Hour 2- September 19, Sarah Horvath

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Streaming live on the Ihearts Radio WIB. This is I
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fifty eight.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. Your Jiginsaunce. Now
we have ray On breaking news.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This is Eye on the Ball Breaking News on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh lovely Friday. No, well every Friday is Every Friday
is good.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
The weather's starting to get a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Yeah, and rain last night. Yeah it was nice. I
was breaking news.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (00:35):
I got to hang out with my door man. Very wow,
last time I got to do that.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
All right.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Starting off with some local news, bad news from the
soccer field, Arizona lost its Big twelve opener conference opener
against Iowa State zero to one.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
So one nil? Is it? Is it proper proper terminology there, Neil, No,
we're not n English.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
The drink coffee not tea.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
At least you're consistent with them with the show not knowing.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
The volleyball team will be playing tomorrow as well. They
got number one Nebraska. They are at number one Nebraska.
Game starts at six and yep.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Even nine of Nebraska is really good at volleyball.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
They're fun to watch too. Yeah, you know, yeah, because
you watch them against the big time PA it's like,
holy crap.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah yeah, And it's their last game before they start
Big twelve. Big twelve plays, So that'll be a that'll
be a big one. Triathlon team, who is the defending
national champions is set to host a meet here tomorrow
starting at nine and will be held at the Hill
and Brand Aquatic Center, so on campus.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
Yeah, that'll that'll be interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's Arizona's first home race in the triathlon, so interesting stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, go watch that man and then wonder how the
hell they do that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
And why yeah, just cardio machines. Yeah serious, I don't
know how she's doing. But there is also a track runner.
Her name is Emma Gates. She is competing at the
World Athletics Championships. She's a high jumper. I'm not sure
if she qualified for Saturday, but you know, if she did,

(02:29):
it is in Tokyo, Tokyo. Yeah. On does some more
national stuff now. Colorado's newest Buffalo, Ralphie the seventh, will
be making her debut. One year old American bison currently
weighs seven hundred pounds.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
And they said that the previous one got retired because
I guess it was a she it was not all
that interested in running.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
That sound a lot like how.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Do you know that? And that was a really funny
comment that they made about Ralphie, so that Ralphie seven
don't make me run? Have you seen have you been?
Have you ever seen that in person? It's crazy, it's
crazy well being being who we are? All right, we're
making fun of the runners. Okay, the guys who are are?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Because they're sitting there, they're in the they're in the end
zone by where the cages or the stable is, and
they're stretching and they're doing all this, and they're in
these cowboy outfits, right jeans, and and I'm like, guys,
just just run with the damn bull or with with
the damn buffalo. Then you saw what they had to
do and how dangerous it is, and I'm like, okay,

(03:42):
there's there's some respect that you got to get there
because those guys, I mean, they haul ass and they
got to keep up. And if they don't keep up,
you're in danger of getting either dragged or or run over.
By a buffalo and and so you know, again we
you know, being who we are, we made fun of them,
but then we saw and there was a ton of
respect for what those guys do when they run with

(04:03):
that that buffalo. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of thing to watch in person.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
So obviously, Arizona football is not playing tomorrow. There are
some good games though, Texas State or Texas Tech. I'm
sorry in Utah to start off, that's a great if
you looked at you I've looked at it, and I'm
I'm staying away from it.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
I just stayed away from it. I think it's I
think it's been a really good game. Was too close
to to even I might throw something on it just
for fun, like an overtree under. You know, I'm not
gonna I'm not going to bet on who's gonna win
that game that Utah. The question is where they throw
an over or under on that one.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Yeah, it's a tough called. Oregon. Oregon Civil War is
also going on.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Oregon State and Oregon will be playing in Eugene, followed
up by Auburn and Oklahoma. Jackson Arnold, who the Wildcats
beating the Alamo will be going against his former.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Going with any of those Oregon Organs to neither of those. Yeah,
I thought Orgon's gonna kill him. But I stayed off
that one.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Well, I thought about Oregon, and then I thought, I
listen to some guys, like they say, be careful on
the big spread, because if if Oregon is up big,
like twenty eight points, thirty five points in early in
the third quarter, they're gonna sit guys down because they
got Penn State next week. And I said, Okay, that's
enough for me to just stay away from it.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, Michigan Nebraska playing too, that's gonna be a good Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Mission by Washington Washington State, yep, yeah, yep, that's nineteen
and a half points. I wouldn't trust kid to cover
that you lost last year. Yeah, and Washington and Washington
State was terrible. They got they got bloodied last week by.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
By a smaller school.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
But yeah, I Toledo or Tulsa or was it two
lane Tulane somebody doing good too? Yeah, think now it
wasn't Tulane. No, it was somebody that. I mean. It
was a terrible loss and a bad one.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
And Baylor also going to be playing at four thirty.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
That should be a good game.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, gonna give you.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm surprised that Baylor is a favorite.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
I'd be taking Baylor if I was.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Where's that at Baylor?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
It's in wake up.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
We'll see. We'll see the next week or so how
strong issue is because they've already filtered once.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Well, and then I think this is a good benchmark
game too.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
And Mississippi State. You think Mississippi State, you know there's
SEC and all that. They're not even good they want
they're their bottom feeder in the SEC.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, so we'll see what happens with them.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, it's gonna be a tough one. I mean tough
one for them. Great to watch though, just without any
rotting interest. This is for amusement purposes only. Yeah. Moving
on to the NFL, Jayden Daniels is going to be
out for the Commanders against the Raiders with a knee injury.
Marcus Mariotta is going to be the starter on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
A lot of those.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah, the quarterbacks just got hurt.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
A bunch of quarterbacks around. US State got beat fifty
nine to ten by North Texas.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Young Way coup with the Falcons kicker was cut. Wow,
and Parker Romo lands a two year contract.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
The first one you mentioned was pretty good. He was
pretty consistent, but I guess he was not consistent enough, dude.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
So, I mean it's three weeks in. I don't know though.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
That's a tough job, Yeah it is. How about the
kick the Cowboys kicker? Yeah, okay, So he hits a
sixty four yarder like a hell of a kick. So
and he's kicking a forty seven yarder and he hit
it like he was hitting the chip shot from off
the green. He didn't even kick it hard. Yeah, he
just went up there and chipped at it and drilled it,
you know, the game winner. And I'm like, he looked

(07:40):
like he was chipping off the green.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
He scores the most points because you can't get into
the end zone.

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well there's that.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Hey, soccer players, man, they're yeah, usually a good kick.
Not usually, but you know he got they got some
power in that leg.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Obviously.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
The big one from last night was the Bills beating
the Dolphins to go three and oh.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Final score was thirty one to twenty one. Buffalo taking
that one at home.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
But I didn't see it.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I got jacked on that I had the under, I
had under fifty and a half. Whis how did they
score the field goal with about fifty forty seconds left?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah? They were never well how they scored?

Speaker 4 (08:15):
They if they get a first down on that last drive,
then they've run out the clock and staid they didn't
get the first down, then they kicked the field and
then flipped the flipped the over under. Damn it.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I mean, I don't know how your heart still ticks.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
It's because it's been built up to handle this tension
over all this time, and so my heart is strong.
It's strong.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
He must walk, he must walk thousands of miles and
keep that heart. No, he spends ten dollars on the
overall it lifts weight.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
How did you know? I just starting He died a
million times. Man, It's not about the amount of money.
It's about the juice.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
What's that.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Ju juice?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's coming out of his teams? Man.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
The Cardinals are going to be playing the San Francisco
forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's another to I didn't touch that one.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Fournits a favorite him there. They've got a backup quarterback. Ye,
I don't even know.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Mac Jones.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Mac Jones, the you know he beat the same backrup guy,
I mean national champion though. And it's one of those
things I think where it's like I think when you
come from like a big school like that, you're used
to having kind of everything set up for you.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
It's kind of like plug and play.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I think that's kind of how it is with
the Niners for mac Jones, where it's like they have
a lot of things set up for him.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
It's just plug and play.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
For him, just go in and do yep.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Interesting, Yeah, we've been talking about it. Kind of Baseball
wild card race is heating up in the National League.
Believe the Reds I think are the ones right outside
trying to chase the Mets down, but they are two
games back. Diamondbacks are too. Obviously they got a they

(10:02):
got a big, big one against the Phillies tonight at
six forty. So that's, uh, that's interesting. That'll be an
interesting one for I don't know, It's it's kind of
like the playing for the planes me like in the
NBAH just like.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
So how many teams are trying to buy.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Six get in three division champions and then three wildcards?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeh yeah, no no, but who's Who's kind of right there.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Oh, in the National League, well the Cubs, the Cubs
are leading the wild Card and then yeah, the Cubs
are in. The Padres are up there, but you got
the Mats and then two big two games back, you
got the Diamondbacks and the Reds three games back are
his Giants. So there's still a race. I mean there's
you know, there's another week to go in the in
the turn in the you know the Dodgers are in

(10:45):
well no they're literally but like they're but they're they
lead the division.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
They'd have to be a pretty big melt down.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
They're KSh place tonight.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Pitches tonight, curshs throwing tonight.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, we got a call. Let's take the call. Hello,
and I and the ball. Who's this is a gym?

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Jim, Jim?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
What's the word? Jim?

Speaker 7 (11:06):
Hey Jay, we're talking baseball. So I wanted to talk
a little bit about the Dodgers starting pitching. Okay, they've
got now that they've got gotten everybody healthy, they've got
a surplus of starting pitchers.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
They do, and still.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
After all these years and all of our complaining that
they still have question marks in the bullpen.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Question marks their bullpen is just death. Well they're talking
about doing that, you know.

Speaker 7 (11:39):
Okay, Jay, Oh sorry, go ahead. Who would you put
into the starting rotation?

Speaker 4 (11:47):
My starters would be this is gonna be kind of funny.
It wouldn't be Kersh. I'd be be Glass Now, Blake Snell,
Show Hey, uh Yamamoto and Motive and and Shean. That's five.

(12:08):
That's five good starters.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Put everybody else in the.

Speaker 7 (12:12):
Let me ask you a question. Would you rather.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Have your most dominant pitcher.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
Pitch in one game or three or four games?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, that the.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Latter, But the starters aren't built to throw three or
four times in a short period of time. That's not
that's not how they're set up.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
You bullpen pictures one guy that's ready to do that.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think I'm gonna cut to the chase.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
Given the problems they've had with their bullpen, I would
not be willing to wager or risk my three hundred million.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Dollar world series run.

Speaker 7 (12:56):
On Tim Scott or whatever day kill me. That guy's
not going to determine whether I win or lose this series.
And I'll tell you who is.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
He.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
You're gonna put show Hey in the bullpen and.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
That who needs to go in the bullpen. We heard
it first on I on the ball. It's a scoop
we need to get. We need to get show Hey
in the in the either the closer or long setup,
or even let him pitch eight to ninth two three times.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
He can do it.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
The only he's the only one. He's the only one
of those guys that has the psyche for youth bother.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
The only thing about that Jim is logistically, if he's
in the batting order and he needs to warm up,
how do you do that? Right? Uh So, just be
difficult logistically for him to do that, because if he's
in the batting order and he needs to warm up,
I mean, how do you do that. Let's say let's
say they want to use him in X inning. You know,

(14:01):
but he's batting, you know, in that inning, or he
just finished batting in that inning. Does he have time
to warm up? Logistically?

Speaker 7 (14:08):
I don't know how that could work.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
I think they've given.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Time to warm up, and I.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Think given that he's been in the game, he probably
won't need as much time.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
To warm Maybe maybe it's just these guys aren't like
Little league shortstops who can just come come.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
Up and short stop short stopped anyway.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
But I I agree with you show he seems to
be the most dominant of those guys to be able
to do that. I just don't know how logistically they
could do that. I would love to see that.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
Your your your logistics question is.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
The big one. Yeah. Yeah, all right, Jim, we gotta
we gotta get out of here. So appreciate the call man.
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Yeah, good one bye?

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Are you good? Yeah? Okay, so we're good. We're gonna
get a hold of uh Sarah Nora.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
See how that all that's going. I love I love
the fact that there's somebody out there who can get
that stuff going. Yeah.

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Speaker 2 (19:23):
Four for d Hey, welcome back to I on the
Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Riverta.
You're Jakinsauce. I went to phone. We have Sarah Horvath,
a director of Quino Sports Complex and the Stadium District. Sarah,
how you doing.

Speaker 12 (19:37):
I'm doing wonderful. How are you guys doing.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
You're doing more than wonderful. You're working magic down there,
magic down there is some big things going on and
in what three weeks. It's going to be really big.

Speaker 12 (19:50):
Right, Yeah. I know, We've got a lot of exciting
stuff coming in October. You know, I keep joking that
I'm not going to basically see home until middle of December,
but yeah, coming up in October, We've got Mexican Baseball
fes Arizona Fall League. Then we go right into twos
on baseball team season, so it's a lot of good
stuff going on.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Sarah, what what attracted you to this job?

Speaker 12 (20:10):
What attracted me to this job? That's a great question.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy, Like I like every
day being different. So my background actually comes from operations
in water parks. I ran large water parks throughout the
United States after graduating from Arizona State University. I went
to you know, Ransom and Phoenix, then in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
then in Waterbury, Connecticut. So I like the operation side,

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I like making people happy. I enjoy the entertainment world.
So all of that was very kind of a natural thing.
So coming over here, and I love sports. I was
an athlete, you know, growing up. I did varsity swimming
through through high school here, so it was just kind
of a mixing of all those worlds.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
And it's home to you, right, it's home to you.
And and we talked a little yesterday about you driving past
the newly built Quino Complex back in the day, and
so I'm sure you know that had something to do
with you coming back.

Speaker 12 (21:02):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (21:02):
So I was born and raised here in Tuson, graduated
from Sabino High School, and so it was I was
gone from two thousand to twenty twelve. But as a
kid growing up, my dad worked at over off of
Ajo at the Thomas Price Service Center. So when I
was growing up, I would drive by seeing the stadium
being built. And I can tell you it's actually very
surreal to have that memory, so like a core memory

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of my childhood and my dad and I talking about
it being built and going under the new bridge, and
then coming back here and now actually working here. So
it's it's been nice. It's been a nice full circle moment.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
So the job, you know, look, I don't envy your
job because it's you know, with this, I mean, it's
a great facility and has a lot of possibilities. You've
got the you've got the Mosaic Quarter going up out there.
But you know, there's not like an anchor. You know,
you've got you've got to f C two song, but
there's not a minor league baseball or spring training or

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something like that. So you know how you know, does
that open doors for you to do a lot of
different stuff or would you rather have something like that
to kind of hang your hat on and then build
around that? Is there is one better than the other.

Speaker 12 (22:06):
So I can tell you I'm a glass half full person,
So I can talk up either one of those sides.
With both, I think there's a lot of opportunity. I mean,
without having a let's call it a quote unquote home
team or an anchor, an anchor team in the stadium,
that gives us flexibility to run all these amazing community
events where we can showcase the stadium. We can have
large concerts, we can have different community type stuff. We
can have a high school team run out of the

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stadium right and have this amazing experience and that. So
that's very cool, but it also has a sad part
that you've got this gorgeous, big stadium sitting there dormant
on many days. Right then on the flip side of it,
having an anchor tenant is absolutely amazing. We're excited to
have twos on baseball team here, which is our new
anchor tenant with the Mexican Pacific Winter League. So that's
been wonderful. But on the flip side of that, we've

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had to deconflict a lot of events that have been
home here for the last ten or twelve years. Then
now all of a sudden, we're running into conflicts based
off their schedule, based off playoff schedules, and so a
lot of the flexibility we had is going away. For example,
one of our most popular things we have with our
parking lots because we don't have any light poles in them,
we don't have solar panels on a lot of them.

(23:10):
We do car racing, we do bike racing, We do
all kinds of different shows and events out there. And
so with us now having the home team, we don't
have this parking space to flex. So both sides are good.
But for me personally, and I think for the staff,
especially our grounds team, they love having a home team
at the stadium.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, it's so. Jay and I have been here a while.
Jason native, so he knows a lot about the say,
he was in government as well, but yesterday, and my
story today was more about, you know, how this all happened.
But what Blake and I talk about often more than often,
is the marriage that you guys kind of have started
with everybody kind of pulling the rope to one side

(23:48):
and helping everybody make things like this successful. You know,
in the past, we know that hadn't been the case.
Right now it's happening with so many people, all e yourself, eager,
the visit touson. How does that feel?

Speaker 12 (24:05):
It feels amazing. I was gonna say you almost feel
high at times, but you do. You get out of
some of these meetings and they're so inspirational. Because what
I love about the group that we have right now
very much the sky is the limit. But we also
have a lot of realistic experience in all of our
backgrounds where we can say, oh my god, that'd be amazing.
But let's talk about you know, operationally what this looks like,
or logistically or financially, you know this and that. But
you have all of these really great people that have

(24:27):
unique skill sets, and there's no egos in the room.
And that's something we've talked about a lot. When all
of us get together and me, And you've got all
these people that are amazing in their own right, and
no one has an ego. It's not about me getting credit,
it's not about you getting credit. You know one person
that I constantly look up to him I'm so impressed
by is Kim Adaire with Arizona Ble and Kim. I mean,
she built a ticketing system for US for World Baseball Classic.

(24:51):
Kim's never built a ticketing system with seat geek in
her life, and she leaned hard into it. She learned
how to do it, she did everything. I remember I
was asking her some questions, you know, oh, how do
you do this and that? And she's like, I just
taught myself this year. But she did it for the
good of the sports community in southern Arizona. And she
is one example of everybody doing that. Ray Flores leans
and with stuff all the time. So it's just this

(25:13):
really passionate, vibrant thing that's going on right now, and
we just want to keep that momentum going. And we're
trying to look at ways do we formalize this, do
we keep it kind of as a loose alliance where
we've got this going, What does the future look like?
Because we don't want to lose a momentum that we have.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Well, that's one of the things that we've talked about recently.
You know, Steve and I were both at this chamber
event about a month or so ago where all the
sports teams and organizations were all in one place and
all cheering each other. And it was the U of A,
and it was the Roadrunners, and it was FC two
so on, it was the Sugar Skullscuse. Everybody was there,
and he did have that feeling of one when everybody

(25:49):
was kind of, as Steve said, pulling the rope in
one direction. There, everybody was behind everybody instead of competing, right,
competing for the ticket, for the dollar, for the advertiser,
for the sponsor, whatever. And I don't know that we've
had that feeling among all these organizations before, h maybe
the last year or two.

Speaker 12 (26:09):
Right, And I was at that event, and I remember,
I mean, we are a sports town. That's you know,
it was kind of the moniker that night of what
we kept talking about, We're a sportstown. I was sitting
with Donna Peterson with MLB, and I can tell you
she actually told me during the event that she got
chills because she's like, I do not see this up
in Phoenix. I don't see where everybody is just rooting
each other on and you don't have these lines drawn
in the sand. And she was talking about how amazing
that was. I get asked all the time about Mosaic Quarter.

(26:32):
You know, Oh, were you worried about Mosaic Quarter being competition?
Are you worried about this? Absolutely not. Mosaic Quarter is
only going to elevate southern Arizona and give us another
arm that we have to go ahead and bring in
more sports tourism, which is an economic driver for the region.
I mean sports tourism, the money behind it and visit
Touson can talk to you for hours about this. That

(26:52):
is huge. And so I just see Mosaic Quarter, this
public private partnership that we have as another arm to
up our sports tourism. And we know we're going to
be in plannings meetings with them Kemo Sports Complex about
how we can co host events, how we can compliment
one another, how we can also not compete with each
other on the same weekend for different resources. So a
lot of that's going to be happening between us and
m Q and then you just bring all of the

(27:14):
rest in and so it's it's a great time to
be here. And I can't tell you how much I
appreciate you guys also helping elevate this message to Tucson.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
So let me just give you a quick thing. Nobody
is listening to us. So do you have any breaking
newsen queens and anything coming up there? We might be
able to sneak in there.

Speaker 12 (27:34):
I don't not anything that I can't that I can
publicly right now.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
I know.

Speaker 12 (27:41):
Look is that why?

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Well? Let me let me ask you about the about
the stadium because I think people who who see it
and you know, you go buy and it's always in
great shape and all that.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
It looks fantastic. It looks it looks great.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
How do you guys manage to keep that up? If
there there's you know, between you know, these things are
going on. You know, like you said, there's not a
baseball team that's there every day, right, so you know,
how how is the county able to keep to keep
it looking so great? You know, with not the year
around activity on it that you would hope there would

(28:18):
be on it.

Speaker 12 (28:20):
Well, honestly, one of the reasons that looks so great
is because there isn't your round activity on it. I
mean I say that jokingly but also on a serious side.
So grass when it gets played on every single day,
you can only ask so much of real grass blades, right,
So part of it is that we don't have a
ton of play on it. But along with that, even
if we do have a ton of play, our ground
team can keep up with it. We've been maintaining, I

(28:40):
can tell you honestly, we've been maintaining the stadium at
the same level we maintain what we call our backfields.
But now that we have this new twoth On baseball
team and we now have one person who he is
dedicated to the stadium. And not that only one persons
doing the maintenance, right, but that's his baby, right, so
he's been dedicated to You walk the field every single
day every year, checking the sprinkler heads every You're doing

(29:00):
this every day. So we now are kind of shifting
our resources a bit to actually put more attention on
to elevate it more. We are our ground team here.
We have a gentleman that's going to be retiring here
after thirty years coming up in about two weeks. We
have a lot of our ground team that's been here
for twenty twenty five years, thirty years, that they just
know what they're doing. Man, you go out there and
you talk to them and you'll be like, hey, you know,

(29:20):
I noticed this, and they're like, oh, yeah, no, we're
aready on top of that. We're doing this, We're doing this.
It is a true science out here, and the way
they've been able to maintain it is just dedication. They've
got a plan, they know what they're doing. It's wrote
memory for a lot of the items. So I got
to give it to the team.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
So again, we've been here a long time. We complain
a lot on the show about people in this town,
and we love we're people in this town. But people
showing up at places, at places like this where games
you brought it to them, They say, we have no baseball.
You brought it to them. Come on, now, show up
any tricks of the trade that you're going to try
to get them in the stands that specific day on October.

Speaker 12 (29:57):
Eleventh, Right, so October eleventh, I think October eleventh and
on I'm going to talk about this twofold. October eleventh
and on October sixteenth is when we roll out to
some baseball teams so October eleventh. Our big thing that
we're trying to roll out is we're trying to reach
out back to our schools. We had a phenomenal response
during World Baseball Classics. By working with the school's superintendent's office,

(30:17):
with Pima County, with Dustin William's office to really reach
out to the schools and to get that portion of it.
We're also trying to get first responders as well. We're
trying to reach out through a bunch of different avenues,
and I think there is some excitement that this is
now the second MLB sanctioned event that we've had in
twenty twenty five, where I think people are kind of like, oh,
all right, so maybe there's something going on over there.

(30:38):
So we're really going to be pushing that message out.
We just hired a community Engagement manager here at Chemo
Sports Complex. We've never had one before. That's a newly
created position we were able to do. He started here
about about four weeks ago. He comes from Minor league
baseball and he also comes from our Pema County communications team,
so he blends those two together like he really knows
how to get things done in the county. He also

(30:59):
knows baseball, so we're leaning hard into him and some
of the other folks that we know on how we
can get the messaging out. So there's that, and then
if I can talk just briefly about Tucson baseball team
with them, We've had a lot of meetings with the ownership,
and what we're trying to do there is to blend
the two cultures. We want those Mexican baseball fans to
come out because it's its own unique blend and diversity
of their sport, which it is a hoot and it's

(31:21):
fun to go to. But we're also trying to blend
that with the American tradition, you know, the seventh inning stretch,
all that type of stuff, so that we're getting both crowds.
We want twos on to feel like it's ours and
Tucson we're a perfectly blended community. I mean, we're about
almost fifty to fifty, you know if you look at
where our blend is across the board, and so we
just want everyone to feel like it's part of them.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Well, Steve and I are wondering how we didn't get
asked to apply for that job. Because I actually I'd
like to know who is the person that that got
that the community game.

Speaker 12 (31:54):
His name his name is Aaron Hodge, and he's absolutely phenomenal.
He works with our Pemac County communication team. He also
worked with a local beer distributor here for a short time,
but after college he worked back east in minor league baseball.
So no, he he happened to be in the right
place at the right time, and he just kept showing
up and you know, showing us a skill set, and
we thought, my god, we've got to have you.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Sure there's a catch here though, because I met him asterday.
A really good guy, very knowledgeable. And here's the catch.
We know, yes, but he's he works alongside Anthony Jimino,
so we've oh yeah, we don't want to do that.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, okay, everyone.

Speaker 12 (32:32):
Got their cross. Everyone got their cross to there. No,
Anthony Demio is wonderful. He loved working with him too.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Yes, yes, he's like our little brother. Yeah he is, yes,
no good. Hey, by the way, I just checked off
whot on my scorecards. No one's ever used that word
on the show, So thank you very much. Oh real
quick prices on tickets And you said yesterday. You're hoping
on October eleventh that eight thousand people come for three

(32:59):
games or at least.

Speaker 12 (33:00):
A Yeah, we're hoping for spread of eight thousand between
the three games. We are fully aware that there is
a U of A game in town. I can tell you,
even though I'm a Sun devil, I actually I grew
up here, I still love you of A, which I
realize is a complete mess up in my head. Of
the two, we'll recognize that U of A.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
I'm going to tell you have a second strike against
Okay that you went to Sabino because I went to Sowaro.

Speaker 12 (33:23):
I went to far my freshman year. Okay, but then
I opened enrolled because they had a better swim team.
So I'm trying to go that route. We'll allw it.
So that being said, yeah, we are hoping to get
an eight thousand spread. Myself and Donna Peterson set that
as a goal for the two of us pretty early
in the process. So for Arizona Fall League, you know,

(33:43):
a two thousand person game for them is a really
great item because they have so many of them in
such a compact period of time. They're doing three games
a day up there in Phoenix, right. So it's not
like it's a once a week thing where you get
these high attendance levels. They get kind of the lower
consistent attendance levels. But we think here, since it's a
one time in Tucson for this year, we think that
we can hit eight thousand over three games.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, very good. Tickets strike twenty bucks, right, I.

Speaker 12 (34:05):
Think they're twenty bucks.

Speaker 13 (34:06):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
And you can also get a three series path if
you want to come and stay for the whole day
and check it out. Okay, it's super affordable. We're gonna
have We're gonna have beer, so I mean come out.
The weather should be good. I mean it should be
really nice by that time.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yeah, yes, yes.

Speaker 12 (34:20):
Yep, we're very hopeful for that.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Great. Great to talk to you. Got to have you
in studio sometime soon. Talk more about all this stuff
going on, because it's it's a change. It's a change.
We feel the change.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Well. The thing is it's such a you know, from
from where from where we sit, right, it's such a refreshing. No,
it's such a valuable uh property or a complex. I mean,
there's so much to be able to do there. To
make use of it is important for this community, and
and so I'm glad to hear that you guys are
working hard to get more and more stuff going over there.

Speaker 12 (34:52):
It really is and thank you guys for coming on.
I'd love to come in studio sometime. And I one
of my favorite things that we do here is our
water conservation program, and which I know doesn't sound that exciting,
but if I tell you about it, it actually is
one of the coolest things we do here. With our
Kurt project. There's just so many neat intricacies to Keno
that I knew I worked at the county for fourteen
years before coming on, but even more that I've learned here.

(35:12):
So I can just tell you all the good news
about you know, all the fun unique events we have.
Love to come in and chat.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Great, Sarah, thank you very much, appreciate your time, grant
you talk to you all right? Well yeah, great, great,
great fun. So if you see it and you've been
down there one thousands again.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
It's such a it's such a great facility. I mean, okay,
if you if you want to argue about where it's
in a class a facility for this town that needs
to be used.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
And here's another thing, there's more stuff down there to
do to eat.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeah, you have more stuff going on over there with
the with the bridges over there and all that stuff.
So so the marketplace whatever you call.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
It, and now comes the time of oh man, fun
and shame.

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Speaker 2 (40:07):
Hey, welcome back to I'm about here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera your Jenkins awas got ready
at the controls. You can still call us to be
like this is the portion of the show where we
make some picks.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Have you ever had that feeling when you're sitting down
for a meal and you know you're just about to
eat something it's gonna make you throw up? That's how I.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
I But I got to eat.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, you gotta eat it, but you're gonna throw up
when you're done. So that's how bad this has been. Well,
not as bad as was two or three years ago.
Is not yet that was the team badness for a
whole season.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
This is only three weeks, so you go first.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
All right, just to get you know, to get it
out there for everybody. Steve's killing me. He's got fourteen
points in the first two weeks, the first three weeks.
Two of those were perfect weeks. I've got five, so
I'm six for nine. I'm six wins, nine losses in
my picks. He's twelve and three so against against and
all these are against the spread. So Steve's just killing it.

(41:13):
I mean, the fact that I've only got five is
bad enough. But then Steve's you know, going off. So anyways,
all right, so I'm gonna start. This is one of
those games that I'm I took it more because I
feel I know one team and I don't know anything
about the other, and I'm gonna take b YU. They're
giving six and a half at East Carolina. You know,

(41:33):
East Carolina's played a couple of kind of games. I
got beat by North Carolina State, who I don't think
is very good. B YU I think is just good,
and they're one of the teams that I think can
win the league. So I'm taking them. It's under a touchdown.
So I'm gonna go b YU over East Carolina.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
And they're coming here in about a month.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Yes, they are on October eleventh. Then when we were
talking about Sarah Horbratt.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Okay, okay, we don't even know the time yet, right well, no, no, okay,
you want with college to go with college as well? Uh,
I'm gonna go with TCU minus seven over s f U.
Do you like that one?

Speaker 4 (42:08):
I like the game.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
I don't know if I like the spread.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
It's at TCU too, so TCU at home. Some of you,
I'm not sure how good they are so yeah, minus
seven the number whatever.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
All right, Uh, this is this is one where I
just feel there's all this hoopla right now around cal
There they're three, and oh they're pretty good. Who do
they play San Diego Steak? It's at San Diego State.
But that's like going to you know, it's like a

(42:39):
high school crowd in Cal's giving twelve and a half. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna take cal I think that you know,
they're they're on, they're on a little bit of a role.
They haven't been good in a while. They're all fired up,
and I, you know, am giving twelve on the road
and half on the rest. But I know, but you know,

(43:00):
my daughter will be really mad. My daughter will be
really mad at me for taking you know, because she's
at San Diego State, for taking this. But I saw
San Diego State play early in the year, and I
think Caln can go down there and kick kick their butts.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Okay, I'm gonna jump on a bandwagon that you took
last week for no other reason. No, they're better than
with this show. Notre Dame. Yeah, twenty five and a
half over I can't remember now, but twenty five he
needed to win. They need to win.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
They need to win. I don't know if they got win.
I just I'm just not that impressed with them offensively.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Well, last week when he picked Notre Dame, do we
have a call?

Speaker 6 (43:37):
No, it was Purdue. I wasn't here last week.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Okay, because you asked me about it though, about his
pick Notre Dame. Didn't you on that Saturday?

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Yeah, on Friday it was a m.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah, and you see you said something about your head
and lawan. Yet it was only one game.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
Yeah, they hadn't want to he lost.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I think it was yeah, And I said, yeah, I'm
not sure why you went with that game and then
they lost to Texas.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Didn't realize that that game, Yeah, I got, I got.
That was a terrible It was a terrible thing that
happened at the end of that game for me. So anyways, okay,
all right, Notre Dame five and a half agins Purdue.
My lock. I'm jumping on the Miami Florida but bandwagon

(44:21):
with this one. Giving seven and a half to Florida.
I think Florida is just not any good and Miami's
Miami's out there making statements, heard a lot of talk
this week about the fact that Mario Cris of Baal
not only does he want to win this game, he
wants to beat the living crap out of Florida for
recruiting purposes and things like that, and the fact that

(44:41):
they can. There's some people say that they've got the
best offensive line and the best defensive line in the
country and uh listening to Bear the Bear, Chris Filica
his his best bed of the weekend is to take
Florida is under total at twenty one and a half.

(45:03):
He said, there's no way Florida's scoring twenty one points
and Miami's gonna put a forty on him. So I've
taken Miami as my luck.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Reached the point of the season. He's starting to get
help from both of people.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
To all of these I'm getting a lot of help
from all these guys.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I almost took Duke.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
From listening to somebody, but I said, no, I like
I like the cow game a little bit better.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
J.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Steve. If I listen to myself, this is where I
am six and nine.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
We've played this lead together and rus being on the show,
I know exactly how you. I love it.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
It's awful, man, It's awful. I'm lost. I'm wandering in
the I'm wandering in the forest. I got no direction whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
You need to leave I do?

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I need to like some bread crumbs or something, man,
because I am just completely lost.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
But then they're gonna say, does ja poop in the woods?

Speaker 4 (45:57):
We don't know many.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
So I'm gonna hey, Rick, I love you man like
you said you love me. I'm going with green Bay
over Cleveland in the half. I think that green Bay
has shown pretty good, but Cleveland's just not very good.
It's more Cleveland being bad than yeah good.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
The only thing I worry about the Browns is that
their defense isn't horrible. So eight and a half seems
like a lot for me on that.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
But that's a very popular pick in our games. Okay, yeah,
because it's kind of obvious. Yeah, and that's what scares me.
It's too obvious. But yeah, day and a half, eight
and a half. It's and a half win by nine,
babies win by nine.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
All right. I'm taking this one because I think one
team is really bad and I'm just betting on the
fact that they're really bad, and I'm taking the Seahawks
at home giving seven to the Saints. I think the
Saints are terrible. I mean the forty nine ers beating
with Mac Jones last week and you know in New Orleans.

(46:55):
So I'm thinking, Okay, I think the Saints are just
that bad. So I'm gonna take the Seahawks in Seattle outdoors,
probably a little chili, maybe rainy. I think Seattle I
think kills them. So I'm gonna take the take the seven,
giving the seven there. Okay, you know what, I didn't
pick my I think this will be my lock. I

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think this will be my lock.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Okay, So sticking with the NFL, I'm going with the
Chiefs about six and a half over the Giants. I
think it is. There'll be my lock. You can't they
can't lose into the game. They cannot perform badly three
weeks in a row. They've got to show something. And
here's the lock. Because they're better than what they are.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
I say, I'm afraid to take a team like that
because I'm just like, they need to win. They should win.
They finally, it's like when I it's like when I started.
It's like when I bet the Dodgers against the Angels
in a series. Okay, they lost this one, they got
to win today, then they lost that. Well, they got
to win today and then and I'm like, what the
hell you think the Chiefs? You're you're right, I mean

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you think that at some point the Chiefs have gotta
have gotta have gotta win. But you know, again, that's
in New York. The hell knows, maybe the Chiefs have
just lost it now potential.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Okay, So that's my lock.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
All right, So that's your lock. So okay, so this
next game is the game that we both have to pick.
It's our special game. It's uh, San Diego. It's the
Broncos at the Chargers. The Broncos are getting two and
a half. What I hoping you don't pick what I'm
taking the Chargers. Okay, I got the Chargers too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
I think I think this is as.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
I think the Charges are really good. Me too. I
think I think I think there's.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
One thing about He's a damn good coach.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
He really is. He's a really good coach, and he's
got a really good quarterback playing for you who can
do all the things that Harball wants him to do.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And not to say the Broncos aren't any good, because
but being if this game was in Denver, a different story,
different story, but in San Diego, in LA I.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Agree with you.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
I feel like is regressing a little bit too, you
think so, Yeah, Oh, I mean it's just because, like
he played Tennessee, you only went by eight, you know.
I mean, yeah, it's more than seven, but it's still
really just a one possession game. If they hit the
two point and then you know, that's just a penalty
you can't have, like in going against the Colts, like
that's a penalty you can't have. Yeah, and I don't

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know the defense wasn't as top shape as it was
or as it was as advertised.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Yeah, yeah, no. I I like the Chargers. I've liked
to Why can't you think of the quarterbacks name Justin Herbert,
Justin Herber. I liked him since we saw him play here.
You know, I.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Reminded to get to seven today when he goes home.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
I really like him, and I feel like and I
feel like almost like he's underachieved, like you feel like
he should have been better. But I feel like this
year he looks like he's just got a lot of confidence.

Speaker 19 (49:58):
And it's not his fault, right, it's not as Faull
BECAUSEZI team right, and and the system is it fits him,
no Harbor, Like you said, Harbaugh, he'll do what his
players are good at.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
And and he's a good coach. Yeah, he's a good coach.
So we'll see. We've got the picture. You have them
labeled there. He'll post those.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
I guess making public. I just now, I just no
worse than for, no worse than for it's awful. You
gotta go. Okay, Thanks Ray, Thanks Ray. If you want
to pay your tuition, go ahead and pay attention to
some of these.

Speaker 6 (50:31):
Most of the years.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I guess we'll see he gets he gets sometimes that
that bear in the woods finds the finds them.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
He finds the honey boy, blind squirrel, blind squirrel.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Okay, thanks everybody for the good week. We'll talk to
you guys Monday.