Thursday, June 12, Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
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Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta. In with me
today is Dave Silver Back to back? Hello, Dave, back
to back? Goad to be back again? Yes, yes, we
love to talk about. Have we got Ray handling the board?
Oh yeah, I hate handling that board. Too many teams
to look at going away, coming back, blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Just good to have someone who can handle it. Yes,
Dave's kind of like those screws up a. We're gonna
be on right. Yeah. Well, welcome everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
If you want to call, please do five two zero,
four one, six seventy four forty. We've gone some pretty
good calls. We had pretty good day yesterday, Dave. Yeah,
good callers.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
What's going on? Good?

Speaker 6 (00:56):
Good guess I know. We got good guests again today. Yeah,
lot to talk about. I mean baseball. Great to have
you a baseball still for this next week or so at.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Least, right right, so we'll see what happens. They played
tomorrow at eleven o'clock, we have Tommy Lloyd. We did
you kind of screw queue that up. Screw that up,
queue that up, just kind of go to YouTube.

Speaker 7 (01:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Tommy Lloyd talked about a lot of things today. He's
going to coach the younger groups that you you eighteen eighteen, yeah,
in Colorado Springs and then go to Switzerland with the team.
You know, Tommy was being Tommy a little snarky in
a good way.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Doesn't he have a couple of the recruits are going
to be part of that team.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
He's gonna be on the team. He's gonna be on that team,
or he's going to try out to be on the team.
But we'll make it. Yes, I think you'll make it
very good team. So we'll look at that. His thing
today lot went. We went everywhere for like thirty minutes.
A lot of different topics from the media that was there,
from the people returning, the people who.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Left, his roster. I asked him about the roster.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I asked him about the the possibility of any of
the Internet players having difficulty coming in to the United
States to play. He says he was not sure about
that until it happens right, you don't know untill know,
but they're doing everything they can to get them on campus.
I think a couple have already here. Yeah help, yeah there.
So they don't know exactly, but that's part of it.

(02:21):
A lot of different things than the roster, I mean,
not the roster. The schedule. Did you see that? It
came out today? The official schedule, at least some of
the key things. I didn't see it. I missed it.
Did they come in an email? I'm not on the
email list. You go see apparently get everything. And I
didn't see it in an email. So why don't you
go to Asy Desert Swarm if you could? And maybe

(02:42):
because they're playing Kansas twice? He talked about that and
b Yu twice, right, and you know my boy Bruce
who asked the questions that are crazy, he says, you know,
you know he talked about that and said, well, everybody
has it tough because everybody kind of plays each other.
Go to the easy detish one. Maybe they just to
see if if they talk about the schedule.

Speaker 8 (03:06):
So I like just on the Twitter, I don't have
a like schedule with dates, but it gives you the
home and the ways for the conference.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes, is that from the conference? Yeah, okay, maybe maybe
the conference. You're gonna play Kansas twice this time. Yeah,
that's good. Yeah, that's good. And but he said, you know,
they're a pretty good good program. I'm gonna try to
paraphrase and not be stupid. Paraphrase, are a pretty good program.
But we know who runs the roost now, Houston.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Houston.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's a it's an Eastern Texas team that they have
to surpass. You know, Kansas was good, that's not today,
it's Houston.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's true.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
I mean, obviously the conference was quite good this last year. Yes,
Iowa States also in the mix there, in the top ten,
I think, yeah, most of the season. So yeah, it
turned out to be kind of as we expected. But
there's no easy easy weekend. Actually talks about that easy
games at all.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, exactly. He talked about that being, you know, the
non conference being crazy good. But he says, yeah, the
conference is going to be just as good as it
is what it is.

Speaker 8 (04:05):
Did he say anything about going to a tournament this year,
the NCAA tournament, No, like a preseason tournament.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh no, no, no no, because they're playing too many
good teams. They opened the season with Florida, right November.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, yeah, they're not going to play any kind of
turn Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
November third, I think that's a Monday. I think that's
like the weekend after the Breeders Cup, so it's going
to be kind of busy. And then November December, so
we're waiting for the official announcement from U of A.
But that that one came from the Big twelve. Yeah,
that you're seeing.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Oh no, it came from the U of eight.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
Like it's just showing the Big twelve opponents though, like
ol coman, who's away?

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Or did you get who? Did you see that twitter
on their schedule on the website?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Twitter?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Twitter? Yeah, the all important Twitter. It's the fastest thing, man,
did you see it? I'm just looking at some of
the games.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, I mean Florida first November third in Vegas and
they play UCLA in Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's going to be at the Clippers. What day is that?

Speaker 6 (04:58):
November fourteen? Fourte one of that and then Yukon on
the road.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's it's gonna be fun Vegas that you.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
And then Auburn here which will be a big game,
and then Alabama in Birmingham. So won't be on campus,
but it'll be in yeah, in the state, in San
Diego State, in Phoenix. And then that's it. Well, these
are game. It's on December twentieth, before Christmas. Yeah remember that.
You remember the Christmas game always with loot Oh oh yeah,

(05:29):
the December twenty third, twenty four or twenty yeah, second
that week right before Christmas.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Never could win, could win, they always it didn't matter
who they played. Yeah, we want to get the hell
out of Dodge and and and get out and come back.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yeah, okay, it'll be good to have the astecs. My
my school will be playing. So yeah, they've had pretty
good games in the last decade. They have been the finals,
what two three years? Well, yeah, they made the championship game.
It almost won the thing. Now they're gonna play in Phoenix.
Kind of a I guess I'll these are all like
made for TV situations. But yeah, it's gonna be a

(06:04):
great non conference, right and then on then you turn
right into the did.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
You is it on the on the press conference from
from him today?

Speaker 8 (06:13):
Yeah, it's on there. It's just I just don't know,
like if the sound's gonna come through. Oh, on the
on the on here. Okay, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I've just never you've never done it, Okay, okay, do
it like a caller. I think that's what I was
told to do. A caller calls in and you put
it to that microphone and it'll pop in.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
But we won't do it now. We'll do it later.
Only have time. I'll try it, like on the break
or something.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, okay, So to mention the break, we'll go to
break in about five minutes probably. Yeah, we're gonna have
Jerry Stitt at three seventeen, former U of A baseball coach,
assistant coach and the head coach after after Kendle, he.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
Was on the He was on the staff obviously when
when Chip won the championship in eighty six.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
He was one of the assistant.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Coaches along with Jim Wing I was one of the
one of the greatest coaching staffs in college baseball history
of Kendle and yeah and Wing instead.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Another good guy.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, another good guy, very bookish, very bright Jerry, Yeah, yeah,
is it am I correct?

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I think so? Yeah, very very studious he was. He
was just a great hitting coach.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
That was kind of this thing, you know, win was
the pitching coach, and Jerry Stitt was the hitting coach,
and they, together with the leadership of Jerry Kendall, had
it working for a long long time.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, it's funny because you know, you and I played
a game or two softball, baseball, whatever it was many
years ago and hosting a pool hitter. I pushed it
to write and I asked, Frank Cota, can you teach.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Me that hit? How do you?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
If I had that answer, Steve, I'd be you know,
because it's so difficult, right, but you know there's an
art to it. There's an art to it, and Jerry state,
I guess and Francota could probably teach a lot of
people how to hit.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Well, I mean it was interesting because both baseball and
softball had had really good hitting coaches at one point.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
I'm sure they still do. But when we were recovering them.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Who's the baseball Larry Ray was, oh yeah, yeah, football
coaches and he was like the master of the swinging
bunch whatever they call you, lefty slapers, the slappers. So
he was I mean, he was like world famous for that.
They would have kids from all over the world would
come in and learn from him and back in the day.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
That was how you play. You don't try to move
base to base, you know.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
It doesn't do as much I don't think, I mean
every but all the most teams seem to have, you know,
somebody who.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Can do it, right.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
He eventually got a job at Florida and then got
released there afterwards. Yeah, yeah, Larry Ray. Yeah, So we'll
have Jerry still at three seventeen. It will be good
to talk to him. And at four seventeen we're going
to have who do we talk about, Oh, Dave road Roady.
He was mentioned yesterday with our guy Clark christ Right,

(08:45):
So Dave Roady's going to be on at three four seventeen.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
You know how many errors he had in his major
league career three years? How many tickets? One?

Speaker 5 (08:54):
One?

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Really?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, I totally guess because I probably how I asked
the question. Yeah, yeah, because he was so steady with
the glove, you know, nothing got by him. So we'll
talk about that in the u of A. The u
of a's presence in the World Series.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, it's exciting, it really is.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
I think it's always good to be playing kind of
at the end of the season when that's really the
only game in town, and people are going to be
paying attention. It's not like they're going to be stuck
on you know, ESPN plus, you know, in the middle
of the afternoon somewhere here they are. It's going to
be on the big ESPN. And we'll see how they do.
If they win, they well, they're they're definitely not going
to play Saturday. Everything goes up to Sunday. They win,

(09:30):
they play at one time. If they lose, they play
it one time on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
So eleven o'clock, first game probably of the whole series
game ye against the team, and there are other underdogs
going in.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Still underdogs. You're gonna put some money on a U
of A so we can. Yeah, we'll line to change.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
But no, that's that's Jay's job. Okay, you got to
go the other way with it so they can.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
By the time you guys hit the air tomorrow, it'll
be over.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well that Jay might do it today, you know, or not,
So we'll see what happens. What you got everything, Ray,
did you find it? You found it right, So we'll
do that later. Yeah, we'll do that later. Anything else,
Senor David Silver.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
No, just looking forward to talking to the coach and
talking to to Dave Roady about his his time as
a Wildcat. No, it's just another chapter in Arizona baseball.
Hopefully it's something that you know, extends into next week
at least and they can get through the weekend and
start seeing maybe maybe facing LSU somewhere along the line
with the old coach or UCLA or Oregon State teams

(10:30):
that you know they're somewhat familiar with having just played
them the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
Sure.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Sure, it's definitely got a little West Coast flavor. And
again some of the teams that were used to seeing
and that tournament are not there, so it's kind.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Of wide open. I had it.

Speaker 8 (10:43):
I thought about this earlier because you know, everybody's making
a point of you know, three old Pack twelve teams
getting in like a couple only a couple of SEC teams.
How much do you think like And it was one
of those things in college football too, where it was
like the Pac twelve, the pack always just eighty like
itself up, you know what I mean. I could get
to the championship game and like the favorite to go

(11:04):
to the playoffs would get upset and like.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
They would or no football football, But so do you
like do you? I don't know.

Speaker 8 (11:13):
It's just it's it's funny to see it now because
it's like now that they don't have to play each other,
they don't beat on each other, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Is that a thing? Is that what you're trying to
think that now?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
It could be? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, well they're in the Big two Big Oregon States
by itself, right, uh, pack twe and or the Big
ten right right, that's a possible especially in baseball.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Baseball was such a difficult.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Yeah, yeah, Big twelve is a pretty good baseball conference,
better than I thought it was gonna be. And Arizona
what they finished fourth, and it kind of stumbles a
little bit at the end. But some of those teams
are pretty decent. West Virginia, Cincinnati, Houston, No, I guess
Houston wasn't very good, but those others, he was good.
But yeah, they managed to get through.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
To your point.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Probably in baseball, I don't know, but in foot Paul
they were not good. They were not that good. I
just at least by the naked eye and what they did,
they weren't that good. You know, usc maybe every time
every now and again. But yeah, it was not like
basketball where they beat up each other and they got
ready for the what it was ahead.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
I thought it was amazing in Arizona, you know, going
on the road in baseball here and getting through both
these you know, the regional and super regional on the
road and teams home fields.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
I mean, that was pretty impressive. I mean we're kind
of like it's.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Happened so fast you don't even have a chance to
kind of, you know, look at it.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
From a distance. But I mean that was that was
very impressive.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
In Oregon, well, I don't know what crowd you hang
out with, Dave, and I know the crowd I hang
out with what.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Your old older dudes. I don't have a crowd you do.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
So so a bunch of older dudes who don't talk
about baseball. Just what they're talking about baseball because you know,
no one pays attention to you to really do really well.
They couldn't tell you whose short start. I couldn't tell you,
But now you know I'm doing it because of the show.
But before it was like, oh that baseball team pretty good.
Well you never asked me about that a month ago. Now,

(13:04):
and that's not a criticism. It's just how this city is. Right,
you don't pay attention to until you till you have
the news all of.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
A sudden, you know, a top story.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Right.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
It's interesting too because when they're on TV all of
a sudden, like I had no idea what even these
guy's even looked like. Right, No, I know that the
games have been on here and there, but you know
there's just something special when they get on you know,
national TV, and you learn about them and their hometowns
and their stats and their history and the stories it
will be coming out that many many of us probably
had no idea about until tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's funny. I'm not like Jake because Jay's over the
top with this. You know, he's a guy who you know,
you walk out and if you're six foot five and
you you look good in the uniform, he says, God,
that guy must be a good player.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Give me a five foot ten dude who looks like this,
grunty dude who can play scrappy dude. So yesterday they
they were the first team in Omah out of their
bus and do you remember bad newspapers coming out of
their and they kind of look like ragtag group. This
team was just a bunch of dudes. This a bunch
of dudes. Like, how is this team a good team?
Because they're good players? Yeah, And it goes to my

(14:05):
point again as I always try to do. Everyone says,
if you dress good, you look good, you play good.
Just give me dudes that can play. Yeah, does it
make sense? Nough for sure?

Speaker 4 (14:14):
And you played wrestle against those dudes? Yeah yeah, I
mean he looked tough. But guess what, Yeah, they're tall,
that's right, they're dogs.

Speaker 8 (14:22):
No, yeah, man, so and that's just how sports is,
you know what I mean exactly. It's like you see
upsets all the time, and that's why we love it.
That's why loves it.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
You know, how did that big dude get beat? Because
the other dude was tougher? Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (14:34):
It's like you see like this big old, you know,
kind of chubby gag getting into the ring box. Yeah yeah,
with a six pack. Yeah, and it's just like, yeah, it's.

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Tough to beat a whale, then gonna get through that
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This is I on the ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
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Speaker 3 (19:49):
FI the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty part Steve
Rivera in with me to day.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Dave Silver Now on the phone.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
We have former You have a baseball coach assistant coach
Jerry Stitt now the assistant a d at Pima coach.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (20:06):
You're good? Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Of course we love having you on. You've been on
a few times. This must be a pretty good time
for Jerry Stitt. You know you have a program there
at Pima that did a fantastic job this year in sports,
and then you get to see your former school do
really well.

Speaker 15 (20:25):
Right now, Yeah, yeah, first to go with the Wildcats. Yeah,
it's and this is one of the things that the
Wildcats face, not not to correct you, but it's it's
never my former school.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's still my.

Speaker 15 (20:45):
I'll always be a Wildcat, the old born and bred
be a Wildcat.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
So I'm dead that one. That's me. That's that's how
we feel about it. You know, we're very proud of.

Speaker 15 (20:59):
The Wildcat, Chip and the whole staff and everything those
guys have done.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
It's been incredible.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
It's been so cool to see Chip, you know, rise
to this level and you've known him. Did you help
recruit him here as a player back what in nineteen
eighty one ish?

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Yes, I helped.

Speaker 15 (21:17):
Uh, it was mainly coach Waning that got him. Uh,
he was up scouting Dave Carly. He was he was
a six nine right hander playing high school teammate at
Chips and they're playing summer ball and Coach Wing went
up to.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
See him and and he's watching.

Speaker 15 (21:40):
Carly and and from the minute he got to the park,
he couldn't take his eyes off Chip and and he
told old coach Kennel, we got to get this guy.
You know, he's he's going to be a great one
and h And we got both of them, carly And
and Dave, carly And and UH and Chipper and Uh.

(22:00):
And he came in and started every game played ever
he came from his freshman year through what.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Was what do he have?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
What did Wing seeing him back then?

Speaker 5 (22:13):
You know, he was one of those guys.

Speaker 15 (22:14):
And you know, I've done a lot of clinics of
all sides all over the country and and internationally, and
and that's one of the.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Questions I get you.

Speaker 15 (22:26):
The greatest players I ever coached, one, of course, was
Tito and the other one was Chip. And one one
was great and made himself very great. The other one
was was fairly average and made himself great.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
And that's that's what we all loved about Chip.

Speaker 15 (22:40):
And that's what Coach Wing saw in him, is that
he didn't he didn't have the uh, the tools, the
basic tool they're all pretty average. You know, a couple
of his his hands were above average, and he was
a great contact hitter, and but but it just how
he played the game and how.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
He led his team and his his.

Speaker 15 (23:00):
To effort, uh, not only to improve, but but to
help his team win.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Is what what uh?

Speaker 15 (23:07):
What we got out of Chip and what the Cats
are getting out of Chip Right now?

Speaker 6 (23:11):
I was going to say, what about the leadership? Where
did that come from? Did did he have that even
before he got here or did he pick that up?
You think maybe from you guys with Vane, Well, all
I can say is.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Chip.

Speaker 15 (23:25):
Chip just had it and that old thing, I'm not
sure what it is, but he has it, you know,
that that thing where people are just drawn to him.
And he's very well respected, as you know, you've talked
to him and interviewed him, very soft spoken and never
says anything about how great he is or what he's done.

(23:45):
It's always about what people around him have done and
what the team has done. And and and he he
grew up with that and and and you know was
his high school and and summer coaches Uh always told
us that that's your leader right there, and and and

(24:05):
and as Steve Strong, who's still his best friend, he
roomed with Chip is all four years when they were here.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
And we still laugh about this.

Speaker 15 (24:15):
He's the only one we've ever known that you go
in and tell coach Kendall what he thought, and coach
would take it to heart.

Speaker 16 (24:23):
Yeah it was. It wasn't well let me think about that. Well, Chip,
you know what, You're right, we need to do this.
It was just one of those things about him is
that he's he's very smart. You know, he had had
an appointment.

Speaker 15 (24:39):
To the Naval Academy and a bigger scholarship than we
gave him to Santa Clara, and and he chose us,
Thank goodness.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
I was gonna say, what, you know, as a as
a former coach or as a coach, what do you
like about this year's team?

Speaker 4 (24:54):
What do you like about the Wildcats of Omaha?

Speaker 5 (24:56):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (24:57):
If I could answer that question, because I was going
to ask the same thing, and how do you look.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
At the game? You know you won't play for the couch,
but do you watch it as a fan?

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Do you watch it? This kid's great, this kid's not?
You know, what do you see?

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Well? You know, we go to just about every.

Speaker 15 (25:13):
Home game, you know, it doesn't matter conference, non conference,
big game or.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
Not so great.

Speaker 15 (25:18):
And and uh, you know, I said, or seats the
right behind her plate, and we sit there and I
said I sit there right next to Steve Strong and
and I just watch I watch as as a coach,
and and things that I see that could be improved
or see that things I think are great and just
and and and as a fan of course, you know,

(25:41):
uh just really really want the Cats always to succeed
and chip, especially with this this group of Wildcats. But yeah,
so it's just from a lot of different perspectives. I
watched the game and kind of see what the coaches
are doing, and just just to appreciate how well they've

(26:02):
done this year after some really low, very low spots
in the season where he wondered, God, or we even
going to get into a regional, let alone host one.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
And they just kept battling, just kept battling.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, to maybe to Dave's question again, when you look
at the players, specifically the guy that the kids from
White from South Point, the local kid, what do you
see in him?

Speaker 15 (26:27):
Well, you know, his grandfather, Tim played with when I
was with me at when I was at the uvert
and played together, i should say, and I coached I
coached many his dad when he was in the early
nineties when he was wild And I've known Mason uh

(26:48):
and known of him since he was very young, and
that first time ever saw him.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
He is eleven years old.

Speaker 15 (26:55):
I think cornaught a little league and he's the best
player on the field. And then watched him all the
way through high school, and you know, watched him at
South Point, you know, where I coached for a good
number of years, and went to the home games in
some away games, and just he was just.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
A different player.

Speaker 15 (27:15):
You know, he just could elevate himself and the team
to the moment and and and it's interesting that and
he could hit the ball a long way, and you
know he can still do that, but in high school
he could hit the ball line the line and just
and you know, fell off eight nine pitches before he

(27:36):
got the one he wanted and then ith'd hit a
single to left.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Or a home run onto.

Speaker 15 (27:41):
The softball field or something. But yeah, and he just
showed that. And he could he always had real good hands,
good feet, and a strong arm and just just as
lightning and a barrel. And we've seen that through his
three years as a Wildcat.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
How about playing on the big stage.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
You think these guys are ready to go into a
place like Omaha where you know you were there, what
four times with the Wildcats. It's a big It's a
big difference, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
It is a big difference.

Speaker 15 (28:10):
But as as as a trip couch and Chips, Doumber,
one assistant and recruited coordinator, says, we're just playing baseball.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
The game doesn't change.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
You know, the.

Speaker 15 (28:23):
Venue or the crowd or who we're playing against might change,
but it doesn't matter who you're playing, You're You're still
playing baseball.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
And I think that's one of the things.

Speaker 15 (28:31):
That this team has done very well, and just battery
want of chips, teams.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Have done well. They play the game and and don't.

Speaker 15 (28:40):
Let the the moment get in the way of what
they're what they're trying to do as an individual to
help the team win.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's funny you say that, because baseball is baseball, right
and everybody plays it the same but different. Let me
ask you, does his style of coaching kind of emulate
Jerry's at all or maybe a little similar?

Speaker 4 (29:01):
And I reason I ask is I have another question
for that.

Speaker 15 (29:05):
Well, the one thing that we all learned from coach
Kindle was was that the fundamentals never changed, you know,
you know, as much as the way baseball seems to
have changed. It really hasn't you Still you still need
to throw strikes and play catch and put the ball
play to win. And the constant repetition of the fundamental

(29:27):
And you heard it on the broadcast when Wes Clements
was was doing the commentary.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
He would talk about coach.

Speaker 15 (29:36):
And how and it was like, oh, no, we got
to do this again.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
When are we going to hit?

Speaker 7 (29:41):
You know?

Speaker 15 (29:43):
So it was just yeah, and that's what the chip
just pounds into them.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
I know you've been practices.

Speaker 15 (29:49):
And you've seen them the infielders down on don on
their knees. Uh, field in the ground balls with with
with no glove, and you've see the outfield taking their
their route steps and you know the pictures just just
practice and just throwing easy and getting their mechanics right. Yeah,

(30:09):
that's that's just the way it's he's he teaches it.
The fundamentals don't change, and in order to win, you
have to you have to do the fundamentals correctly over
and over again.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
So you have a lot of games in a season. Uh,
and and they gets more intense, like they're going to
get this week? Uh did Jerry? And I probably know
the answer to this have a Rockney speech. Did he
have something that got the guys going? My guess is no,
but maybe I'm wrong. And would Chip have that in
his pocket?

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Uh? Yeah?

Speaker 15 (30:43):
You know it was never over the top. It was
is not the raw, raw type of type of speech.
It was just more of a and Chip does this
very well. It's it's more of a confidence building moment
where you know we're up to this.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
You know we can do this.

Speaker 15 (31:00):
We just remember where we've been and what we've done
to get ready, and we can do this. And that's
that was Coach's message all the time. And it didn't
matter who we were playing or where we were playing.
It was the same and of course different ways of
saying it, but it was basically the same message.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
You guys are good.

Speaker 15 (31:17):
You know you're good. You've worked hard for this moment.
Now just go out and do what you do. And
I think that's where the cats have been and you know,
the doubters and the haters have been out there all
along with Chip and the Wildcats when they're down or
this guy can't coach in the pros. You didn't know
what he's doing, and you know, okay, all right, keep

(31:39):
saying that it's funny. It's never been done, never been done.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, it's funny you say that because even you're saying this,
and Pete, we know that because people are negative, negative, negative,
and all of a sudden, Oh, the guy's great because
he's here. But it's funny that you say this because
you you must have heard it or saw it somewhere. Right.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Oh, it's so true, so true. Thank you for saying.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
That, bringing back some memories.

Speaker 15 (32:07):
I guess, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, And I know
it's well, I was saying that.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
I was kind of counting up the number of.

Speaker 15 (32:14):
Reasons we went to when I was coaching. There's sist
in our head coach. We went nine times. You went
to all four and one two, And you know that's
that's a when you look at it at oh man,
that's all that's a that's a pretty good uh average.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
You know, that's a pretty.

Speaker 15 (32:32):
Darn good average that for a program over the years.
And you know it's we went to we went to
nine and in my uh twenty three years and ship's
already gone to four.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
So well, you talked about something yesterday, Dave, the good
team that didn't make it the Oklahoma State I can't
remember the year.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Oh the ninety three team.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
Was it ninety three when when you guys lost fight
at Oklahoma State? Was such a great team you had
like having guys drafted or something, nine guys drafted.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
That was such an awesome team.

Speaker 15 (33:04):
Yeah, that was in fact, just since you mentioned that
they were, that team was here this past weekend room
reunion and a huge number of guys came in and
played golf and hung out. And I went up to
OMNI on Friday afternoon with Bobby Benzing or.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Equipment man, and.

Speaker 15 (33:25):
When they all those guys were here and just talked
about stuff. And that was truly a great team. Was
It was across the board pretty much considered one of
the greatest hitting teams in the history of college baseball.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
And and.

Speaker 15 (33:41):
It came down to the to the regional at Oklahoma State,
and and we had a pitcher who who went down
and couldn't pitch, and and that's when the beloved Todd
Brown came in and just you know, pitched on fume
and we we lost in the in the championship game

(34:03):
and late in the game. That was a great, great
team and if our pitching would have held together, I
think we would have won. We at least competed for
the national championship.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
And look at the eighty nine team, you know, with
all those.

Speaker 15 (34:19):
Greats that went on to pro ball, and you know,
they're great here and they're great in pro ball, you know,
Trevor's and Jts and just what a team that was,
Alan's Inner and just a great, great team Scott Erickson
and and we lost in our own regionals.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
You know, it's like holy cow, and that was you
know what happened. It happens right.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
In fact, I think I had Andy on last weekend
it Lopez, and I think baseball, you know, we know
how difficult is to get to the final four and
when maybe win a softball title. But to me, baseball
is one of the harder ones because there's so many
land mines and so many good teams, and and baseball
is kind of different because you never know what's going
to happen with pitching or hitting or whatever. Would you

(35:04):
agree that it's just kind of like a difficult, difficult
thing even with a good team.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
It is, even with a great team.

Speaker 15 (35:13):
It is so hard, you know, And in eighty nine,
you know that our center fielder Kevin Long who was
our hit third or our leader, our team captain.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
And you know, the first game.

Speaker 15 (35:27):
Of the regional, he he breaks his finger diving into
back into first base and can't play the rest of
the rest.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Of the regional.

Speaker 15 (35:36):
And he always said we'd have won the national championship
if I hadn't got hurt, And I say, well, we'd
at least played for it.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
But it's things like that.

Speaker 15 (35:44):
And you look at that game Sunday where that second
basemin makes an air just a ground balls, as we say,
there there really are no routine ground balls. You know,
they're all tough and you all you have to make
the play. And then the great bunt where the third
basement threw it away and all of a sudden, Mason

(36:07):
drives to it and we win. So it's it is
You're right, there are land mines, you know, a blop
single here, a walk, a hit by pitch, an error
by a really quality second basement. You just never know.
That's that's part of the beauty of it.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Definitely. Yeah, well that was great, great to catch up.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
I mean, it's gonna be a fun weekend, I hope
for you and for your your alumni group.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, let's.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
See if they can. Who do you advance? Keep on going?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Maybe one last quick question because we've got to go.
So where do you watch the game? And do you
hang out with some of the ex guys maybe locally?

Speaker 4 (36:46):
It is what do you where are you watching the
game from? And will it be with a bunch of
X guys.

Speaker 15 (36:52):
Yeah, we'll be We'll be watching it at home and
you know, we'll have a small watch party. You know,
I not one to go to a big watch party
because I don't like to be distracted what I'm wating.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah, you know it makes sense.

Speaker 15 (37:07):
But yeah, no doubt we'll be watching and just just
rooting the Cats on.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Great. Thank you coach, Thank you, Jerry, yep, thanks thanks
for having me. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
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On the Ball with Steve Rivera on Block Sports sporteen fifty.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Hey, welcome back to my on the Ball here of
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver
got ready at the controls. That was a good interview
with Jerry Stitt.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Good to catch up with him.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
He was He was always a good one to talk to,
even when he was an assistant under kindle. We would
have talked to Jerry. They were always available. And yeah,
it was great.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Very smooth minded, very you know, controlled voice.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
You know how you doing today, Steve.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
You know what I'm saying, Just very just not always
under control. Yeah, not excited like.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
That was kindled too, he was. They were all like
that in those year.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yes, well let me say when he when I asked
him about the speeches and things like that, I'm sure
it's all generational. Loot was that guy. Yeah, And I've
never really asked any of the guys. Didlut have something
that he kind of said? No, it was everything, kind
of like you know, every game's the same, gentleman, it
will be good. You know you're good, kind of like
you're good. Just go out and prove it, right, yeah, YadA.

(41:59):
Some people kind of criticize that because of some of
the first round losses, you know guys.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Yeah, but you know, I'm all excited. They were all
pumped up right right.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I think he had guys like Phil Johnson that they
would get on them, you know, just crazy coaches that
you know, got on them for that.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
Well, there's also too because Kendall and Lout were you know,
from the Upper Midwest. There was that thing too. There
were they both Norwegian or something. I maybe there's some
of that yah, you know, so they kind of came
out of the same culture. They're probably around the same age.
I think, you know, they all were kind of you know,
grew up in the fifties and stately, very stately, didn't
you know, didn't have a lot of attention on themselves,

(42:34):
and that's kind of where they led their programs. And
you know a lot of these guys have gone on
to become coaches themselves and and look to Loot and
look to Kendall as you know, they're their first real
big mentors in the coaching business.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (42:48):
I think I don't know sometimes because like I've asked coaches,
like well, high school coaches, but like still as coaches.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
If they've like given speeches and a lot of them
tell me that.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
It's just like the players that like they like, they
either understand or they'll be the ones to talk to
their own right.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Right, If you don't know the magnitude of the game,
he shouldn't be told that the magnitude of the game, right.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
And it's not like they're not hearing it from their
family and their friends. Hey, come on, this is the
biggest game you've ever I mean, there's a lot on
the line and everyone's going to be there putting pressure
on these guys.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Dave, you're going to come on the rad of tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
You better be good at this, and I'm gonna get
you fired up, he said, Steve, I got this.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Shut up. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
You already know, You already know the situation. We're going
to Omaha. We don't need anybody telling us this is.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Important and we've proven ourselves.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
We've won in some hostile environments and we're going to
go and play you know, the national TV, and it's
going to be a big moment for them.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
They should be looking forward to.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Well to your question that you asked them about the
stage and all that is. Baseball is baseball. It's just
a different facility. I don't know if I believe that.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
I do.

Speaker 6 (43:51):
I do, I guess I do. Still got to be
it's got to be in the back of their mind.
Hey wait a second, you know, pinch me. I'm here
in Omaha, have made the major leagues.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
It's a big deal. I think I think there's some
of that.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
But and I've argued this with Jay, and maybe I'm
completely wrong, whatever, but you know, these the guys who
get to the major leagues and you saw one the
other night, first at bat or second at bat, they
get their thing, and the family's teary eyed and blah
blah blah. The dude's been doing it all his life.
To him, it's just another game. Maybe inside he's got
but it's what you do. You know you drive. If

(44:23):
you drive a truck across country, what do you do?
You drive across across gutters? You don't say that's what
you do. These guys play ball. To you and me,
it might be like, wow, crap, I'm gonna poop my pants.
But it's called Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
I agree. We'll see.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Hopefully they can respond and it won't you know the
bright lights won't be a big deal.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
You know.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
I don't know about you, but didn't you guys to
get pumped up when you had a big story to cover,
like a final four or championship.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Yeah no, but it didn't. I wish it would have
maybe right better? Maybe I'm Maybe I'm because it didn't
involve me. It didn't involve me.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Although you know the nick day when you kind of
you write it and you read it next day, anythink cool?

Speaker 4 (45:04):
I was there.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
I was there, like for the national title game and
they win the title. You're thinking maybe I should have
written it a little bit differently.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
It's always second guessing or god, every you know Bruce,
when we have Brusson and we were on the road
a lot together cover the team, I used to finish
my story and he'd be still hacking away and I'm thinking, God,
your story sucks.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
I'm gonna start again. Yes, yeah, there's no way. And
then you wake up say you got a ninety seven.
That's pretty damn good. Right right, Well, let's see.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
I mean, you know, they've they've been Grays on the
road and they're you know, away from High Corbett. They're
gonna be back in like a major league stadium. It's
gonna be the big dimensions like high Corbett.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
I think they kind of got lucky by playing in
an Oregon where the field was didn't play organ when
they were in Oregon, you know, and like, whoa, we
get have some home runs here by just hitting some
high fly balls in the wind.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
I don't know how the weather is going to be
in Omaha.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Also, remember, Dave, they're not played against themselves. They're playing
against pretty good teams, right, So the other team is
thinking the same thing.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
You know, we gotta do this, we do that.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Yeah, and at the other day maybe maybe, if not,
the other team could be better.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
Right, Well, I'm in Coastal Carolina was the one that
beat them in twenty sixteen. So it doesn't matter in
terms of you know, the players, but you know they're
gonna say, hey, wait a second, we can win.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Yeah, sure we can beat these guys. Sure, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And in this tournament itself, all the big names aren't there, right,
you mean the powers that were used to see.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
So someone's gonna sneak it, sneak through? Why not Arizona?

Speaker 5 (46:35):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (46:36):
You know you hear that everywhere you you were mentioned,
what's the T shirt? Going for five?

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Going for five some type of I saw that yesterday
in the story that I told you about TV.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Yeah, cool shirt. Where do you get it? Bookstore? Bookstore? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (46:51):
Yeah, shirt?

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 5 (46:54):
Probably?

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Probably they ain't cheap anymore. Anybody you want to call.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
That, we we got like thirty four minutes.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Okay, if you want to call, please do five to zero, four, one, six, seventy,
four to forty your your thoughts on the baseball team.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
You're gonna have breaking news on the other side. Oh yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
And then at four to seventeen we're gonna have Dave Roady,
another one of those kind of stable dudes. Good dude,
we gotta call perfect timing. Hello, you're on the air.
Nine on the ball?

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Who's this?

Speaker 20 (47:21):
Rick? How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Hey? Rick?

Speaker 4 (47:22):
What's the word?

Speaker 20 (47:24):
How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (47:24):
Dave? Hey?

Speaker 20 (47:26):
Just thinking about this the other day. Baseball is the
hardest game to predict from one day to the next.
And I say that because number, when you have nine
people on the field, you have so many different variables
going on. A pitcher can be on, a great pitcher

(47:48):
can be totally off, and it just and your bats
you could be missing the ball. It is, so you're
so vulnerable when you play baseball. Unlike basketball or football,
and I'm talking about the primary sports, they're much more
predictable because there's a certain level of consistency that you

(48:10):
can develop. Baseball is the most unpredictable game you can
you can play. And that's just from watching it. From
playing it. You know, one day you're you're hitting three fifty,
the next day you're barely swinging the back.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Yeah, well, Rick, I totally agree with you, totally agree
with you, and I never the kids, and I never.

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Agree with I know you never.

Speaker 20 (48:34):
You never agree with me unless.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
You want to give me some money, and I definitely
don't agree. There we go ahead, but no.

Speaker 20 (48:43):
And just and that's the one greatest thing about baseball.
It's like, and here's the other flip side of that
whole deal. You can strike out a dozen times, and
all of a sudden you're hitting three hovers in a row.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Right, white kid, he had kind of been slumping before
you got that base hit, right, be came a shortened
just swinging, got got that base hit.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Well, look what happened?

Speaker 15 (49:01):
You know?

Speaker 6 (49:02):
The first game of that regional I get destroyed, what
eighteen to two, and they come back the next day
and it's like they just totally forgot about it, move
on to the next.

Speaker 20 (49:08):
Game, and it's it's crazy. But that's why I love
baseball so much, because it is so unpredictable, and uh,
being a coach, you gotta want no wonder most of
them don't have much hair left.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Yeah, no, you're right, you're right where you watching the game?
What are you watching the game? Are you?

Speaker 20 (49:26):
And yeah, I'm taping it. Actually I meant I'm hosting
a conference.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
Tomorrow, but okay, I'm not.

Speaker 20 (49:36):
I'll watch it. I got him, I got him all taped.

Speaker 5 (49:38):
Okay, re good, Thanks Rick, So appreciate you guys.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
Thanks for the call.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Got about not enough time for another call, right, five
fifty four?

Speaker 4 (49:46):
Got about two minutes.

Speaker 5 (49:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
I agree with him though, because wasn't starting pitching right?
Starting pitching. One of the things that enlightened me a
little bit more when I have Blake on you know,
former picture, former you know pro picture, Uh, and you
it's gonna be game ones are always tough because you're
gonna face the number one guy, the number one guy,
and depends how good that number one guy is. Either
you're gonna stretch you down or you get you know,

(50:10):
get to him, right, But if you can get get
to him, that'll be great because then you don't have
to face him again Game two, Game three.

Speaker 6 (50:17):
Which kind of made last weekend even more remarkable because
the number one guy got shelled. You know, Kramkowski gave
up all those runs and they just you know, there
was nothing they could do to stop who they lose
to that North Carolina. Yeah, I mean, you're right, and
so the other there was some depth in the pitching
staff that we saw this past weekend, which was great.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Well, let's go back to Oregon. They faced the number
one guy from They got two hits and all they
needed to survive, right, you know, so that guy was
pretty damn good.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
So I'm sure Coastal Carolina is gonna throw their number
one guy and we'll see how they react to him.
And how much scouting can you do really against the
player You've never really seen him personal, right.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
I'm sure they're scouring the tapes, you know, how to hit,
how to pitch these guys.

Speaker 6 (51:00):
So yeah, but that number one starter generally is your
best picture. Generally you're you know, you're hoping you're gonna
get a great performance, and uh, you know, in the
regionals so far, it's been the other pictures who've kind
of carried the load.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Right right, Are we good to go? Yeah yeah, all right, okay,
and we can come back early if you want. Let's
take a break, come back, we'll get your break, your
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