Thursday, June 19, Hour 1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, good afternoon, everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
I'm Steve Roberta. In today with me is Dave Silver.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You got Ray behind the scenes handling all the calls,
all the letters of the obscene calls.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Fan mail, fan mail. People should start writing in fan
mail to you. You can read their you can start
coming up with right. Dear Eye on the Ball, why
don't you really enjoy your show? Where's that guy talking?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Does that get carried away? Dave? About that?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
How can they talk for two hours? It's like yesterday
we keep going uh uh.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Bake and I were talking and we talked to the
the new Tucson Baseball team owner, Victorquevis, and he was
pretty interesting. And you know they're bringing this team. You've
been here long enough to know, you know, good luck, right,
because it's we've seen them, We've seen them come and go,
and we're pulling for him.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
The games are going to be begin in Octotober October
are they're going to be playing on the.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Weekend to December.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's a thirty four game home schedule, so I think
that'll help, right. The weather will be fine, You'll have
access to non baseball time. They'll share the dollar with
U of a. Right, if you're going to go, the
audience isn't the same.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Right, I mean, you know, I hope they're not going
to be thinking about going up against football Saturdays. I
don't know. I mean it's gonna be rough.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's gonna be rough just to get interest.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, I guess people could still go and it
doesn't you know whatever, But as far as getting coverage
and you know, any kind of notoriety for the games,
it's gonna be hard to compete against that.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Here's the problem, David, and you're you were in a
different era, so as I with media, I mean, there's
one person at the stations now, yeah, and there's maybe
two minutes I don't know how much. You've got maybe
three and a half, at least three and a half
now it's cut in half, right, right, And and you're
trying to have a something that's going to catch the
attention of the media, even for a twenty second sound bite.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah. Well, I mean a lot of what we did
was leading up to the games. You know, we would
be talking you of a football all week, things like that,
and so that's where they might get buried for coverage,
is that you know what they're going to talk about
our baseball team that nobody really knows as yet. I mean,
hopefully they'll have good social media presence and things like that,
because you're right, people aren't watching like the local news

(02:27):
necessarily anymore for the for the nuts and bulls and there.
If they're a big baseball fan and these guys have
a good you know, social media presence, that's going to
be helpful.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Do you do you is that where you get your
eating news? Now? Pretty much legitimate. So the first thing
I says, people said.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh I saw this somewhere somewhere. Where'd you get that problem?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I've always been pretty good about just checking the source.
I mean, that was something you're in the business, and
I know, you know, we know kind of the legitimate
once here in town. And you know, people who've either
you know, maybe been in the traditional media that are
going to be legitimate reporters, and we'll take them for
what they're what they can do. But yes, that's what's
amazing about where we live now is how people do

(03:09):
get fooled.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
But yeah, oh I read this, and I saw this,
and this is where'd you get it from? Well, I
don't remember, but I heard. It's just it's not really I.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Mean, everything's so splintered and you just don't know what
you're going to be getting necessarily from the right people.
But you know, so with sports, especially in Tucson, there's
not much to choose from. It's basically, you know, there's
like guys like us, we're doing you know, some radio
and things like that, and the you know, the few
websites that are really effective, and that's about it.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Sure, are you after now that Ray, that your friends
know you do what you do right now? Kind of
what you're doing. I don't know how serious they take you.
But do they say what's up with the baseball team?
Or what's up with that?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
You know?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Are you asked more questions on that they know that
you do this even though you're not any brighter or
less brighter? Okay, you're doing this, but are you more
into baseball than you were last week or two weeks
or three months ago?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I like to think that I've mostly always been into
baseball or sports.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, sports, So do they say, Ray, what do you
think about this now?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
More often? Because you're doing this?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Sometimes Uh, I don't know. I've always just talked sports though.
Like I remember even in the military when I was
like during fantasy season, you know, one of someone else
was in a you know, they were debating on who
to start, and my sergeant was like, oh, yeah, go
ask Ray and you know, I didn't say it like that,
but and you know, for the record, that was a

(04:26):
good pick.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
That was a good pick that week for me. But
he didn't listen, so he lost.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah. Yeah, but you don't, like you, Dave, and you
have your your friends, do they ask you still now,
like what's up?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh yeah, what's up?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
You know, and you probace I haven't paid attention to
twenty years.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, no, I mean it's it's kind of nice that
they still remember.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
But I did that sometimes because it's been a while.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
But I'm sure there's a threshold from age oh sure
that you know, sure what what?

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
But I think i think they get a kick out
of the fact that I'm doing this and it's like whoa,
we still he can still talk and you can still communicate.
It's been a while, but but I'll by the same token.
I'll be with people and they'll ask me a question
about some you know, random U of a football player,
and I go, I have no idea what you're talking about.
I haven't studied it that close. And even back when
I was doing it, yeah, you know, it was hard

(05:15):
to keep track. But now I look forward to having
professional baseball. I'm sure the quality is going to be good.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh yeah, I'm told it's like just above Triple A
and below Oh gosh, wow.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, yeah, it's you know, worth going to.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
It could be you know there. I'm sure there'll be
an occasionally, you know, former U of a player, maybe
a local player from the high schools that will somehow
get on that roster.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
That could help bring out some people as well.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Right, just so, I'm hoping that the tickets are not
that expensive. It's gonna be good baseball, and I guess
it's gonna have a little taste of the Fiesta, right,
which is good?

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, are they still going to have the Fiesta? Did
I miss that in the news? A good question I
think's happening.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Okay, So you mean because one's coming, I think it's
right before it's that time.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, that's a good question. I didn't ask that. I'll
ask that.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'll text like that's still continuing because I mean, you know,
you're right, that's bring bringing a lot of attention at
a kind of a slow time for baseball. That's usually
right like right after the well, I guess the playoffs
are still going sometimes in so anyway, it's a good
distraction for us here when there's games and there's you know,

(06:19):
one big football game a week. Basically basketball hasn't really
kicked in just yet.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, you think that some people are gonna, like, would
go just because the basketball tickets are so expensive go
to what baseball?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, this is a different This is a different crowd.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Although if you like baseball, and I know a lot
of people who do and they have nowhere, no where
to go or whatever, they'll go see this, especially if
it's the quality they said it's going to be right,
I think, Dave, you'd probably go sure, you know, on
Saturday or a Friday night, you know, just to get
away out of the house experience it.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, what about fans coming from Mexico are they counting
on to Dave?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
That's a great question in today's climate. And I brought
that probably off the air to Blake and we didn't
go there.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
But yeah, talk about what happened, what's happened at the Dodger.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Stadium, right, Well, I mean that's kind of what the
Mexican Baseball Fiesta has been able to do right in
the past, is to get some of the fans to
come or I mean there's already going to be you know,
a huge population in Pima County or you know, in
southern Arizona anyway. But you know, do fans fans even
going to feel comfortable coming up, that's the thing, and
coming to a game for a weekend and yeah, having

(07:29):
to come in and go back, no, would you? Yeah,
I mean, I don't know, that's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's I kind of post that off the air and
we didn't go there, but I'm sure that's a concern.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, the timing for at least that, but you know,
I think they'll do something. They're going to have to
do some good marketing because two soon's a tough town.
You know that we don't like to be considered, you know,
quote unquote like minor league city, right, which is really
what we are.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
But you know, when it comes to pro sports, Dave,
we talked about that.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Too yesterday with Blake and I'm sure I'm not sure
people listen to this, says, come on, guys, move on
from that subject. But but we all you've admitted that
we are a minor league. We're not Phoenix. But embrace it.
Embrace it and knock it out of the park literally,
for for all the events, for all the sports, because
we are who we are. It's not it's not face
facts or change the facts exactly, and and take on

(08:15):
a bit. We're a damn good minor league program, right,
why not? What's gonna hurt?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, I mean definitely, And you know it would be
nice to you know, have something where we can just say,
you know, we've done a good job with this. We
have kind of started from scratch and people were maybe
skeptical at the beginning, but you know it's something new
and we we know we've got great, great baseball fans here.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yes, so so Blake, I'm sure, go ahead. So Blake says, yes,
the FIST will continue. Good.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
So it's probably right a preview of the actual season.
Maybe they play each other, uh to get ready for
the year, right.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Right, you know, it'll probably be some of the same players,
maybe some are already going to be coming up, you know,
establishing themselves here just for the season.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
To your point, right, the audience, it's just different. But
if you like baseball, why not, right, we'll go see it.
Go see it. And we were Dave and I both
cover the Triple A team that was here for a
number of years.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's hard.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
There are days Fourth of July, you know, packed, There's
certain days that were packed, beer nights, blah blah blah. Yeah,
but let's say, let's see for a second. They paid tonight.
We played tonight on Thursday night. It would have been
some kind of special T shirt night whatever, but it's
gonna be one hundred and seven. That's the first pitch, right,
how many people you think you're even go?

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Man?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I wouldn't even go. It was hard.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was difficult, And you know, it was difficult from
a media standpoint too, when we would show up and
there'd be fifty people in the stands and we're going,
why am I here? Does anybody really care? It was
hard to justify that sometimes. But I tried to block
that out and just look at it like this isn't
this is an event. This is our team, and we're
giving them coverage and let's let's move on.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
And you're kind of obligated to do that because for
the reasons you said, it's our town, or do.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
You want to even go way back?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know, I wasn't here before Loot, but you know,
we hear the stories about how McHale was, you know,
like a library and things like that, you know, and
I don't know how much coverage they they got. I'm
sure the newspapers did, but I don't know how much
even TV covered them. Sure, and you know, eighty two
or eighty three, that was terrible years. When when you
when your team isn't good and the fans don't care,
you know, sometimes it's you have to know what you

(10:20):
like that is is a media member like, okay, we'll
send one reporter around and do you know game story
and that's it.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm sure it was pretty pretty bad
and pretty bleak at the time. So that's kind of
your journalistic ideas have to come come through.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, you know, and do these weird stories, right, And
there's gonna be a lot of great stories, I'm sure
with this team. Just just the fact that that's from
Mexico is you know, just to start with. But the players,
we'll learn about them we'll learn about the fans, We'll
learn about their you know, their entertainment is going to
be maybe a little bit different than most baseball fans
here are used to. I know, the Fiesta kind of

(10:56):
prides itself on the music and the noise.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, constant. How many games did you go to that?

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I've been to a few here consistently.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Okay, Ray, have you have you been out there?

Speaker 5 (11:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
I only found out about it last year. Yeah, so
it's fantastic. I didn't know anything about it.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Helped the mic maybe five six years ago, and I'm
seeing this is what they do.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's a party. You happen to watch a baseball game.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, I mean I've seen games televised from those countries,
and even like you know, in Korea and Japan, it's
a little bit of a different environment. So I guess
the teams are going to win these league championships will
go to like some kind of a Caribbean World Series.
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I don't know about that. I don't know. Yeah, so
that's good. That's good.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's just another thing. And we were talking yesterday and again,
I don't want to borrow our listeners. That's a big
story in terms of this city being a minor league place,
but you have those Sugar Skulls, you have the road Runners,
you have all these teams, and Blake was talking about
maybe having a sports summit with these teams and kind
of everybody embraced each other and help push the ball

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forward in all the reports, makes sense. It makes total sense,
doesn't it. And you're thinking, how come that hasn't happened
in the past.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah, I mean whatever, you know that this the complex
are building out by the airport is going up. I
don't know if you driven out of the mosaic a quarter.
I mean there's kind of a shell of I guess
it's going to be this arena thing that they're building
for the hockey team, and you know, kind of a
field house.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
I did that story for BIS Tucson three four years ago.
They were ready to break brown the break ground two
years ago, and it's been delayed, been delayed. So you're saying, oh, yeah,
you can see something there.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
So there's something that some things are being built, and
I'm going to assume it's not going to take you know,
probably more than a year to get that that rolling.
I'm sure the hockey team if that's where they're going
to be playing. Yes, yeah, so we'll be will be great,
and it's it's supposed to be I think three thousand seats,
so it won't look empty if like maybe now.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
With the TCCA, it's just twusons of a weird town.
It's a fun, nice town, but it's a weird.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
I wonder we should. Well, maybe you can talked to
Blake next time he's on. They're gonna be able to
sell beer out there? Uh the baseball Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't know. I'll text him to go to break.
So today's guests, what do we got?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
We got three seventeen you posted and I can't remember
Radkey Oh yeah, Ryan Radicky, like you said on your
tweet to day, we're going to go back in time
talk about the U of a time. But he was
the one of the Laite announcers for softball for the
World Series for West one or one game that he
saw all the games, so I wanted to get his

(13:34):
thoughts on that during during the tournament. He couldn't. He
was too busy. So no, no, no, did you see
la Stat's game? I saw it was one of the
was crazy. Actually, yes, it was insane. It's one of
the craziest. And I've seen a lot of crazy games.
That was crazy.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
No, that was I mean, did you did you ever
feel that Arkansas was gonna win that game? I thought, dude,
I thought I was like, oh, like after that, after
that era in the ninth y ls he, I was like, oh,
they got it, or like late in the game. I
don't know if it was the ninth line drive to
the left field yeah, and I was like, man, they
got it.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
No, no, no, no, that's when that's when it was
an air before this.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Because I didn't see the game. I saw the highlights.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, no, because you're talking Arkansas had this yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
And then something else and I mean just bounced off
that right fielder's hand, left fielder, right.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Leftfielder, left fielder's hand.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
When it was just the gods is crazy, Yeah, the gods.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Baseball gods.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Man, it's the discourse around sports gods and Arkansas has
been pretty funny on Twitter today.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Sure they were zero and six against these guys and yeah,
really overall all the time.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, So it's L s U and Coastal Carolina.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
So yeah, so I tweeted or asked lev what makes
j John? I didn't cover him. I did one story
on him when he first got here. But he's back again.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I mean he's got talent, but he's got to have
some kind of magic that has them playing well.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
All the time. It's called money. Well, they're good good.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
That was part of the reason he was able to
go downe virtue.

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Ray has given me the sign and we got to go.
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Hey, welcome back to you. I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and with
to be today's Dave Silver. Now on the poat we
have Ryan Radkey with Westwood Right.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Westwood one?

Speaker 2 (20:19):
West Wood one, You're everywhere, ran everywhere NFL football, softball.
I thought you were doing baseball. But let me tell
you something. I follow softball every now and again, but
I followed him religiously during the playoffs because to me
it was fascinating games, walkoffs, pitching, GameLine game stories.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
You must have had a fun time.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, it's a fun sport.

Speaker 14 (20:45):
I actually got into it when I was a freshman
at the U of a girl that actually lived down
the hall for me and my dorm was friends with
one of my friends, and so they said, oh, you know,
we should go to softball the supporter, and of course,
you know, me and my friends were like, come on, offtball,
you've got to kidd me.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
And we went and we loved it. I mean it
was a fast moving game.

Speaker 14 (21:06):
Obviously at that point, Arizona was one of the elite
in the country, so I mean that doesn't hurt when
you're watching, you know, number one, number two ranked team
in the country, and we got into it, and so
we went to I mean it felt like almost every
home game in the four years that I was in school,
and had always kind of followed it since, and so
a couple of years ago when they asked me if
I'd be interested in doing it for Westwood One, I

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said absolutely, and been able to do it now the
last what five years or so, and it's been awesome.

Speaker 5 (21:32):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, you've done baseball. How different is softball for
play by play? I mean, it's such a quick game, seems.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Like, Yeah.

Speaker 14 (21:39):
I think that's probably the biggest difference, Dave is it's
just there's not as much dead time, so there's not
as much story time or filling between pitches and things
like that, especially now that just like baseball, they have
the pitch clock, so it speeds it up even more.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
You know, a lot of the rules are similar.

Speaker 14 (21:56):
There's a few differences, but I'd say that's the main difference.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
It's just more of calling the game.

Speaker 14 (22:02):
There's not nearly as much dead time in between pitches
that you have to fill, which is nice. I spent
a long time doing that, especially working by myself in
minor league baseball, so it's fun to just to go
out there and call the game.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
In my view, Texas Tech was probably one pitch away
from winning the title, and that was a mistake pitch
in Game one.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
How did you view that?

Speaker 14 (22:25):
Yeah, I mean, if Niga Kennedy just throws ball four
toes At, would I think Texas Tech probably wins that
game and they win the series. And it just shows
you how small the margin of error is and what
a great play it was by a Reesat with the
Texas catcher when Kennedy made a mistake and she saw
it earlier that she threw an intentional ball that was
kind of over the plate and said to herself, if

(22:45):
I see it again, I'm gonna I'm gonna take a hack,
and she did and it paid off.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
But yeah, I agree.

Speaker 14 (22:50):
I mean, if if she executes ball four, no offense
to Jolie Mitchell, who was coming up next, But I
think Kennedy probably gets her out and then I think
Texas Tech probably sweeps this series.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
And instead, you know.

Speaker 14 (23:02):
They end up losing Game one and then they'll ultimately
get get blown out in Game three. Kennedy had to
throw a ton Yeah, and I think it finally caught
up with her in that champs came.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I agree. Let me ask you.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
We have we talk about this solid time, Jay Nowaday
and my interns. I am assuming you've seen a lot
of games, and I don't want to sway you. You
believe in in baseball gods or or just sports gods.

Speaker 14 (23:27):
Do I believe you can anger the gods?

Speaker 5 (23:32):
I think that's the way that I believe in it.
Probably the most.

Speaker 14 (23:35):
Is I'm a little bit old school in the way
I believe you should play the game. It's one of
the reasons that college baseball now especially really angers me
when I watch it, because I think there is a
way that you should play the game, and I think
most of college baseball does not play it that way.
So I yeah, I think there are times that you

(23:55):
can you can anger them. But then again, I've probably
said that one hundred times, and the person I think
has angered the gods in some way then goes three
to four and drives in four runs and throws it
in my face.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well, I asked because a real quick day.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Because the last night's game, I don't think you saw
it because I asked you. The last night's game was
one of the most bizarre games for Arkansas and the LSU.

Speaker 14 (24:15):
Yeah, you know what I think, honestly, Steve. In the
Men's College World Series games i've watched, you know, there's
that saying coaches like to say this a lot, that
more games are lost than they are won. I think
that's been the theme of the games in Omaha. I
think games have been lost by teams that the moment
gets too big for them, They don't execute fundamentals, seem

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to just go awry at key moments in the game.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
And we've seen it time and time again.

Speaker 14 (24:42):
I mean we saw it from Arkansas last night. You
know what should have been a tailor made six four
to three double playball to end the game, and for
some reason, the short Souff throws the third base. Why
that run means nothing and easily could have gotten a
double play. We saw Oregon State failed to field a
bunce in the ninth inning. The other day, we saw
Arizona failed in some of those situations. So I think,

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to me, for the games I've watched, and I have
not watched every inning of every game, but the games
I've watched in Omaha, I feel like more of those
games have been lost.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Than they've been won.

Speaker 14 (25:13):
And that's not to take anything away from LSU, who
had to capitalize on the mistakes last night, or any
of those other teams, but I just feel like that's
been a consistent theme of teams that just cannot execute
when it matters the most, especially in close games.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, tell us what's coming up next.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
You get a little bit of a break with the summer,
you head right into college football. I assume at the
end of August NFL.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
I think, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, actually right into the NFL.

Speaker 14 (25:38):
So yeah, I got a little bit of a little
bit of downtime now, which is nice, and then NFL
starts up.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Looks like Sunday Night football.

Speaker 14 (25:46):
Again this year. We'll be doing that every week. I've
been doing that the last couple of years, so that'll
be good and looking forward to being back on that.
And there will be some other random games as there
always our spring in over the holidays or some Thursday
nights or some Monday night double headers, things like that.
So looking forward to that, and then college basketball and

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the NCAA Tournament again, first two weekends of the men's tournament,
Women's Final Four, and then we'll be back for softball
next year in Oklahoma city and see if all this
money in Texas tech is spending is gonna.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Get them back to Okay see next year.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, absolutely, maybe we'll see. Let me ask you up.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
You know how the business is, especially in our business
where you know, we don't get access to a lot
of the players. You know, they bring them to the
podium and you ask questions and then they're gone. It's
you don't get close. You really don't tell a story
in your line of work. Do you get to sit
down with them a day before, get some storylines, get
to know them for your broadcast before?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
I asked for a reason, Yeah, I mean I.

Speaker 14 (26:47):
Think in college sports we do not really in the NFL,
although I shouldn't say that, the studio does a lot
of our pregame and halftime, so look for the NFL
so they get a chance to talk to those guys
and do interviews and stuff throughout the week with the
college stuff. Yeah, I mean, you know, the day before
the first round of the men's basketball tournament, will sit

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down with all the coaches, talk to them about their teams,
that kind of thing and players if we deem that necessary,
same thing, you know, second weekend of the tournament, before
the women's Final four, we'll get players and coaches that'll
come in the day before, sit down and talk. We
do it every year before the first day of the
Women's College World Series. All the coaches, two or three

(27:27):
players from each team come through and you know, we
spend eight nine hours sitting there and talking to all them,
and so it's a chance to get to know them
a little bit. Also, get there, get to know their
stories a little bit before before we go on the
air with it.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
So what I was gonna ask you is, because you're
do the big games on the NFL, the Rogers story,
there's a lot of storylines specific to him. Have you
had a chance to meet him and sit down with
them and get to know him because he's kind of
like a polarizing guy not kind.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Of is.

Speaker 14 (27:59):
Yeah, No, I have not. I haven't had the opportunity
to sit down and talk with him. I know that
the west Wood One folks did when the Packers were
in the Super Bowl, had a chance to sit down
and talk to him and those kind of things. But
now for regular season games, like I said, our studio
kind of does all of that stuff. So unless you
you know, unless you know somebody and you maybe see

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him on the field before the game and say hi
or something like that.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
I don't do a lot of that.

Speaker 14 (28:24):
I know Mike Golick, my analyst, he goes down to
the field before every game.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
He knows a lot of people.

Speaker 14 (28:29):
He'll talk to people, try to get some storylines or
things like that. But it's not something that that that
I do a ton of, at least with the NFL.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, Okay, now I was gonna say it's gonna be
an exciting year. Is the NFL is going very international?
There's games going to be all over the place, and
the dates are going to be you know, spread out,
and you know maybe another is there going to be
a Wednesday game or that. We definitely have some new
Thursday craziness with Netflix. I mean, the schedule is a
little bit disjointed compared to what we're used to. Are
you guys used to it as broadcasters?

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yet? No? Not yet.

Speaker 14 (29:00):
I did what three games in ten days last year
something like that. I was on that cycle where I did.
I did the Sunday night game, then I did the
Christmas Day game, which was Wednesday, I think maybe Thursday,
I can't remember. And then I had a Saturday night
game right after that. So yeah, it's still it takes
them getting used to that's for sure. I think it'll

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be a little while before we're used to it. But
you're right, I mean, gone to the days of it's
just all Sunday and then a Saturday at the end
of the season. You get the Thursdays every week, you
get the Monday doubleheaders. Now we got Sunday nights every week.
The holidays, they're getting them all in black Friday. So
they are taking over, that is for sure.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
So Ryan, give me the times of the years that
you were here, early nineties, mid nineties.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
I was.

Speaker 14 (29:46):
I started at school in ninety five and I started
on the air. My first game on the air was
the football opener of the ninety nine season, and I
was there until through the two thousand and seven season.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I you hear that long, okay?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
So yeah, so for ninety nine, you're partly eighteen nineteen
years old, if that, and what are you thinking one day?
I want to do this and hopefully and did you
think that? Did you even know that? What were you thinking?

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (30:15):
I mean when I started, my goal was I wanted
to get to the big leagues as a baseball play
by play guy. I mean, that was my goal really
from the time that I was a little kids. I
wanted to I wanted to get to the major leagues,
and I wanted to do major League baseball every single
day and spend a lot of time in the minor
leagues working towards that goal. But you know, things change,

(30:36):
things get altered, and I was offered a chance to,
you know, start doing some football and basketball when I
came to Nevada, and that kind of opened my eyes
some new stuff, and that's ultimately what led me to
Westwood One, and that opened doors to do the NFL.
So that's kind of the way that that my career
path has gone. But yeah, I mean from the time
I was little, I wanted to be in radio and

(30:59):
my goal originally was to do major league baseball every
single day. So weird how things work out sometimes, but
I'm glad that I'm glad that it did.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Have you had a chance to talk to the current
college students or the those who are interested in the
business kind of wondering, you know, how do I how
do I get to this point.

Speaker 14 (31:16):
Yeah, I've talked to I've talked to a lot of
different classes. There's a class at at Nevada that I
talked to every semester. The guy that teaches it was
a former associate athletic director when I was there, and
so I've had a relationship with him for a long time,
so I had a chance to talk with him. Have
some other friends that teach classes around the country that
I've been a guest at. I did when I was
in La and April. Have a friend that teaches at

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USC went and spoke to her class a little bit.
And then you know, you get the folks that reach
out to you. You know, hey, can you listen to
my demo? Can you give me some feedback? Can you
tell me what you think? What's my next step? Where
do I go next? That kind of thing. And I
enjoyed doing that. I enjoyed listening to two people's demos
and critique them and to help them in some way.

(32:01):
And I was just talking to someone the other day
and I told them, you know, look, I don't get
here without a lot of help, and so I like,
I need to try to help the next generation get
to where they want to go, and hopefully they'll do
the same thing. Then just you know, kind of keep
paying it forward and trying to help the next guy.
I mean, you guys know there's enough bitterness and jealousy
and anger in this business. I mean, it's it's about

(32:22):
time that some of us, you know, at least try
to have some positivity and try to help some folks
out rather than just competing all the time.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
I call that Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
So so if we got one, got a couple of minutes,
So give me a lasting or impression of your time
here at Arizona covering a game, or maybe attending one
of those softball games, or ninety seven basketball.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
God, I remember so ninety seven basketball. I was a sophomore.

Speaker 14 (32:50):
I was living in my first apartment because I had
lived on campus as a freshman. I was living in
an apartment. I just remember. It was just crazy. I mean,
you know, you went in hoping. I remember, I was hoping.
I wanted to play Kansas again because Kansas was the
best team in the country. They had beaten Arizona the
year before, knocked him out in the Sweet sixteen. You know,
everybody had food poisoning all that good stuff. So I

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wanted to see Kansas gave even though they're the best
team in the country. I was like, I want to
see these guys again because I thought that that Arizona
should have beaten them in ninety six. Now, I didn't
really go into that saying we're definitely beating Kansas and.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
What year old? Though, yeah, right, what is the nineteen
year old?

Speaker 14 (33:26):
I mean, unbelievable that that they pulled it off. And
then I remember I was home for I think that
would have been spring break when they played Providence, and
I remember, you know, all these people saying like, oh man,
you guys are going to the final four, and I'm like, well,
we got to be Providence first, like, oh, Probaden, that
will be no problem.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
You'd be Kansas.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
You're in the final four.

Speaker 14 (33:44):
And then of course, you know how they go to
overtime against Providence and ultimately get to the final four,
and you know, then it's Carolina and it's Kentucky and
you know you're just thinking like when is this going
to end? And it just it never did. I mean,
it was it was just an unbelievable ride. I mean
it was it was crazy. I mean I enjoyed every
second of it. And you know, of course at that time,

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thought they'd be back in ninety eight and probably do
the same thing again, and that didn't quite work out,
but it was. It was definitely one of the best
memories I've had. I've had a chance to work with
Austin Krozer a bunch. I always remind Austin about ninety seven.
He is restrained from punching me, although he wants to.
He didn't want to talk about it. That's too bad.

(34:26):
I'm gonna bring it up every single time. He's too
nice to punch me. But no, it was. That was
an amazing ride of watching it. I was still just
a fan at that point in time.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
I was.

Speaker 14 (34:36):
I was the kid that entered the lottery every year
for student tickets, never won them once, but you know,
was found ways to buy tickets from other people who won.
One time, over Christmas break, my roommate and I came
back early, actually slept outside McHale all night long to
get tickets to the UCLA game. You know, we just
loved it. It was just it was the thing that

(34:58):
we did. And and so you know, back then when
you were kind of just innocent and just a fan
before started covering the team and to try to be
more objective and all that fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Right, yeah, no question.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
You had a chance to work with the with the
sidewinders too, and that had had a good experience as well.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 14 (35:15):
I mean, I you know, it's it's where I really
got started doing play by play.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Ye.

Speaker 14 (35:21):
I bugged Brett Dolan for a long time to you know,
give me a chance.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
I'll do whatever I got to do. I don't care.

Speaker 14 (35:28):
And finally in two thousand and three it worked out
that I was able to get in there for thirty
bucks a game and all the press box food I
could eat, and you know, was his number two guy
for three years and and learned a ton and that
opened a door. Then when Brett went to the Astros
and I was able to take over with the Sidewinders

(35:48):
and that turned into to go into Reno. I mean,
those are those were incredibly valuable opportunities. And you know,
without Brett and what he did for me, without Brian
Jefferies and what he did for me, I wouldn't be
doing what I'm doing now. So those two guys are
people that I still have great admiration for that I
still talk to all the time. And you know, like

(36:10):
I said, I'm just I'm thankful for what they did
for me. They certainly didn't have to, but they did
and it worked out really well for me.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
Hopefully it worked out well for them. Hopefully they're they're.

Speaker 14 (36:22):
You know, proud of what I've been able to do
and know that they're a huge part of it.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Great.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Thanks Ryan. Good to hear from you.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
All right, guys, always good to talk to you. Have
a good one this season.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
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Speaker 2 (39:50):
Back twy the Ball here on Fox Sports Sports teen
fifty mc Rivera and today is Dave Silver Got Ready
behind the mic on the other side. So I was
at a place Tuesday night with a bunch of dudes,
my older dude friends.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Uh, Steve, you watching don't be NBA? You know where
are we going with this?

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Do you want Katon Clark? You know what's about?

Speaker 5 (40:10):
What's going on? Why do they hate her? Yeah? Yetta?

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeaha do you what do you what do you make
of that? Or do you pay attention to you know
a little.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
Bit I'm seeing tonight that their coach is taking leave.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's an undisclosed reasons. That's because maybe her
teammates aren't defending her.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
No storyline, inmates are defending the.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, it's but by the way she got hit. I
mean they're defending her, trying to. They're bulling the hell
out of her from day one and it continues. Now.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
I don't get it. I don't get it, but I
guess I get it. I don't know what do you
make of it?

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Ray, You know, obviously don't want to put like words
into the mouths of people, but I mean you want
to assume that it's just like jealousy.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
It's like they've been doing this for so long, and
you know, like she comes in, it's her sick year
been very heavily followed.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
For like people are watching for a reason, yeah exactly,
but they're.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Also watching to see what the hell is gonna happen to.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Her, right and and you know that like that it
doesn't take away from any of their skills because I mean, like,
you know, they've looked like the Fever have lost a
few games, but Kaylyn Clark's also been like I mean
there was that day like she hit back to back
to back, like yeah, first game up, Yeah, and that
was just and that was a takedown and undefeated Liberty
team that was the championship or champions last year. So

(41:30):
I mean you want to you want to just say
that it's just jealousy in spite. But I mean, I
don't know, maybe because I mean, she looks like she's
a trash talker too. Now you know she is, you
have to be like Larry Bird was looking exactly.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
I mean they show her slow motion and you can
read her lips pretty easily. Yeah, still, I mean to
be doing all that for that, you know, it's like.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Are you watching it?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Are you watching her?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
I mean I watched highlights, Okay, I mean I don't.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Know, I've watched it two or three times specific just
to see what she does, like the Yukon game or
the New York Yeah, and then a few others obviously
the uh the rivalry game with her Chicago. And I
don't know why. Maybe I just because I'm curious how
she does and how they treat her.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
I think too, maybe they're not used to like, like
I feel like the league isn't used to this much
publicity either, and so like they do things that like
maybe would have gone unnoticed if it's not Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
You know what I mean, it's not helping the league.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Is their meal tickets?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh yeah, I mean that's that's why. It's the only
reason people are there. And that's why I bring it up.
Why would you why would you mess with your meal ticket?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah? She it's you know, I don't understand. I don't know,
I don't know, no know how to describe it. It's
just kind of weird that they would be, you know,
kind of going after her that way.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
And yeah, and it's funny because more people are watching
because it's pretty good basketball. I mean, it's not the
basketball you we used to watch now. It's it's a
lot of movement, let up and down. Pretty good basketball. Yeah,
like high pace, high pace the game. But yeah, back
to back to what Dave was saying. I mean, oh, man,
Sophie Cunningham, she got it.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
She got a fist or handful of hair that same
game after she got not after they not Kaitlyn Klok.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
What was just later in the game.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
It was later in the game, Yeah, they it was,
I don't know, I mean, obviously they were playing the
Connecticut Connecticut Sons her son, but yeah, someone was driving
through and she like just absolutely like ripped her down
and then like you know, girl got up and she
got in her face and.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
She's like bam hair wow.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Well, yeah, it's a different style of basketball.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I guess nineteen eighty eight Detroit looks like the NHL Detroit.
It's just interesting to me, you know, because of the
dynamic of of Clark and the rest of the people.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Yeah, and it's it's actually like I bring up the
maybe they're not used to getting the attention to because
like the kind of the troll or like the fake
the fake insiders or like fake reporters on like Twitter
and stuff. They'll make jokes and sometimes you'll get like
you'll see w NBA players like respond like it's an
actual person because they just got tricked.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
And it's like, I mean, it just comes with the
you know what I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
What Twitter is all about.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
You don't know, like I asked you who the.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yeah the information was coming from, because sometimes it's just
people just being stupid on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Yeah. I mean you think about the great NBA players,
how they've been protected to I mean, the rules change.
I mean you could clearly touch Michael Jordan back in
the day. I guess you could. But now, I mean,
you touched Steph Curry and you get you get called
from a foul.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Oh look at the football with the Brady get to
the quarterback and you're in trouble.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, you know, but basketball is always kind of protected
the superstars. And I mean, I'm sure the w NB
is gonna have some conversations about this. I'm sure people
are tuning in now because of her and do they
want to watch this kind of basketball or these kind
of this kind of activity in the games. I mean,
it's dumb.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Have you watched yet?

Speaker 2 (44:50):
This is how a little bit she's And she had
that tested game the other day. I'm not ashamed to
watch it. I just don't want to see them beating
up each other. Not basketball, no, no, but the group
I was, I was like, yeah, watch it, it's kind
of fun. I'm interesting to watch it. You know, I
don't watch hockey. I don't care about the beatdowns up
they do. I just don't understand it enough to spend

(45:11):
two hours watching it.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah that's fair.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Yeah, I mean, you know, have you ever gone back
and look at those highlights from like the late eighties
with the Pistons.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
In that group, and I mean even earlier than that,
the NBA had a big problem with fighting.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Well look seventies, Look at Arizona went to the Big twelve,
and they needed to get some of the bad boys. Yeah,
they just needed to incomes the walk up. Yeah, but
I mean not fighting, get tougher. Yeah, tougher, that's something
they needed.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
But I mean, to you know, be blatantly just like
you know, pushing her and shoving her and hitting her
in the face, you know, three times on one play.
It's like, you know, come on, is that what we're
here to watch.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
No, they're not even letting the game like actually play
out at right point right, And that's gonna make it
the people not want to watch exactly. It's kind of
stupid he happening. Yeah, but I mean, I mean, you know,
it's uh, it's a good if you're not watching the
games and you're still just a sports person.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I think it feels like a good reality show, you
know what I mean, like just like keep up with Yeah,
you know, if you don't like the game, she'll be
on a commercial right during the game. I mean she's everywhere,
she's you know, she's making a fortune on her endorsements,
and she's definitely the face of that sport, and it's
kind of a shame that they're, you know, in the games,
she's getting knocked around and you know, picked on. I guess, sure.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
One thing that I did think was interesting is that
there was a lot of stars from w NBA that
played in the three, the three v three.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, the three v three. It wasn't the Big Three,
it wasn't about okay, it was like a similar new one.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Yeah, And I don't know, I thought it was interesting
that she wasn't in.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
There, Yeah, because I think the time it just happened, right, yeah,
the season, it's kind of didn't coincide, right, they're gonna
pay her a ton of money to But there were
some w NBA players.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Yeah, Like I know, Sabrina Unesco she was in there,
and then Angel Reese was in there as well.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
I don't think Page was in there yet because it
was still much madness going on.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, so that's probably why I just uh, right, But.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I mean, I don't know, it would have been interesting
to see her in it.

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
I'm sure she's picking her spots too, like she doesn't
need to do everything.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
She isn't.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
She's in that position now, she doesn't do everything. Plenty
of money coming in and doing State farm commercials, right
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Right, Well, I think the word is jealousy that you
know she's come off this way and yeah, and she's
perfect timing for her and others and others, you know,
like the one at Stanford, the tall blonde girl can'tn brink,
doesn't brink.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, I can't remember. She's doing the commercials with with
what's her.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Name, New Balance? Yeah, she doing New Balance. Yeah, she
did a New Balance with Cooper Cooper Flag.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah. She has her own podcast too though.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
And she's been injured though, right she is? Is she
even back playing yet? She didn't she blow out? She
blew out her knee?

Speaker 1 (47:48):
I think she yeah, yeah, she back. I think she is.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Okay, I'm not all the way, I'm not one hundred percent,
but I'm pretty sure she is.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
And we're talking about this now. And what's today, July
June twentieth.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
You don't we have a bigasketball game tonight?

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah? Yeah, we do, we do.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
But I'm saying this is how the summer is going
to go, because it's another month of trying to.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Figure out what we're going to talk about. Oh fun, So.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Okay, yeah, w Tonight's big game. I don't know if
you haven't breaking news, but it's going to be big.
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
The how much?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
So we can just we have three minutes, we'll talk
about that on the breaking news. You can figure out
the spreads and things like that. You see by six
and a half.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Scratching off your break breaking. You asked the question the
game and answer six and a half. I don't know
which way I'm I'm hoping for.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Okay, but because they haven't covered but one game, I
think but when they won by seven and a half,
when when Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Blew that game.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
And then and then game two and they just crushed them.
Yeah yeah, I think those are the only two covers
that they have. So we'll see what happened. Could be
ending tonight.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Man, it's good. It's that it's at Indie, right, India. Yeah,
I think they push it. I think yep, me too,
I do too. It's gonna I don't know just I
mean talking about it already.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
It's just gonna depend on Holburton though, because he's game time. Yeah,
he says he's playing. Yeah, how well that's the question.
He played last game too, and look what you wind
up doing. Yeah, we you were on with us with
the indie.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah, the guy and people talk about how come that
techs can played more often? Have a schedule and they
stick to that schedule. That's why he's been the backup
and a pretty good one.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
It's scary though, because I remember like when like obviously
fallow Golden State, like when they were under like really
big run, but like I remember, it was like the
same kind of like rumors kind of whispers like around
like Kevin Durant at that time is like calf ankle kind.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Of lower leg kind of thing, and he just ended
up like blowing out his achilles.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
Yeah. I don't know. It's scary.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
I mean because like you want to see obviously want
to see a good game between the stars and stuff
like that in the future. Yeah, because you know that
I would have you know, I never had an achilles tare,
but I would imagine that that stays with you for
the rest of Well, let's see what.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
How Jason Tatum comes back to next year. If he
even comes back there, there's a lot of them sit
out the whole season.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
There's a lot of them that stuff for that.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Yeah, so it's yeah, it's just kind of a tough call.
I mean, I hope the hope the medical staff like teams.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
To right, you know, that's why maybe one of the
worst of the injuries, right, the leg injury of that.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
It's rough. Yeah, how long you so you grew up
Golden State War?

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Not really just when they got gun on the run
I did.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Oh, yeah, that's sure.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
You guys are way back though.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, what's what Selena's you know, Seaside? I got some
got some rough rough parts.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
You know, it's right next to monitor, the mean streets
of moderate Seaside.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Yeah, it's some.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Yeah, it's a pretty area, though. I'm right on the
I don't understand why we'll get people so mad to
drive and do.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Things that the we just kept on driving. Don't look,
don't look, just drive, just drive through Mildred.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Let's go through Arizona. Used to get some players in
that area too, some high school people.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
The basketball.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
What was what was football?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Where was my guy? Ben Davidson?

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Sebastian is it Sebastian, sebastable, Sebastibal. No, I think he's
some San Francisco no, no Sebastible.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
Yeah, do you know what that is.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
It's in that area and it's near Napa, right I think, yeah,
it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Okay, can we go?

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah, that's where we're rambling.