Tuesday, May 20, Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm hoping they can hear us. I'm not too sure.
Let's go. I hope we're back on. This is Steve Rivera,
You're Dave Silver.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Then the computer didn't go on with the commercials properly.
So I'm hoping that you can just can hear us.
If you have, just text me real quick and you
can hear us. Let us know. We're gonna go through
some news of the day kind of right. You had
some stuff from involving U of A Baseball.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, seven players earned All conference recognition in the Big twelve.
First year in the Big twelve, so good news. There
seven Wildcats named of the All Conference team. None were
on the first team, though there were others. Tony Pluta
and Mason Whiteboat juniors earned second team honors, and Pluta,
by the way, was named the Big twelve Scholar Athlete

(00:46):
of the Year May during and aerospace engineering and pitching
for the Wildcats.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So he reds to him.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
He's got the twelve saves leaves the Big twelve in saves.
So you know, good honors for the U of A
team as they get ready to begin the Big Twelve
tournament later this week.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
So I got a surprising text earlier today before it
came on the show that they team up baseball team
did not get picked to go to the tournament. They
had a fantastic year forty seven and thirteen, they were
not picked as at large. We had coach Ken Hakamie
on last week. They were hopeful that did get a
large bid, but instead they did not get picked for

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the World Series. At the Junior College Series, they.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Didn't qualify through the tournament or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
No, they just didn't know. They didn't win. The lead
the tournament in the league. So forty seven and thirteen,
most wins since nineteen eighty five when they won forty eight,
they were twenty nine and eleven in ACCAC play, most
wins since eighty seven, and they had thirty. They set
a new record with forty five regular season victories. They

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earned a number one seed number two seed in the
Regional one Division two tournament and came away with a
runner up tournament trophy. They went thirty one seven at
the West Campus aztec Field and ken Hockami is two
sixty five and one eight seven seasons. So all that
and they didn't get in. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Hey, we got some breaking news though from baseball, other
baseball news. We can give credit to Javier Morales and
the guys over at All Sports tuson telling us about
some Mexican Pacific League games are gonna be played at
Quino Stadium. I guess there was a news conference earlier today,
okay about the Mayos de Navajoa from Sonora. The Mexican

(02:31):
Pacific League made it official with this press conference today.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're gonna be the first team.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Based in the US that will play in the Mexican
Winter circuits, So.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Starting, I think starting starting in the winter. Yeah, in
the winter.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well I'm gonna have I think I'm gonna have Blake tomorrow.
Blake Eager from he handles all this stuff. He couldn't
tell me anything officially, but they've been working on this
for a while obvious.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yah, we've we've kind of kind of knew something was up.
So yeah, there's always a number of either major leaguers
or maybe high minor leaguers you know, from the US
playing in these games, so there could be some names
will recognize it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
What else is that a tweet? Was that a tweet?
By story? Okay? In all sports?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
All sports, So congrats are I'm looking forward to it.
I think it's yeah, you'll be there. You know baseball,
so you'll be there, you putty, don't drink? Do you
drink like a baseball Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Just the beer.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, okay, So you got back from Bush Stadium? Well
yeah you did there. Wait, you were probably driving. You're
probably taking ubers everywhere. No, no, you're walking even better.
Yeah yeah, okay, No, that'll be fun. That'll be fun.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Just more than one team or just one team?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, I think this is the one team that's going
to be here, so that I assume they'll just be
bringing in other teams to come.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know, well they have the I bet you they're
going to have some of the the the what do.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
You call the Fall League the Mexican Baseball Yes, yeah,
you know, but the Fall League too. There.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I think you were trying to get some teams to
get into that. Yeah, maybe maybe that had been mentioned too.
I'll have Blake and maybe he can fill us in
with some of the stuff too meorrow.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Honestly, I feel bad because I don't recognize some of
these names. But the team did have four players in
major league organizations last winter.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Then they may have been you.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Know, low minor leaguers, but there are some players that
are getting a chance to play.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, it's going to be good baseball.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
It yeah, good good baseball for people who want to
go out and see the baseball programs.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
They that team has been around since nineteen fifty nine,
so they have a following.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Maybe there'll be some people coming up here. If you're listening,
I know you are, because you have nothing else to do.
You know, you can call us with this story more
information if you have it real quick before we get
to coach Pivle on anything else. I know, the Big
Pima this and you said academics with baseball, the men's
with you bank baseball. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know some guys that were made honorable mention well
for second team, Brendan summer Hill of course, who's going
to probably be a first round pick, starting pitcher, Owen Cramkowski,
Donnis Guzman, all these guys made the you know, the
all Big twelve team basically, so they're all getting set
for the tournament to start.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think tomorrow the.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Games begin, and I think the UA waits to play
the winner of I think ASU and somebody forgetting exactly
we mentioned that help play Thursday.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
And then I don't know if you want to get into.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
The Fred Harvey story, Oh ahead, please, yoh yes, that
maybe later in the show if you want. But Fred Harvey,
the longtime track coach at the u of A, announcing
his retirement after thirty eight years at the end of
this twenty twenty five outdoor season. He has been the coach,
the longest running coach at the u of A. Were
the last of the coaches hired by said Dempsey, who's

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still there, and off he goes. He's gonna you know,
he's had an incredible career. So many All Americans, eleven
national champions, you know, one hundred and sixty athletes who've
either won indoor outdoor All American honors. I mean, it's
a year after year, whether it's you know, track or field.
The cross country distance runners have been a made.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Did you give his new title? And he's gonna have
a new title.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
He's going to be coach emeritus, So I assume he'll
be involved.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
In some some way.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I don't know if my Candrea sort of has the
same thing.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, I don't know, but he's still around.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, it'll be there. It's one of the he's one
of he's never going to leave the track, right. I'm
sure we.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Had him on I don't know a week or so
ago and gave no hint to this. Obviously they gave
no hint to this, but he did sound different to me.
But yeah, what do I know?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, he's good.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I mean, he's like I said, you know, I've known
him for a long time too, and he's been part
of the u of athletic department for a long time
through all kinds of athletic directors. Some said delive and
good Rocky Lrose he was talking about today.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't know if it was a statement or if
they if they had to sit.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Down with him, but he's you know, Greg Byrne, Dave Pike,
Erica Barnes and now Desiree.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
So he's he's worked for a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
You saw his statement, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he mentioned
all of them.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
So, okay, do you see that they're going to have
flag football?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You need, They're gonna have flag football at the Olympics
right right now they have NFL.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
People, can you imagine what that's going to be? Like crazy,
that's going to be. That's going to be at the
LA Olympics, right yeah, like they need more, right, more crazy.
It just takes away the the chance for non NFL
players to Yeah, that was more. I thought they were
looking more like college players in college. I'm sure they
were until now amateurs so called amateurs. But mhm, where

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I wonder where they're gonna play. It's been out there,
but because I mean, they have so many stadiums in California,
I know they're using it for soccer.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And did you go in eighty four? I'd like to go.
Would you like to cover it?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (07:40):
What this next? One of the Olympics?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I covered the Greek the Greece one and the the
Sydney one. For USA today, I don't know, it's this
is I'm old. I'm well, dude, by the time I'll
be sixty fourish. It's it's it's a lot of work,
eighteen hour days. Probably not and traffic is crazy. Back
in the day, they I'm sure same thing you lived
in all in a media in the media area media hut,

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and then they the buses took you wherever you needed
to go. Those were the good things. The bad things
that you still have to do with the traffic.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, I think I'm now at the stage too, well,
I would go as a spectator.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, and you can just pick and choose. Let's see
what I can get tickets from.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You know, I'm sure it's going to be impossible for
some things, you know, if you want to go watch
you know, archery or something like that.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Do you remember much of the eighty four you were
just still kind of starting here.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Here, Yeah, you know, I mean obviously it was at
the coliseum.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I remember.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Carl Lewis was huge. The Olympic team was was you know,
Jordan what didn't that year? Jordan didn't make the team?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Maybe No, I don't think so. I'm eighty eight was
eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
It was kind of a wheelhouse that was like Sean
too and Shawn didn't make it, right.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
No, I mean it was it was a big deal
to have the Olympics back in the United States because
it hadn't been here for a long time. What have
we not had the Olympics since Atlanta ninety six? Yeah,
that was the Inpas bombing. That one night. I remember
we were on the air. I think I don't know
if ABC was covering. It might have been an NBC
game NBC broadcast, but I remember being on the set

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and things were going crazy, and sure, there's this explosion.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
The God I was thinking about the bomber that they
said bomb, but it wasn't. God. I just just a
couple of days ago because it kind of changed journalism.
How they really messed with him. And then you have
to get sources because they screwed that story up.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
What was his name? God?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
They did a movie about it. I saw the movie too,
and I was thinking about this yesterday. I don't know why,
but it was it was I want to say Jeffrey,
but it's not Jeffrey.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Are you googling now? Was it Eric Rudolph? No?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
He was the Yeah, he was the dude that they yeah,
that they didn't know he was hiding in the woods. God,
Richard Jewel. That's it, the Richard Jewel situation. They blamed
very sad. They ruined his life, him and his mom's life,
chasing him down and doing all these things, and.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
He just wanted to be a security guard. Yeah, it was. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
It talks about some of the innocence of our time
on television in those years too, because I remember I
can't remember exact time of night it happened, but I
was at this I might have been the only anchor
at the station.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
It was everybody. It was a dinner. It was about
seven eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
So I remember, well.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Going on going on to the set. We need you
out there talking about this. We had nothing.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
I mean we had you know, I had our producer
talking to my ear the entire time saying, okay, you
know there's this, and I think ABC may have cut
in to whatever their programming because NBC was covering it,
covering the games then.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
But yeah, this is another one of those moments, like
almost thirty years ago. Yeah, I was able to pull
it off. And you talk about innocence and journalism, Well, no, really,
we had nothing.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know, we didn't have laptops, we didn't have instant
news coming to use.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
I didn't have we didn't.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Have phones, your cell phone, Twitter or anything like that
getting information.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So somebody was really feeding or were you you were?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I was at dinner and get back to the the set.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Somebody needs to go out there and cut in. We're
gonna cut it in and do something. Oh I see,
I see the programming break.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Into whatever, you know, full house or whatever we were showing,
you know, right, So it was it was a It
was a great moment.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, that was a very sad broadcasting.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
That was very sad when that eventually news came out
that he was not the guy, but it was the
Richard rich the other guy, yeah, who had bombed a
few things.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, Richard Jewel was the was the hapless former cop, Yeah,
turned security guard and they thought that, you know, he
had some some bag. But how did we get off
to the subject.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Just just just Olympics with the play football situation, having
covered having covered a couple Yeah, yeah, no I didn't go.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I did not go to eighty four, but we did
have our legendary Ed Sorenson, our sportscaster who was there
I worked with, was there and tried to cover it.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was hard. It was even in those years. It
was difficult.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
It was a local station because you didn't really have
any access to anything. Even then, well, he was ware,
he was he was in l Al.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah. It's just it's just not what people think. It's
it's a lot of it.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
And back in two thousand, two thousand and four, it
was after the two thousand wasn't like this two thousand
and four. Uh, security was crazy because the bombing us.
It was it was military people with machine guns everywhere.
I mean, just felt surreal. It's just kind of wow,
this is the world we live in and probably will
live in the rest of our lives.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I guess. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
It was just just at the time just so heavy.
Now not so much at least, I don't think so.
It's gonna be interesting how LA handles this. Oh yeah,
of course, of course, especially with the World.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Cup coming next year, it'll be kind of a try
run to see how these international events are going to
be going on in the United States.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, okay, what time is said?

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We got about fourteen, LESCo He's gonna call us Coach
Peple's gonna call us in about three four minutes and
we'll talk championship again.

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This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Want to take part in the show call out Steve
now went five to two oh four, one, six seventy
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Speaker 2 (17:24):
Hey, welcome back to my the ball Here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
is Dave silver. Now on the phone, we have coach
Danny Prebble from South Point Championship Baseball team. Coach, how
you doing doing very well? Thank you great, great another
championship for south Point. How was it not that it
was easy last night? But uh, tell us about last night.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Never easy.

Speaker 12 (17:49):
You know the boys, they've been fired up for a
long time for this and uh, they showed up and
showed out really well last night. They were they were
excited to be there and and they put it on the.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Field for sure.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Nice to get up eight to nothing quickly too, and
that's kind of how things settled as far as the
final score goes, too.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Yeah. Absolutely, you know.

Speaker 12 (18:12):
We we we learned our lesson in the first game
of the playoffs against Saint Mary's.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
You know, we command confident.

Speaker 12 (18:21):
Playing well and you look up in the bottom of
the fourth inning and we're chasing seven runs.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
It's like, oh, this is this is real? You know.

Speaker 12 (18:29):
So from there on out, we we really got out
of the gates fast against the remaining teams.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
That we played. You know, we we got out.

Speaker 12 (18:37):
Fast in the in the semi against Ironood Ridge and
had had an opportunity to really blow things out of
the water, and then we kind of sculped for a
few ins.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
And made it interesting in the end.

Speaker 12 (18:47):
But you know, coming out and fast really helped us
in the in the last four games of the tournament.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Was it This is a dumb question, but you get
that scare, Uh it wakes you up? Or you know,
was that what woke you up? And it okay, you
know we can't do this again.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah. I think it was a big wake up call.

Speaker 13 (19:04):
You know.

Speaker 12 (19:04):
We we we spent a week in Vegas, and I
thought that that was gonna be kind of a wake
up call for us. We went up there and and
we went one and three on the week, and you
step back and you realize we lose three one run
ball games in Vegas to some really really high level
competition over there. So it was, you know, we're we're

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in close ball games with really competitive team.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
So there wasn't really a like a smack in the mouth,
if you will. You know. Then we come back and
we get back into region play and we go to
Mica and and and handle them pretty pretty easily that day.
And then the end of the week we go down.

Speaker 12 (19:40):
To No Gallas and No Gallas was ready for us,
and they really put it on us. You know, they
beat us eleven to one down at their place, and
we we didn't have an answer for anything.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
You know, our guy on the mound that night.

Speaker 12 (19:53):
And Estabjorkez threw really well. And then you look up
and we're getting beat eleven to one. You know, they're
putting balls and play. We did a few things that
weren't real normal for us, and I think that was
the start of the wake.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Up call, you know.

Speaker 12 (20:07):
And then we have a game against Fotill's to wrap
up this season on that Monday in a week to
prepare for Saint Mary's, and not that we were overlooking them,
but gosh, they came in and they were they were
hitting pitches that you know, you would you would see
getting balls over their heads and down in the dirt,
and you know, it was just like a blatty Guerrero

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show because they were putting everything in play and putting
it in play hard. And then, you know, like I said,
you look up and it's down. We're down seven zero
going into the fourth. It's like, oh boy.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
So that you know, we had a few hurdles towards
the end of the.

Speaker 12 (20:41):
Season, but the Saint Mary's when I think really kick
things into gear for us.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
How much did you lean on your seniors? He got
a huge senior class with thirteen guys out.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
There, thirteen guys, huge senior class. Leaned on them every day.

Speaker 12 (20:56):
You know, they were our leaders, Lucy saying, and it's
been our catcher for most of the year.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Isaiah Moraga, who was our number one guy in the
Moundboy year, I see.

Speaker 12 (21:08):
Again, Uh had had a really great year for us,
and you know, he had every opportunity to kind of
tuck his tail and run and hide, but he didn't.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
You know, he scuffled pretty bad in the middle of
the season.

Speaker 12 (21:21):
And we sat him down and Uh, we put a
freshman out there in his place, and the freshman had.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
A good two weeks. You know, talk about getting smacked.

Speaker 12 (21:30):
In the mouth and saying, oh, you know, I just
lost my job, and you know, all the way through it,
he was a great teammate. He was a team first
guy and continued to grind and continue it.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
And it wasn't anything that he was doing wrong. He
was just scuffling.

Speaker 12 (21:45):
And you know, we put him back in the lineup,
and I think he ended up being our lead and
hitter for the for the remainder of the season and
really carried the the middle of that lineup for us.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
It's funny baseball kind of teaches those lessons, right you
sent somebody down or whatever, it could go either right,
and it went right for you guys, and for him.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
It absolutely did.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
It absolutely did because he's a You talked about him
being a pretty good kid, level head, stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, you know, in our program, our our guys.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
May not always like it, m M, but they're always
gonna get the absolute truth.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
You know, why aren't you playing?

Speaker 8 (22:23):
Why?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Why why am I not playing? Coach, Well, this is why.

Speaker 12 (22:26):
And they have a very good understanding, and we have
really good relationships.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
With our kids, so we have the ability to just
be black and white with them. You're not doing X,
Y and Z, but this guy is right now. Okay,
I don't like it.

Speaker 12 (22:38):
I'm gonna work on it, and I'm gonna try and
I'm gonna try and get my spot back. And sometimes
it works in the ostile situation and other situations it didn't,
but you just keep grinding, and.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
All of our kids really did a good job of
that all all season this year.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Lucas Shannon obviously, great record, perfect record, big big game yesterday,
and he's going to what you Niversity of San Diego.
So he's going to continue on after this.

Speaker 12 (23:03):
Yeah, he's he He was kind of our our basing
the hole, if you will.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
You know, obviously he's.

Speaker 12 (23:11):
Going to USD and going into this season, I would
guess that he was going.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
There primarily to be an arm.

Speaker 12 (23:18):
For them, but he's also a very good catcher and
he really really had a great year at.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
To play for US this year.

Speaker 12 (23:25):
So you know, I think usd's got a potential two
way guy on their hands, and at least they should
look really hard at it.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
But with that in mind, we told.

Speaker 12 (23:34):
Luke's at the beginning, you're gonna catch for us, and
you know we're gonna we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Spot start you and get you.

Speaker 12 (23:41):
A couple of innings on the mound, you know, in
a relief situation, and just try to keep you fresh
for the end of the season, similar to what we
did with.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Cad McGee back in twenty one.

Speaker 12 (23:52):
Uh, you know, he came out and through at the
end of the season for US and actually he was
he closed.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
The game out in nineteen when we won it.

Speaker 12 (24:00):
And then we use Kate in twenty one very sparingly,
you know, in a big game situation, if you will.
And he beat Ceo that year in the in the
semi to get us to the championship. So, you know,
kind of the same idea we did with Lucas this
year was it was fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Along with this kid. If you have thirteen seniors, how
many of them are moving on to play?

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Right now?

Speaker 12 (24:21):
We have five I believe that have committed, but there
are another three or four of them that are on
the books somewhere just trying to make a final decision
what they're going to do.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, so talent talented, So now you lose thirteen, right,
You're always thinking ahead?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
So what are you thinking for next year?

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah? I think the future is bright for us.

Speaker 12 (24:43):
You know, we've got a great program top to bottom
and a lot of guys that really want to be
there and playing that program and play for that school.
You know, And I think a lot of people would
look at as it as a rebuild, but you know,
we're just gonna keep going and doing what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think I think will be good.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Does the rebuild begin this summer?

Speaker 4 (25:07):
For you?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Are these kids are gonna kind of stay together as
a team as they go off and play summer baseball.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
How does that work.

Speaker 12 (25:13):
We're actually gonna make a little bit of a change
this year. We're gonna we're gonna not do anything this
summer because it just is.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
All very quick, you know, when you play, When you
play into May and.

Speaker 12 (25:26):
Graduation and in the school and finals and all the
things that these kids have.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
To be challenged by.

Speaker 12 (25:36):
It makes it difficult to get the summer season doing
because the summer season in a in a normal calendar,
If we were doing our normal thing, our summer season
would start this coming weekend at a tournament in Prescott.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
You know, so there's no no break there.

Speaker 12 (25:51):
So we're just gonna take the summer off as a
as a program. You know, all of our guys are
gonna go do something somewhere and then we'll pick back
up in the fall and go with our normal.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Fall program and get ready for January starting in August.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, no one really talks about that, especially in high school.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's almost three sixty five pretty much.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
It is. It is. You know, if they're not playing
with us, they're playing somewhere else. You know. We try
to have conversations with guys about you know, where are
you gonna play, who you're gonna play with? What are
you looking to get out of it?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
You know?

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Is this an organization?

Speaker 13 (26:27):
And there are organizations out there that are that are
using kids in general, not just our kids, but they're
using kids to you know, make their name in the
club world if you will, you know.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
So, you know, we've gotten reports back, you know, so
and so through one hundred and forty pitches this weekend.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Why right, Well, they told us that there were going
to be college coaches there. Well, did you look at
a calendar?

Speaker 12 (26:52):
You know, is it a is it a dead period
for college coaches that they can't be there?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Is it a you know, what kind of a what
kind of eyes were on you?

Speaker 12 (27:03):
So those are the kinds of questions that we try
to help our kids navigate and make sure that they're
doing what's best for.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Them, not only for their future, but for their health.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Currently, did you coach Mason White? Was he there with you?

Speaker 5 (27:17):
He was?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah? How his career is going with the U of A.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Not not not real surprising, not real surprising? You know, Uh,
he can really swing it.

Speaker 12 (27:31):
Oh boy, Yeah, I haven't gotten the opportunity this year
with everything else that's going on to get out there
and see him. But you know, you see the highlights
on social and you try and watch it, pick up
a ball game here and there on TV.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
And it's been a lot better now in the Big
twelve because they're basically on every every game.

Speaker 12 (27:46):
And it's easy to see unlike the old Pac twelve network, right,
you know, so it's easy to watch him.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
But uh, he's he's had a great career.

Speaker 12 (27:54):
Would not surprise me in the least if if he
goes somewhere pretty high in the draft this summer, is it?

Speaker 2 (28:02):
This might be another dumb question because I played a
little a little ball. Uh, his grit, determination, his hard work,
How did he become the player he became.

Speaker 12 (28:14):
I'd like to think that a lot of it came
from and during our program for four years. And I
know that at some point, you know, he'll sit down
and realize that that we had a part in that.
But his bloodlines are deep, you know. His his grandfather

(28:35):
played at DUV played in the Reds organization. His grandfather
was one of our teachers atself point for a long time,
and to hear some stories of his from back in
the day in spring training with the Big Red Machine
and Johnny Bench and Pete.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Rows and all those guys. It was just I was
in awe.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Who's what's the name Tim White? Tim White? Ok?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Because I was with David and I Taker, but the
Big Red Machine all the time, and it's like we
you know, the Pete Rose situation now and Johnny Bench
and all these guys. Okay, I'll have to look that up.
I don't remember that name, but okay.

Speaker 12 (29:09):
And then his dad was a great player at south Point,
a GATORAD Player of the Year at south Point. And
then make Sound of the UFA had a great play
at the UFA. And you know, now Mason's just falling
down the line and it's been fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Totally totally makes sense. Yeah, I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Give any other any other guys going to the u
of A from this crop of players.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Or not from this class. We do not have anybody
going to the.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Uv So this is your second one. Twenty nineteen was
your other. Can you compare contrast or just totally different?

Speaker 4 (29:42):
The one in twenty nineteen was a blur.

Speaker 12 (29:45):
You know, we had the great opportunity of getting to
the championship game. In twenty seventeen, we played against No
Gallas at Hi.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Corvette, and.

Speaker 12 (29:59):
I don't think we were quite ready to be in
that ball game yet and No Gallas No Gallas beat
us up pretty good.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
You know.

Speaker 12 (30:06):
It's that first time being in a not for the school,
but in our era of the program.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
First time being there, you know, in the big stage
and all.

Speaker 12 (30:16):
The people at High Corporate and No Gallas always travels
really well, and so you know, it was wow.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
And then all of a sudden the volumes over and
we're we're picking up the runner up trophy.

Speaker 12 (30:27):
So in twenty nineteen we were a little bit more
prepared for the big stage. But you know, winning the
winning the first state championship in baseball in school history,
and and doing so against a team that probably man
for man, we shouldn't have been on the field with
that with Mesquite and you talked about great determination with

(30:50):
Mason and that would be that team.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Right.

Speaker 12 (30:54):
We were undersized basically every position, you know, and and
to come away toious in that one, it was an
absolute blur.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Comparing it to to to last night. You know, you
know a little bit more what to expect if it
goes your way.

Speaker 12 (31:11):
Yeah, but it's still you know, it's still very numby.
You know, you sit it, you shit it in and
out after the ballgame at eleven o'clock and you're just
sitting there in your thoughts and it's like, wow, what
what did we just do?

Speaker 4 (31:27):
You know? It goes so fast, you know.

Speaker 12 (31:30):
And and the biggest takeaway of all of it is
is the kids. You know, the dog piles and throwing
water on everybody, and the smiles.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
And the hugs and the and the I love yous,
and it was just it was incredible.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Sure, what a great story it is for these kids too.
You know, we're a bunch.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Of old guys talking about we think about our high
school years and some of the memories. But what a
great memory this is going to be for them to
look back on and they're they're going to always have
this story as part of their life.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 12 (31:58):
You talk about you know, the stories and the memories.
You know, that's one of the reasons that I got
into this. You know, I didn't have the opportunity to
play in the state championship game in high school.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
We got close, but the.

Speaker 12 (32:11):
Memories and the teammates and the bonds that that I
have with the guys that I played with, and my
biggest baseball mentor next to my dad, my biggest baseball
mentor on the planet, Kent Winslow, and and everything that
we learned under him unbelievable. And then for him to
show up last night and and be there and give
him a big old hug, it was.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Do you guys come back together or you guys come
back separately? And on a bus or whatever.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
We were We were on a bus.

Speaker 12 (32:40):
A couple of our kids came home with our parents,
but we brought We took thirty two and we came
home with thirty so, you know, to try and get
a few winks.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
On the on the bus trip home, yeah, possible. It was.

Speaker 12 (32:52):
It was rocking and there were strobe lights and and
you know, the disco ball was out and it was
it was a fun ride home.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
That's I wanted to say.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
And do you have time to I don't know, reflect
on that ride home, you know, two two and a
half hours, whatever it is, because you know the kids,
the story is about the kids, right, But sometimes sometimes
the coach needs to indulge with some fun too, and
that not indulges, but you do enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah, for sure, it was.

Speaker 12 (33:19):
You know, you sit there and and and you and
you talk with the coaches and and and I would
be remiss if I didn't mention our coaching staff.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
You know, all eleven and more guys on the on
the three levels. And then you know it's it's.

Speaker 12 (33:33):
Been an incredible ride because of their leadership. You know,
when when we started this in two thousand and nine,
I got a phone call from coach Winslow and and
he asked me because I was fortunate enough to take
over the program after he left, and uh, he called
me and he said, you're ready to be the next
baseball coach of the Lanches. And and I didn't really

(33:54):
know what was going on at that point. I hadn't
heard anything. And and I said absolutely. He goes, well,
I think it's coming your way. And the next phone
call I made was to to Vicacunya. And you know,
he's been he's been our my.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Right hand man, and our brotherhood has has.

Speaker 12 (34:10):
Been so strong and none of this, absolutely none of
this happens without him around.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
So but Vic has been an integral, integral.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
Part of all of it, and and all of our
coaches that that show up every day and and grind
these guys out and make them better baseball players, but
more importantly better kids and young men.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Uh, it's been it's been a great year.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's really been a good yeest how many how many
championships does the school have this year?

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Soccer won one? Right games this year?

Speaker 12 (34:43):
This year we had four, so we have boys and
girls soccer, gholst tennis was what was that last week
two weeks ago? And then we won ours last night
and over the weekend our our softball team and boys
volleyball team came up just a little bit short, but
take home a couple of runner ups.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
So it's it's been a great year for South Point Catholic.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Well do you guys do that pretty often? You guys
are pretty consistent with what you guys do. Coach, appreciate
your time. It was great, great stuff. Enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, congrats, thank you very much, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah yeah, coach Danny Pripple from the South Point, Well,
appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah, boy, what a year for sell Point too.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
He's talking about four for state championships, a couple of
runner ups, suple runner ups. I mean they're always competitive
in the big sports too, so you know it's good
and they again these athletes, student athletes get a chance
to go on and play elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Sure thirteen seniors. Yeah, you know numbers already have scholarships.
And he says the program was in good shape.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, it's a pipeline you know that continue to do
what they do, maybe not win a title, but be
competitive tough.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
I know they just every time you look up, you know,
who are the top teams right, basically, and that's always
been the case.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Here, no question.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
And I want to ask you, so you say today
did a just a quick mock draft, the latest one
came out, just a little bit of go. If you're
a guessing, what do you think, mister Carter Bright, I
haven't so I don't know, right, That's why I wanted
to be surprised to you.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
I'm hearing. How about ninth? Good question?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
And if you were Carl Bryant and you decided to
stay in the draft, wouldn't you think that you'd go?
You do it without a question if you're a lottery guy,
right right? Top fourteen they have him at twenty. Ooh yeah, yeah,
I was looking in the top ten. Oh he's not there. Fourteen,
he's not there. And of course all these are not scientific,

(40:27):
or they're not always accurate or whatever, because everybody has
a different opinion. He's twenty to Miami. Another guy at Miami,
which would be funny with the three guys two guys
already there. Yeah, that would seem kind of a stretch.
He was definitely staying in right, and the last week
you saw his press conferences and things like that, he
was always going to stay in. But it's almost you

(40:49):
have to have an assurance that you're going to be
in the top fourteen.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
You know, And that's what you would think that he
was hearing that from somebody to stick around and not
come back.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well, it can always change, right.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
We heard earlier in one of the breaking news things
that at number three, Philly might change or might trade
some picks or a pick that pick to go to Phoenix. Oh,
to get to get KD. That whole mix in Phoenix is.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Just a mess. They just need to blow it. Get
something changed there. Anything.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Got to find a coach. I wonder if I have
a coach before the draft.

Speaker 16 (41:21):
Don't?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh yeah, good question. They should.

Speaker 16 (41:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Let me ask you, so you covered sports here in
Tucson thirty some years, right, thirty some years because you
got here before I did. Out of the thirty some
team thirty some years. That's assume per second you covered
three or four teams consistently. Well, right, you a football,
you a basketball, maybe another team or two softball. Okay,

(41:49):
so three teams, all those teams, how many of those
teams do you think didn't have the chemistry they needed
to win it? I don't want to identify I don't want.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
You to identify it.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Hard to It's kind of hard to say because I
don't know how we as reporters could.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Tell that sometimes.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, I mean you could sort of tell maybe by
body language and maybe somebody would give somebody a dirty
look on the bench in a basketball game and think,
what am I going? You know, these guys getting along.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Right, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I mean I think they were go ahead, No, I
don't know, a lot of them have been really good.
I'll say, maybee, I couldn't tell you exactly which ones. Uh,
maybe I could, but I won't. Uh, three or four
and that's been that's three teams, four teams of all
these years. That's a lot of good ones. I think
the sumone thing you could the last one you could
definitely say that was just a that was just a

(42:41):
that was a disaster, disaster good. I was gonna cuss
and use a bad word, a disaster and maybe the
year before was just a disaster.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yeah. Where it comes to chemistry and talent.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Thing too is remember we're talking about you know, eighteen
to twenty two year old kids in most cases, and
they're you know, they got the little attitude going anyway,
they all think they're the best. They're in the star
of their high school teams. In most cases, when they
come to the college programs and you know, they get
upset because they're not getting playing time or sure there's
something going on behind the scenes that we just don't know.

(43:14):
So it was hard for us to tell, like, why
didn't it work this year? I guess we could sure
maybe you know, put it under that heading. It was
hard sometimes for us even to realize, and we would
hear stories later, Oh, you know, they just didn't get
along there anything, Like this guy he thought he should
be getting more playing time.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
And people don't understand how important that chemistry is, if
not the most important part of it.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, the beauty of these two high school stories we've
talked about today is that a lot of these kids
grew up together, right, played in the neighborhood, maybe even
more so at Empire. When you're out there in Veil,
you know, you probably have a collection of players at
all you know, started playing when they were eight years old, and.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
When their coaches, the summer league coach with the the
you know, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mean, South Point seems to collect players from all over
and that's just the way they are and they can
do that. But you know, to have that chance to
play in the summertime and for these kids to grow
up in these neighborhoods. You see it all the time
in Tuson's Sorrow. You know, body socks was always a
big thing, and they would always have great softball players,
soccer teams, you know, all kind of matriculating to sell

(44:15):
point or some of the other calling Foothills has had
great success.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
In so sure.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
So you came from California, you stand in the weeks
of Obispo, right or you were in San Diego.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
I was up and down the coast.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
So when you first got your eighty three whatever it
was what struck you the most about sports and Tucson.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
The good thing was that there was a lot to do,
much enough to cover, a lot to cover. Yeah, that
was kind of the beauty. Like it's kind of with
why I was interested. It was not Phoenix, but you
had spring training and you had you had bowling, you
had two major golf tournaments. You had you know, a
major university, you had a ton of high schools.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
So there was a lot going on here right in
a smallish but bigish town. Right, still kind of feels
that way. But you know, you bring up bowling, that's
funny because it was. It was big here. It was
for a long time. Pete Town Tess in that group.
But they finally changed that building, they finally finished finished
that building in the county lost.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
We lost Pete Town Tess recently. Yeah, yeah, he was
if you were a bowler in Tucson, you knew you.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, you knew him.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
And I know in the media he loved to talk
about his tournament.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
He was a guy that I don't know. He had
this twinkle in his eye.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
We started talking about golden and a good dude, great guy.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, a good dude. Uh so bowling, you're you're you're right.
I just felt when I first got here. I got
here in eighty seven, but I was an intern here
in eighty five, and I just remember, God, this baseball,
this place for little kid softball, little girls playing softball.
You talk about your your the socks. What did you say, Bobby, Bobby? Yeah,
And I remember, like a hass Yet you had a

(45:50):
kid playing just these names. We had kids playing Bobby socks.
And I would did stories and that it was an
intern and then boxing was fantastically good back then. You know,
some of the world championship fights at certain levels came
through here.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Well, remember when Kronk came in from Detroit, Detroit, right
all of a sudden, I don't know, Tommy Hearns didn't fight.
Emmanuel Stewart, the great trainer comes into tuc Sons training
fighters here. It was crazy time for that. Sure, I
don't think we realized how amazing that was.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It used to be one of the great places to
have a boxing here. And then you know tugar Ay
came through, so did Oscar de la Hoya with their
group a lot in the recent years ten years.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Want to do a story on that, Yeah, I had
a book.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I don't know. People would buy one book and didn't
share it. But actually the history of the of the
Tucson love for boxing and it's still there, but I
don't know where it is.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
I don't know either. I don't either.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I mean, you know, it's funny. We were driving, we
were doing something in town recently. We're driving in the
neighborhood kind of near the freeway in Saint Mary's. There
was a gym back in the day.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
I remember right on the corner, right on the corner
it was Grant. I think it was Grant where you
go over the bridge kind of like in that corner. Yeah,
Roger Roger, Roger Woods, I think right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yeah, and it's like that was a gym at one point.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, but no, I want to say Twelfth Avenue maybe
there was there.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
There's one down there too, there was one down there.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Yeah, I mean it was it was a seriously like
something out of a movie. You go in there and
it was you know, it was hot. There might have
been some fans blowing. Did you watch Creed and Rocky
the recent ones. Yeah, those gyms were famous for that.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
I don't think. I don't think we have that. Maybe
we do.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Maybe it's a little more corporate now we got all
these like boxing ink places like that, But as far
as it's like grassroots, Hey, let's take the kid down
to the gym and get him trained. Yeah, those those
stories is kind of amazing.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I even want to say, because Bruce would know this
because we covered boxing together night. My memories going, uh,
there was the kid not kid anymore, but he was
on the big the box off that had a competition
and he made it. Yeah, it made it. On made
it to the finals.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Or whatever.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
So again I can't remember. Yeah, another fifteen years ago.
Good stuff, great stuff. Tucson has that history of good
old time sports.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yeah, well Harold, give him a plug.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
But like if you're driving down Grant towards the freeway
heading uh west, there's that play Taco One's Taco called
on Grant on Grant, Well, that they had a kid,
I believe named one who was a boxer and he
would train there. So I remember, like they go, where
does he trained at the restaurant? I mean it was

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that type of stuff that was going on, so Taco,
I think.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
It's called Okay, I didn't didn't know that. Yeah, a
lot of good boxers, dicky parents, we had. I had
what's his name, remember him, Mike Morreano. I think he's
a back in the eighty five. I know he fought,
he fought him. Uh, he's a comic now he's one
of the guys, got it, Joey Modina, That's what it is,

(48:54):
is a comic.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
He fought those guys. Remember at the Great Hell Park.
He still fights at the Great Hell Park.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Well, again, going back to we were talking Olympics ninety two,
the US Olympic boxing team trained and Servista and that's
where De la Hoya emerged. So I remember we went
down there. I don't know if you had a chance
to go down there, but they're training a camp at
Fort wa Chuka.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Uh and it was De la Hoya and there were
a few others.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
I'm sure that I don't remember that he was here
Southern Arizona. He came back a lot. Yeah, he came
back to be like a promoter.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yeah, yeah, no question, and he's still kind of is
with Golden Boy that kind of he has become a singer.
Uh No, no entertaining, No, he had, but those were
those were the good old days too. Michael Carba Hall
from Phoenix. Yes, yeah, he came box down here. I
think so maybe once or twice TCC. We had Macho

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Camacho at the TCC. So there's been people that have
come through here.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
I had a brief The only time I ever did
boxing play by play was here in town.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
I don't even remember what it was.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
I think it was a CROs event possibly, but yeah,
I somehow got you know, Dave listen.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
It was pretty good and we was on TV and
it was one of these things again we're talking ninety
early nineties maybe early nineties, and I don't even know
where it aired.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
You know, Oh, it's going to be on in Puerto Rico,
Like oh really, okay, yeah yeah, I mean this is
like nowadays.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
It would be it would be streamed someplace, but back
then then, you know, I think they taped it, yeah,
and put it on somewhere internationally.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Dave, I think we got to go run out of time.
Thanks for being with me today.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
I see you guys tomorrow and talk probably a lot
about baseball things.