Tuesday, March 25, Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
And good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and
with me today is Dave Silver. Running the board is Kobe.
So should be a good show today. God, you guys
didn't get into the transfer portal, thank you?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Not yet?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Nobody mean yet yesterday?

Speaker 5 (00:32):
Did it?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
It just open?

Speaker 5 (00:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
But there's sor my options, you and everybody else.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
There's more than no puddy a thousand. Do you know what, Kobe?
What's the number?

Speaker 6 (00:41):
Fair out?

Speaker 7 (00:41):
What the number was?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It was like five hundred in the matter of minutes yesterday,
so I'm sure the minutes of God, and there's probably
double that now. Yeah, a few of the Arizona women's team.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is there anybody left? I close the door if you do.
There's a draft. It's crazy, it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
But you know, like I said, the portal open yesterday
and the women and some of the guys, not the
man in Arizona of course, but the women have made
their decisions and we'll see what the idea does with
how she reacts, she going to try to get some
of them back.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I'm sure so you'll try or not.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, it's I mean, man, I know every school goes
through this because of the situation and money and comfort.
You know, back in the day for us when we
cover the team, David and you know this, ye maybe
one didn't come back at Christmas time and they were gone,
and lou was okay with that. But at the end

(01:34):
of the season, maybe one was gone because they didn't
see playing time at least. When I covered the team
back in the day and I was writing the books,
many of them said to me, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
I was kind of immature.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I should have stayed because I went somewhere else and
it didn't pan out there either.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Really, only a handful of them, did yeh think about it? Well,
you give me, give me will buying them maybe well,
you know once he.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Left, Yeah, that's a good number. There were not too
many of that. Ruben Douglas, I guess a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Mexico.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
He went to New Mexico, but he didn't play professionally,
you know, at that level. But you're right, he was
like this, the nation's leading scorer. He wasn't going to
do that here obviously with Gilbert around, and he saw
the writing on the wall right away.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
But it's interesting because the women players that left, most
of them are really underclassmen and big time recruits. What's
her name, Tsioga? Yeah, Jada Williams is extremely is a
huge influencer in women's basketball too, So that's just a
big Yeah. She's one of these people that's got like
a million followers and things like that, so that's going

(02:37):
to mean a lot. With her nil situation too, I'm
sure maybe she's looking elsewhere where she can get more.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, well, good luck to them. I mean the kid
from New Mexico, Dent. I don't know if you followed
the Yeah, I saw that he went. He went, and
he says he could come back. He's just trying to
explore his options and see how much he could he
can grab. I mean, and that's what it is now,
it's somebody grabbed. Yeah. Are you a question?

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I asked?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
You thought I have best ear sports fan? Right of course,
yes see, And I'm not. And it started. It started
a while back because this is what I do for
a living, and I don't really don't get tied to
any teams or anybody anymore. And and here's one of
the big reasons, the free agency stuff. Yeah, you know,
if I like this guy back in the day, they
didn't have that. You know, they stayed together until they didn't.
Right now, it's like, this team goes here, this guy

(03:20):
goes here, and they're not the same team. Where's my loyalty? Hell,
I don't want to deal with this, So I'm not
gonna I'm just gonna watch the game.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
It is hard to be a fan knowing you don't
know what your team's gonna look like in three weeks,
you know, basically could completely turn over.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
And to and to that point, Dave, I've been reading
a lot on Facebook and Twitter.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, so you're a UA fan.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
You're a UA women's basketball fan, right, You've got season
tickets that are relatively inexpensive. You fell in love with
this team, this program, and you buy buy the jerseys,
You spend some money on the team, and you just
bout a jersey.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I don't know how much it costs. She's no longer
on the team, Yeah, she's got I don't know how
that worked. You know, what do you do?

Speaker 5 (04:00):
I mean, I think most fans are, at least in
college basketball, I would think are fans of the school,
maybe a little more than the players themselves.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right, So you're buying a jersey with just Arizona, You're
not buying with somebody's name on it.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
I mean, I've got like a Diamondbacks jersey. I don't
know Jim back shirts without a number, so it's just
the team. He kind of like those kinds of things.
But you're right, I mean, there are gonna be some
that are going to stick out, you know, but you know,
the Curs and the Shawn Elliotts and people like that.
You get those number jersey, it's gonna be something special
but from the past. But if you've got a current
player and you got, like, what's Jada William's number, I'm
gonna go out.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I don't even know what it is. Right, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
She's gone, right, and you're gonna say, God, I'm glad
I didn't get our jersey.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, But it was like last year there was a
kid who maybe who's anybody who's listening to the kid
who's on the football program, and I guess he stayed.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
He pitched his jersey and then he left does that
you remember that?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, so you know I'm staying.
I guess he's staying, or said he's staying. Go buy
my jersey, Go buy jersey, and then boom.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
He was pitching. He was actually pitching it, and I think, so,
I think that.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I don't think I'm talking to my butt, but you
know that could be. But that's what was the case,
you know, by on jersey and then I'm out of here.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yeah, I mean the Walkout women's team has lost players
over and over again in the last you know, four
or five years since they were in the national championship game.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's just been kind of weird to see that happening.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
And you'd think it would go the opposite way and
the players would want to come, want to stay right,
have a chance again, and if they go.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
To you know, fairness Idea was on the show about
this time last year, maybe in the summer. We had
her on and she threw something that through Jay and
I and through me for sure, well, this is we
have no money, We have no money to get How
am I going to compete with these big time schools
when you have one hundred and fifty thousand dollars whatever.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Guess what all these programs that are Arizona are below
maybe even the ones a little above probably don't have money, true, sure,
And so how are you going to compete with the
LSU's and those guys. Well, they've had an established, this
stablished road to what they where they.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
Go to, right, right, I mean that have people who've
been giving to those programs before the nil days yea,
the Yukon's of the world and usc even you know
out west. But yeah, I mean there's a big disadvantage
to the teams. I mean, like you know, like I said,
the Wildcasts, we were nothing really until a couple of
years ago, and then they get big and they have
a great, you know, great little run there for a
couple of years, and then you know, now that things

(06:23):
have fallen off, it'll be interesting to see how they
recover as a program.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Right.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
If she's going to stick around, if they're going to
continue to get good players.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well, there's a couple I think to be fair too,
is she going to stick around or are they going
to want her to stick around? It's a marriage. We've
both been married, right, It's like I'm gonna leave I'm
gonna leave. Well, you know where the door is.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, Well, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
We've you know, every time I'm on here, we talk about,
you know, the new regime that's in charge there. Yeah,
and it's you know, it's not just the the athletic director.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
There's well, there's a new president to be a new president,
and there's a money and there's a money situation.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
There's a money situation still at the U of A.
And there's all kinds of new leadership inside that department
and voices in Desiree's head. I'm sure just saying, you know,
I don't know, maybe we can I know somebody at
my school that I.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Was just stay at before I don't know, or or
the previous school before I went to the previous school.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's just the way it works. It's
a big network of coaches and they all know each other.
And I'm sure the coaches themselves are wondering, like, WHOA,
what's going on in Arizona? Is that someplace I would
like to go? Now?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, I know exactly if there's all this turmoil and
you're saying, well, I'm not too sure if I want
to send my resume there because what if I get
caught up in that?

Speaker 8 (07:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Well, I mean even in our state, the coaches at NAU,
Grand Canyon and a Issue have all left, you know,
is there one more to go?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, it's crazy. So it's a funny time. We'd
time conflicting time. So we're gonna talk a lot about
basketball today and in fact, we'll talk about it in
a little sec. But we're gonna have Todd Holthouse, the
women's basketball coach at Pima. Fantastic run. Yeah, second place.
They're great season for them.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Mm hmmmmm.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Continues to get better and they stay at this level
for a while. We'll probably have Peabody on tomorrow. They
finished third in their in their quest to a national title.
You don't win that game and cost them, but it's fine.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, it's hard to believe after all those wins. You're
just like, how can they lose something so close?

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I was on with Mike Morgan earlier and it just
didn't shoot well that day. Sometimes you have a bad day, Yeah,
but god, what were they thirty nine and hours thirty three?
You know, thirty three and three? You know, So so
we'll talk to talk to Todd and then we're going to
talk to coach Allan ben Hallen from UCLA formerly of
UCLA in Mississippi State, just to get his thoughts on
this time of year. He was the last Western coach,

(08:37):
if I can correctly think that, when he took Ucla
to back to back final fours, right, just the pressure
and getting there, uh, and how he handled it and
how others maybe should handle it, and what he sayes
about what's left and to your point, before we started
the blue not the blue bloods, but the the echelon.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah, conferences have have certainly emerged, and then and then
they're the story the tournament really right now is you know,
the Big ten, the Big twelve, the big the SEC
obviously has a bunch and and none of the little guys.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I mean even Gonzaga is not here ANYMOREA lost to Houston, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
So so they were both going five in a row
to sweet sixteen I think it was, yeah, and both
of them were fighting to get that continued trend here,
but only the one could go.

Speaker 8 (09:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
I mean at first the first days of the tournament
was great for the Big twelve. I mean, just one
team after another, I think it would be one team
lost out of the first round exactly right, But it
was a pretty good performance by the conference, Like gu
Iwa State lost the other day badly.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but I was surprised about that they got They
got Mississippi beautyful Beer is a heck of a good coach.
And then the Baylor bailer was kind of sputtering.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, Baylor was kind of but I mean, you know,
there were five or six seeds.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, they got it. Yeah, No, they did go to
show you.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
We you know, we've always been talking about that, how
the conference was setting these teams up and there's still
a few left and you know, we'll see how.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Things go weekend. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We talked a little about that with Tommy today on
our Zoom call before tomorrow's press conference. Uh, they had
time for us today, so I'll probably have some stories
on my website later tomorrow. We talked about that, and
we had been discussing this. Uh wow, I think on
the air, Dave about that ball, that crazy ball. You
didn't notice until I brought it.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Up, right, No, I had no clue and then you
kind of started seeing it. Right, It's like what's going on?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It is, like you said, Caleb be like, what's you
doing and losing that ball like that? But everybody, it
bounces just strangely. It bounces short, bounces long, just and
I know everyone's gonna say, well, all the balls do,
but these ones have more air in them.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
And you saw that story. I did see the story.
You know, it's interesting because the ball is one thing.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
But like they used to always blame the court, like, oh,
there's these dead spots like the Boston Garden or Maple's Pavilion,
which always kind of crazy. But I wonder if if
that's a combination too, of the ball being and you know,
these are all modern courts.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
I would assume they're all the same.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
But the headline, and the one I sent you was
what was the headline? Yeah, they admitted to it and
playing the balls too much.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Oh flate gate K.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, yeah, lady story So Wilson and Wilson's not going
to change it. But Tommy said, uh, because two years
ago it was a big story. Yesterday last year he
talked about, you know, how the balls were, and then
I asked him today the balls are still He says, yeah,
but that's true, but we've shot the ball very well,
so I'm not gonna say anything.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Did they come back to to soon or did they
sit out on the.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Road straight It went straight to to to New New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, so they traveled all day yesterday, a long day
practicing today. They even looked tired on the zoom uh.
And then was on there kJ Caleb and Tommy.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I talked to kJ a couple of times, a couple
of concussions, uh, saying that.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Talked Tommy about him.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Too, that he's played very well the last three weeks
at least, I said, talking to the Naked Eye, my
naked eye, he's played better. And Kenny says, well, everyone's
trying to read too much into it, but he's softening
it because it's true. He hadn't played really well most
of the year.

Speaker 5 (12:00):
He's come on strong. I mean he hit another three pointers.
Sometimes it was like, oh my god, what's he doing?
Then he makes it exactly my point.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
It's a menace on defense.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
He has been, you know, very He's just you know,
he's a different type of player that Arizona has not had, somebody,
you know, all purpose player. And Tommy talked about that
fills up the box score with all kinds of stuff.
Tommy talked about that miss dunks twice technical foul on
one player that was like maybe one of the most
bizarre moments I've ever seen, right, miss is it?

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Miss is it?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
And Tommy brought that up in terms of him doing
more things that you don't see on the box score. Yeah,
because he's a good defender.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yeah, I mean there'll be times where you know, there'd
be a scramble for the ball and all of a
sudden he's got and he's breaking out on I mean,
there were things that you know, they're just you don't
see that much from you of a players over the years,
and he's he's definitely different.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
He's been you know.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
I think it's a difference maker. In the last game, Yeah,
we'll play in that defense.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I think we got about a minute left before, so
we talk about more about that. I don't think we're
gonna have the clips from Tommy. Maybe we do, maybe
we don't. Maybe we ch home tomorrow, whatever, and we'll
take some calls. We run out of calls. People last
night were calling at this last hour and couldn't get in.
So if you want to get in, get in now.
After the toddhold house call, after this break here Okay, cool,

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Speaker 2 (18:45):
Hey, welcome back to our on the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today is
Dave Silver and we got Kobe waiting for coach to
give us a quick call in looking forward to that
just the whore that run started, how it started?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Because she just has excuse me, magic has to start somewhere, right.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah, they were the sixth seed in that tournament and
managed to get to the championship game and have a
close game there, had a chance to win and unfortunately
couldn't finish things up. But what a great year for
them again twenty nine and six.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, and second place is no nothing to sneeze that round.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Oh no, when you look at all the thousands of
schools that play junior college basketball, it's it's great to
be in that spot, right Yeah, Okay, So yeah, he's
supposed to call us, so he's ready for us. Just
keep our eye on the.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
On the phone.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, So then we'll take some calls after Todd about
three forty two, give us a call five two oh
four to one, six seventy four forty. I know we
left a couple of people holding at the end of
yesterday's long show. Is a good show yesterday?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Did you get a lot of calls yesterday? Yeah, we
had a few.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
We had a few from the you know, the game
and and uh, you know, one of the things that
taught I Dave Kelly calling Dave Kelly. The biggest question
yesterday and maybe you came up with it too, was
about a while and why he was out to the
last few minutes and.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
He didn't go there. He says, we won the game.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
It's the strategies, you know, don't need to be explained,
and we moved on from it.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
I in fact, I even heard you guys talking about
it yesterday too, and we're sitting there watching it. I
maybe he got kind of knocked in the stomach or
whatever in section. I don't know if that was like
why he was out, but he was out for like
six or seven minutes, and it was critical, critical time.
I mean they managed to hang on, of course, but
there was there was some question after the game as
to what that status was. And now looking back to

(20:34):
the Duke game when they were here, didn't he also
come out early?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
I don't think he played.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
I can't remember. I can't remember because Crebas was in
the game that day. Yeah, and Henry was not that much.
This is a totally different game. And I asked Tommy
about that. This is not your It was on a
team from December.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
No, for sure, you know, and Henry was was not
a nonfactor if I'm not mistaken that game, And he
wasn't much of a factor the other day either.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
But they're gonna need him to do something right right.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
No, and Duke is one of the taller teams left
in the in the tournament. Yeah, they're not just flank
Although he's fantastic, Yeah, of course, you know, I do
you think he's fantastic, that's the word I used to
he's again, he's a guy that fills up, that fills
up the box score. He does all kinds of things.
He doesn't always have to score.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
He was injured for, you know, the knee injury that
of course, it didn't matter to those guys at that point.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
You mean any ankle injury. I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah, So he's you know, first team All American most
likely the number one pick. So I got to take
it for what I think, this could be his last game,
could be fans could be.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
If you remember, Arizona has done that to a team
or two, you know, ninety seven, ninety seven I think
it was, Yeah, coach from North Carolina, Dean Roy Williams.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
No, Dean Smith.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Well, that was his final final game. It was his
final game. Arizona had knocked him off in the semi finals.
But I mean, this is so you hate to start
comparing him. This is somewhat of a similar situation. Here
we go with the number one seed every year, sixty
day for the last twenty eight years. There we go,
we're a four seed. We're gonna knock off every team.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
But just because it's hope, right, because you hope, we've
seen it before. But let me tell you, I'm gonna
probably start a story like that next day or so.
Because Arizona was an underdog to Kansas by seven. I
think it was, if memory serves, and that was fair.
That was that was the best team, the one loss
all season, the best team in the country. And then

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you're thinking, and Michael Dickerson, we're underdog, you know, and
lud Olson also said same thing. Yeah, like we're the underdog,
you know, like Dickerson didn't give a crap. Well, you know,
he just wanted to play basketball. I mean, Lout, I
think maybe you were.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
I'm sure you were in there, but I'm pretty sure
his answer was something like, you know, we're the underdog.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean really, I mean, you know, well.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
That was his power play. That was his you know,
because he didn't do it often. He didn't mess with
the the the uh bulletin board material stuff until till
he knew when to use it.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, but I mean this is again, this is somewhat similar.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
I mean, they're the number they're the number one team
in the country, the number one seed in the in
the East, and Arizona's coming in you know, fourth, that
got all these kind of you know, a bunch of players.
They are probably gonna play in the pros or at
least somewhere professionally. So it's somewhat of a similar situation. Yeah, yeah,
so we'll see.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I don't agree.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
I don't know, it's always a stretch because everybody goes there.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, everyone's looking ten years and see what one where
these guys wind up doing Yeah, yeah, right right, Well
that team was so so good. Yeah yeah. And one
of them just got a new job.

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah he was oh him, and well and and well
that's the next generation of Wildcat's got a new job too.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
But who's that Josh? Oh yeah, Josh, yeah, and he's
on the show. You've been on the show with me
with him?

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah, And he spent out. We texted this morning and
uh and Bibby I talked talked to him last night.
So what is he excited about this going?

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, because he he was pretty much living in Sacramentos
now because he was played by He was one of
the color guys that he was like the he was
like the give me the.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Sons guys, like the Tom Chambers and he was that
guy in Sacramento and.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
He, Uh, were you on the show with me with
him a while back? I was, And I said, you know,
what's are you going to coaches? Or why? Why you
just do this?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, this is a good job, Steve, I'm going
to coach. It was like, shut up, Steve, I'm going
to coach. Wow, because I want to coach. That's a
tough place to break into.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
But he has plans because you know, if you do
really well right away, you can jump ship.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Yeah, I mean you look to the Bay Area, you're
right there. If something happened with one of those schools.
Speaking of which, how about Stanford today getting rid of
the football coach with Andrew Luck making them you know,
he's their GM now, the former quarterback there and NFL quarterback. Yeah,
I guess there are a lot kinds of problems behind
the scenes right on top of them not playing well.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Sure you know what he did at any other school,
because I'm sure it happens at any of the school
they wouldn't do anything. They'd kind of like, you know,
but you're at Stanford, and I'm sure that the admin's
and the professors are said, this is not Stanford, like right,
we were an academic institution. We don't need this crap

(25:19):
going on. I'm sure they use a better word to crap. Yeah,
because they can, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I
mean that was stunning.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
I mean, you know, it's again, it's a school with
a lot of prestige and history and this and that,
and the coach was a former cal quarterback, right, yeah, Taylor,
So there was always a little bit of that but
not that that really has anything to do with it.
But when they're talking about bullying and you know, taunting
the players and.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
The misogyny, probably because well, and here's another one, he
went three and nine two consecutive.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeers, if he went nine and three two years, you
think it would happen. Nobody would talk about it. He
would still be there. But you know, that's just the
way of the world. And you know, you gotta be
careful and you've got a uh, you know, an institution
with a great reputation and football is probably not too
important there based on everything else is going on.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
No, but I'm sure it will be, will be when
they hire the next guy. True. Who that could be
is anybody's guest, right, I mean this whole you know,
being in the A c C.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
It just, you know, it just seems so discombobulated for
both cal and Stanford. I don't know if they'll ever
get there get their footing in this.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Well here's the funny part.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
And h when we're talking to Tommy and these guys today,
they went from Seattle to to Newark. You know, not
the end of the world, but it's a heck of
a flight. California Stanford, cal the USC These teams going
across country for games, and you travel, I traveled.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's not easy.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah, I mean it's a three hour time difference this
time of year too, so you probably lose. You leave
Seattle at you know, eight in the morning, you get
to New York at five. If it's a direct easy play,
I mean you can fly NonStop to Newark. But still
it's a long end. You know, it's going to take
a day to adjust to the body situation. They what
they're playing at nine thirty their time, so it's a

(27:03):
long day on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, Bruce tried to get that from Tommy and Tommy's
you know, no excuses type of guys. No, no, because
it's they played late Sunday, the last game of the thing.
Now they have to turn around and play one of
the games on Thursdays. You know what these guys, you
know what these kids do for a living. They played basketball. Yeah,
and they'll the watch games all day.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Other games are there's only a couple of games, you know,
each day on Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
But still, right right, I'm sure they'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, when it comes to that, we might have to
move the whole House interviewed to the next segment here.
If he doesn't call anytime, I've put an announcement out
to see what's up. Yeah, so we'll see what happens
with the guys press commerce tomorrow. We had to win
them with them today, a couple of guys. So we'll
see what happens.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Do you know what time that is? And can you
watch that yourself?

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Here?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Now they stream to the media just because we get
special links and all that stuff. I haven't gotten anything yet,
so I'll find out tonight.

Speaker 8 (28:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Back in the old days, they used to throw them
up on a satellite you know. Yeah, we'll call the
TV station where is it. Nobody'd give them the coordinates.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, well they still do that. Maybe you were supposed to.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Do they probably should have, but you know, I think
it says for media only. Yeah, there used to be
some pretty good shows. And I don't even know. I
honestly don't know. If you're sitting around like I do
now at home. Some days, you know, like tomorrow, for example,
they would just have like all day, maybe like an
espn uh, one.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Of those kinds of chances.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Used to do that, which is one after another after another,
so it was kind of a good chance to see that.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, I'm not sure if.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
There's any program that you must have no time on
your house, because what are you gonna do. I'm gonna
watch the press conference, Mildred.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Give me, give me a cup of tea, and change
the channel.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I make sure that they're gone, so I just I
just have my you know, quiet time. Hey, we're watching
the Duke news conference.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
What are you looking for? What do you what are
you looking for?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
You should be retired and not caring, It's true. And
I drag you in here because.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
That's that's kind of where where I was for all
those years looking forward to them. I mean always, we always,
you know, we had to get there today.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, we had to be there the day before do
some kind of preview stories, and then the next day
I had full Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Yeah, I guarantee you this was. You're going, what's uh,
today's Tuesday games stores day tonight. You get in about
six o'clock, Go get a man on the street, see
somebody in the red red un fans here? Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
And again like Seattle, it's going to be somewhat simpler.
I mean, obviously it's not closer to Tucson, but tons
of alumni in the New York area and the East coast.
I mean, the Philly fans will come up in d C.
It's not too far.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Who imagined who has that control that area controlled. Though
Douke has a lot of fans, we have many more
alumni in general.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
I mean, they have a lot of fans. But you know,
in terms of university size, I mean, Arizona's probably sure
times as many students sure out in New York and stuff.
Was that one of your areas It was not, but Washington,
d C. Was And they, you know, they were one
of the would jump on any chance to see an
Arizona came on the East coast. So it was in Florida.
If it was in New York, they you know, people

(30:06):
would be going. So yeah, I guarantee you you'll start
sing hearing you.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well, you didn Seattle, You didn't Seattle. I was a
little bit surprised because it was a long trip. But
but like we say, they don't travel well, but they
have a lot of alumps in those areas.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Long trip and Washington State is, I think wrong among
the top alumni bases in the country.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
It really is. And the Bay area.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, here's here's the here's a good example. We have
Kobe here from New York, Henry's from New York. I
have another intern from New York at my other job.
I mean, what are you guys doing coming all the
way up over there?

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Yeah, hopefully they travel because there's more Duke fans in
New York. But I'm sure Arizona will travel.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
And you come, but you come, you leave New York
for the ninety five degrees that you're going to get today, right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Henry will be good because he's wearing his you know,
his flip flops and his short Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yeah, no, I mean the Duke, the Duke fans are good,
but they're kind of spoiled even.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
And I'm not going to go to the.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
First round because we're gonna go to the sweet sixteen.
Those are the excuses they would tell us back in
the day you left me.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
It kind of spoiled.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Well, yeah, we got the a SEC tournament, we're going
to win that. We're not going on to the first
or second weekend. We're going to go to sweet sixteen
because we're going there, and they go all time.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Well, here's your other thing.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
You talked about ninety seven, you might as well talk
about twenty eleven Arizona.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I was a underdog there. They came west, right, Duke
came west and Arizona beat the crap out of it.
But they also had a fantastic performance by one guy,
well one guy and one shot that you know, a
few shots obviously, and then the next next shot Yukon.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Was it was the beast.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
Yeah, we were there, I mean it was. It was
quite an amazing performance. I just remember I don't know
where you were sitting, but I was kind of I
was not.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
In my thirty two years of doing this. Uh yeah,
I missed four. That was one of them. Why because
I was?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
I was because I was. That was the first year
like being out of the paper. I was working for
somebody else, and uh I was couldn't go.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, So we were sitting maybe five or six rows, right, Yeah,
we weren't in like press row whatever. I don't know
why we weren't, but you know, the TV guys sometimes
got set out sign almost but I remember there were
some people.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Behind me that knew.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
I can't remember if it was Jack Murphy or Josh
or somebody was coaching and as this thing was just
exploding in the first half, and Derek Williams is going nuts.
You know. They would look back if their friends in
the stands like they couldn't even believe it. The guys
on the bench were like shocked if they were doing
this to Duke. It was just it was a weird
feeling and.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Then unrivaled on them quickly. Yeah, well, I guess in
the second half. Yeah, but I mean they were, you know,
they just I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
I'm sure there were some pretty you know, outrageous runs
of points that there was, and I was I was
throwing up there. But again, the coaching staff, I think
was just as shocked as as anybody else. Coach k
you know, it was like whoah, the game down, take
a time out.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
And in reality, that moment and the one against Wisconsin
were Shawn's two best chances of getting to the Final four,
you know after that, because they lost the Yukon and
then they lost to wist coll Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Sean Miller landing on his feet in Texas pretty pretty incredible.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
This is the world that we live in in it
because uh, just was it seven years ago?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Seven years ago all the thing broke eight years ago,
five years ago, four years ago, he was fired and.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
Now he's going to make a boatload of money, probably.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Probably the richest, one of the richest programs in the country. Yeah,
he's buddies with crys deal CONTI I guess they know. Well,
Chris wasn't here. Wasn't he that I thought I read something.
I didn't think that was true because the.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Gym hired Sean. By that time, Delcanti has already gone.
He had left a rice. I think, if my memory serves,
I don't think that Chris was here.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
What did you read?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
You know?

Speaker 5 (33:58):
I thought I thought I read something that he was
with some overlap. Maybe he was here at the very
beginning and then he left once Miller was hired.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
I look and see all the time. Yeah, I don't
think so. I don't think the Arizona connection. Yeah, you know, oh,
we gotta go, we gotta go. Okay, so maybe we'll
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Speaker 1 (37:44):
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Speaker 2 (37:54):
Hey, welcome back to Mine on the ball here on
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and Ben moorning for Odd Todd Whole House will have
Ben Hallan on the other side of the break at
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to talk about the great run by Pema.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
If not, we'll get him tomorrow. No, Biggie ye, been
a pretty good time time in the season for the both.
You know, the basketball teams at PENA and UH overall
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Speaker 4 (38:28):
So let me.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
I posed this question to to the guys yesterday, Who's
gonna win a chawiship first?

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Tommy Lloyd, Sean Miller.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Sean Miler going to Texas. I don't know he's gonna
He's gonna get some players.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm sure, because some players, He's not gonna be the
top dog in the SEC.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Oh, no, that's gonna be He's Texas got in the tournament,
but they certainly weren't near the top of the.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Of the conference. I've said this all go ahead.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
No, I was gonna just say technically, I mean, really,
when's the last time Texas was really good in basketball?

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Kevin Durant, J Drant and the kid that the guard
t J t j oh.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
Yeah, for.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
A long time.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
And I remember Blut played there all the time. I
love going to Austin. They came here, Uh, Tom Penders
and then Barnes Rick Barnes, Barnes.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
I used to love going there with the team.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
And good, I mean, come on, do you t and
then del Conte spending their money.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Yeah, I mean they've got so much money and so
much you know, so much cash for the n I
L I'm sure you know.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
I'm sureing Sean is a great recruiter. We all know
that and you know it.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
So whether or not he can get these guys to
get past the Elite eight, I guess, And I'm sure
it's a huge personal goal for him as a coach.
He's had, you know, great success and you know, random
the issues of course near the end of his time here,
but I think that he would love to just kind
of use this now as the next step in his
career where yeah, super successful.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
We've got to call now, Hello, you're on the air.
I'm hey, you're on the who's this this coach? O?

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Brian? Hey, hold on, we might have to you jump
jump off if Todd calls.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
Okay, just calling and saying that no matter how yu
A does on Thursday. It's kind of strange what one
year difference will make. If we get beat by Duke,
people are going to say, wow, we got to the
sweet sixteen. That's great. Last year we do this, we
get beat and they went they want Tommy They's head, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
Yeah, because you don't you know, you know, the fans
here in this town, Clemson. Who's Clemson exactly?

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (40:33):
Yeah, I mean it's said, and you know, no matter
what you guys are talking about the transfer portal with
the girls, and it's going to be just as bad
with the guys. You know, we don't know how many
these guys are gonna stay whatever. You know, it's like
play a new team next year anyway. So right, people
just got to get used to It's just the way

(40:54):
it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
So, Brian, I know we're gonna want too good to
both you guys, because you have to deal with money. Brian,
I don't know how much you make. I'm sure it's
not more than a hundre two hundred three hundred thousand.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
But so if you get calls from tired.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
And I'm just tired, I'm just tired.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
But am I getting calls and they want money for
me to give to a kid in the nil And
I'm not the guy to ask, right, But and he's
making eight one hundred thousand to meet that doesn't see why?

Speaker 6 (41:20):
No, you know, no, to me, it's like, why should
I give money to a guy who's gonna make more
money than me?

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Exactly?

Speaker 6 (41:26):
I mean, yeah, it just doesn't you know. I mean,
if I was a multi millionaire or a billionaire whatever,
probably just no, no big deal, just to drop in
the bucket, you know, fifty thousand dollars. But you know,
and this town doesn't have those kind of rich people.
So it's going to be very very difficult, you know,
for us to compete with basically everybody else, you know,

(41:48):
And I'm really surprised that ASU does not have a
better NIL set up, especially with what goes on with
all the corporations that they haven't feeding.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
It's true, I've I've always felt the same way that
they're just kind of a sleeping giant that they've never
been able to put together any kind of sustainable run
of basketball success.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
And I don't know what the deal is.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
If they can, you know, get some of the corporate
corporations to pony up more money, maybe it'll happen.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Well, here's the one thing. What's his name, the issue?
What's his name?

Speaker 2 (42:20):
The best player ever? James Harden, James Harden. So he
gave a lot of money to the NIL. I guess
that's what I read. So that's what Arizona needs. It
needs some of the guys who are making some money
or made some money to dump some into this program.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (42:34):
I don't think I'm going to see that.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
No.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
I mean there's a lot of money out there, there's
a lot of from alumni athletes. There's a lot of money.
But whether or not they want to give them money
is a different thing, right.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
No, I just read a story, not too long ago.
That's what they don't do.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
They don't they come here, use the system and get
and get paid a lot and then don't give back.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
Right, A lot of them give back in the towns
where they wind up going too as well. So they'll
go to you know, go play basketball in the Bay Area,
or go play basketball in Los Angeles. Maybe they have
to set up a foundation in those cities. I mean,
there there's ways that they're giving back. I'm assuming that
they don't want to keep every every set that they earn.
But you're right, I mean, sometimes you're university. Maybe maybe
they didn't have a good experience here. There was something

(43:16):
happened here that's just you know, made them angry.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
They don't want that, and especially now there there's no
there is no loyalty to schools anymore.

Speaker 16 (43:25):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
You know, you might as well forget about. Anybody needs
appilead to play here and for a year or two
and then they're gone.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
They're not going to give anything back to the Uba.

Speaker 6 (43:34):
They don't really care.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Well, they got what they want it.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
No, you're exactly ready. And let's remember that loots guys
are already done. They're done, right and now it's it's
Shawn's guys who aren't very many in the league. You know,
there aren't very many.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
No, so here we go.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
It's hard to tell, but I just you know, it's
just hey going down and tell the viewers. You want
to have a good time, go out and watch the
U A Baseball team.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Okay, Brian, we got to go another wat. Okay, thank you. Hello,
you're on the air. Nine on the ball. Who's this?

Speaker 8 (44:08):
Hey, Steven Sward.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Howard Howard, Hey, we might have to jump off you
off the phone.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
Right, I know, I know, I'll go really have three
insightful points.

Speaker 18 (44:16):
Go.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
First of all, if it's nine and a half points,
I'll take the nine and a half points with them.
Second nil thing. I like it for the Charles. I
have no problems with it, especially when it comes to
the men because I'm so advocate of because these players
are not ready, Charles. They need to stay at least
two years. And if Dan and I'll keep some of

(44:38):
these guys, marginal guys in, then that's good to stay in.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
Okay, so you have another point, you have your third point, Well, I.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
Forgot what the I mean?

Speaker 4 (44:50):
I mean.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
The third point is only I guess I.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Think about it, right, Howard? Thank you man. It's the text,
all right. Well, yeah, that's always been the argument around
here for years.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
They would just stick around for another one more year,
one more year, but then they get if they get
drafted in the first.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Round, well that's a Carter Bryan kind of do you know,
what would you do?

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Well, you know, is he gonna be picked in.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
The top twenty or the top ten if he sticks
around for one you know, how do they even know?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
He's uh, he's one of those conundrums, right, if he
gets drafted in top fifteen next year, he could be
in the top ten. But I'm sure he's gonna make
some money here, right. Is it enough to just kind
of write and is it all about the money? I
mean it comes from a good family, and how much
I don't know. I've never been rich. My family's not rich.

(45:41):
How how much money do you need? Yeah, I mean
it's just you know, a lot of it's just your
ego too. It's like, hey, my buddy's going to the Pros.
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go play. My family's telling
me I should go.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
So you know, I'm sure he's getting influenced by a
lot of different people, and that's just how it works.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
And I'm sure you know some of these with a reportal.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
Open officially, there's gonna be some roster moves during the
during the tournament. Richard Patino from New Mexico, I saw
him Quota say, and this is ridiculous that this is
happening so right in the middle of the biggest you know,
weekends of the year.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Right, So I guess he was trying to call him.
It was busy because of that situation. We're gonna see
if I can get him at four so you won't
have to worry about.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Breaking news.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah, and then we'll get him and then try to
get Ben at four seventeen, so we'll see if we
can get him. We got about I don't want to
call him, have him called now, because we only get
like five six minutes, all right, So anybody else want
to call you can fill in the blank for us
for the next five to six minutes. So Howard, if
you came up with your one point instead of a
two pointer and give us a three pointer?

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Yeah, No, I think it's just you know, we obviously
this is a great time of year. The coaching. But
there's all kinds of shuffling.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
We've got, you know, two Arizona form Arizona players getting
the head coaching job, or a former Arizona people, Sean
Miller and Mike Bibbie. You know, the coaching moves, the
nil moves, the transfer moves. It's just and on top
of the fact that there's basketball is still to be
played here this weekend.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, if I were one of them, I would be
frustrated too, because the timing of it is horrible. All
these guys coming back, well, there was one from who
left Kentucky? Was it somebody somebody left during the tournament
and didn't come back. He's just not coming back. It
was a tournament team they're still playing. It might be
Kentucky one of the players. Yeah, one of the players

(47:23):
you said I'm not going did He didn't make any
trips in the last two or three weeks, so oh,
it was up pipp pippen Son. I don't know what
what team he's with, but I saw that last night,
you know.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
Yeah, I mean there's gonna be teams that are to
show up on the on the benches and hey, wait a.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Second, the guy left Scout apart me, he's not there. Yeah,
he's already got He's already in the transfit. He's literally
in the portal and now he's gone.

Speaker 5 (47:47):
So yeah, we might want to google see him once
your Google see the transfer portal numbers, because I would
a venture to guess over under right now is about
a thousand uh from yesterday to today and.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
How many actually get get picked? You know, people don't
talk about that one. And to the education, well, if
you don't get picked, you don't go back to school.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Probably not that's college. Yeah, to see how things are
going about, I'm sure.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
There's sure we have. Did we talk about the juju
uh injury? That was very that was very sad. She's,
you know, kind of one of the faces of women's
college BASKETBA. She goes down last night out for the year.
That was her knee she had. She was so good
last year and I kind of I don't know about you,
but I I you know, I watched it a little
bit during the regular season, but you know, once a
tournament hits, you're just watching you know, specific players or

(48:38):
teams and usc top seed in the in the in
the tournament, and she goes down. So that's that's sad.
You wonder how long she'll really. She could be out
all next year these injuries.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
She was forever and she was set to break getting
clarks all time scoring and she just did that last year.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Yeah, it's interesting. What's her name page from Yukon?

Speaker 5 (48:58):
Didn't she also have a similar knee injury and it
did take her a bit to kind of regain her form.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, and that kind of doesn't give us that Becker
Juju a matchup that was gonna maybe happen.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
Yeah, it's gonna be I'm curious to see how things
work out, you know, TV wise with the ratings last year,
Remember the women beat the men with ratings for the
championship games, right, But I don't I'm not sure if
that's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Well, you'd lose one of the star players, right or attractions?
Probably not, Probably not Let's And it's not Yukon again, right,
so it could be Houston.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
They're not too appealing, but they are, Yeah, men's who
else is appeal to yu kind of? I mean, Duke
of course is kind of still appealing as an appeal.
I'm sure that Thursday night's game is going to be
well watched. Yeah, well that's what they put it on.
Well they put it on at least West Coast prime time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
the numbers will be they'll be, you know, about the same.

(49:54):
Probably ten eleven million is usually kind of what the
championship game draws. And last year that I think the
women were my over over the men.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
So's how it's gone, especially with Caitlyn Clark. She was,
you know, obviously marquee player. People wanted to watch her.
She chanced to transform the women's game. Yeah, so I'm
not too sure if you're going to get a call.
It's already fifty three. Probably have three minutes there, yeah,
two minutes, two minutes, okay, so we'll either take a

(50:22):
call or not take a call.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
It doesn't really matter. They have to be really quick
if you do call.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Anything else you see out there, because we're not sure
if we get Todd, we're not going to have any
breaking news.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
So anything out there dating me see that, you're I'm
just looking around. The juju injuries still making big news.
Jeordan Montgomery, pitcher for the Diamondbacks, and they they spent
a fortune on a couple of years ago. It was
hurt good last year, got hurt, gonna have Tommy Tommy John.

Speaker 4 (50:46):
So that's the end of that.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Their season starts this week Major League Baseball tipping off
or what the first pitch? Yeah, well they had the
games last week in Japan, but the real games begin
this Week's right season Dodgers of course, and the Mets
were the Mets right behind your Mets, yeah with one Soto.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Yeah, kind of the usual suspects in baseball.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
I think the Braves are up there, if they can
say fully healthy.

Speaker 19 (51:14):
Yeah, you're a baseball game. Yeah you follow that because
you're in New York. Yeah, well my team is good,
I follow it. So I'm following the Mets this season. Yeah,
your team or the Yank Mets. Oh well, you've had
a tough time.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
Yeah, it's turning around now finally.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Well they were supposed to be pretty good a couple
of years ago, right, yeah, and then just didn't work out.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
Well, I mean they were good last year, they got
well the year, but was it the year? But was
because they were bad and then a terrible and they
were great that.

Speaker 7 (51:42):
They were supposed to be good and they were bad.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Yeah. Yeah. Chemistry, baby, Yeah, gotta have it gotta have it.
I mean they were.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
I mean I was in New York actually myself in
May and they were ten games below five hundred. Back
then to that game, I went to a game, you know,
they played the Phillies, and the Philly beat him, and
they were obviously the.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
Better team that day. But uh, I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
I forget what the exact run, but it was something
like they went like sixty and thirty, you know, to
finish up the season.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
They just went nuts the last couple of months. Well
they want to win, right, They're putting money into it.

Speaker 7 (52:16):
Yeah, Steve Cohen is unlimited money, so yeah, must be nice.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
I was just gonna say, you know what that means that, Yeah,
well he's a U Bake guy, isn't he? Who's the Jets?

Speaker 5 (52:27):
The Jets guy's the Ubakery Johnson. Yeah, no, Steve. I
think Steve is a big donor to Michigan as well. Okay,
I mean there's buildings named that's what you need, you
the Ardie Morenos to come back.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
You need the know him. No, no, you think I'd
be doing this.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
Was a sponsor already needs to Yeah, he can least
sponsor the show. I would have gone to New York,
New Jersey plane. Yeah right, we gotta go.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
We gotta go, hold that covers trouble right, We'll come
back and see what we do at four o'clock