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Steve Rivera and Jacob Salles. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson's Sports. Stay shat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to winning the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, he's Jay. Now we have Adam with breaking newsless eye on the ball, breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, So to start things off for the UFA basketball we talked about it earlier, but they did add Campbell transfer Anthony del

Orso. He was named second team All CAA was the youngest player on either first or second team. He appeared in all thirty two games, made thirty one starts, averaging nineteen and a half points six and a half rebounds, which were both best marks on the team. I'm curious, Jay, if you saw, if you read Bruce's over the weekend, I thought that Tommy was going to hold out till till Bradley and kJ and and Love we're going to make new decisions. Although I think that kJ was not invited to the

G League. Neither was Bradley. I don't think. Yeah, kJ and Bradley were not about the league. Caleb was was. So so you're thinking too, that they're bringing another guy on. You can only say something that thing they're thinking Caleb Love. They must be thinking, Caleb Love is not coming back, right right? So and he planned it plays the position of small small three two. He's a six to six wing guy. What come I he's a thirty nine percent shooter from three, right, Okay, you

know the guy who can make some three. But you know, and we all you know, we all know. You know, Moroscus could shoot the lights out, but apparently couldn't do the other things needed to get on the court. Right, So we'll see soon what happens. You can only speculate what's going on. Kind just kind of made me look like a goofball because I was just some guys this morning that Tommy's done getting guys until we find out what's happening with Caleb Love, right right. Well, you know,

we don't don't say too much. I told you that five letes ago, but yeah, you know, and that for he went to Campbell, which is the same place that Cedric Canderson went. That they came here and played for a year before leaving. These guys a couple of years of altability left. Yeah, okay, all right, Austin and college ball. Tad Boyle, Colorado's head coach, adding Danny Manning to the Colorado basketball staff. And what's the connection with the U with the U of A. Yeah, U

of his son is an assistant coach or assistant here for Tommy Lloyd. Yeah, so he's been so Danny Manning was a lot of the games. I don't know if you knew that. I didn't know that. Yeah, he was, especially with the tournament. They were at tournament. Andy Manny and I are old friends. Really, I covered the eighty eight final for so he was at a lot of the games. And now his son is under

Tommy and now he's going to Colorado. All right, So maybe it was because he was a head coach where Kenz Danny Manning was the coach of Kansas did Buffalo Kansas and and Tad Boyle and then were teammates for a long time ago Colorado many candas, I'm sorry, many years boy played with Danny Manning the Ken long time ago in mid eighties. Oh okay, how old do you think Danny Manny is? Well, he's like Steve kerrz Age little fifty fifty seven, Yeah, fifty seven. So I was wondering maybe he just

wanted to see his son. Now he's not in Colorado's now in a different the eg On Nono, they're coming, okay, so so coming with Arizona, so they'll be in the same conference. Right just now, Rudy Gobert tied the NBA record with his fourth Defensive Player of the ear aword, beating out Women Yama's French mate. Pretty not unanimous, but pretty once. Sorry I blew that one. I'm sorry you did, but that I'm sorry. I should have just let that go. I couldn't help myself. No one

of our calls. I messed that one up. But we don't. I do it every day, seventy two first places, winning his fourth time, and he did play last night. Did not play last night. They didn't need him, and we didn't. We didn't get around to web on Yama, who was the rooking unanimous rookie year or did we talk about that yesterday? We did off the here, off the here, okay. Also Jamal Murray, we touched on it a little bit earlier through the heat pack on

the court. Uh. The NBA is investigating if they're going to suspend them. He does a heat Chick. That was the one shot he made last night. Good Adam, you've we've come up rubbed out. That's a good one. Sorry to see you go. Yeah, yeah, just in time. Another one, Steve another another grasshopper going on his way, Chick the box. I did another reference on that one. Do you grasshopper? No, no, no, no no. I can't say kunng Fu Man kung

Fu the show Told Your Death seventy three. He would know kung Fu THEWN We called you grasshopper today and he'll know what we're talking about. Oh yeah, I'll let him know. Rashid Rice under investigation again for allegedly hitting a photographer on at a Dallas club early Monday. So he's the guy that wrecked the Yeah, did they cut him? They definitely cut him, didn't they know? They didn't cut him. No, they're gonna cut him. It's piling on like they should. Yeah, right in jail. Sometimes this is

the problem. If you're good, if you're really good, Yeah, they find ways to keep you. Yeah they do. Which he's only twenty three, just picked. He was a rookie last year. So they need receivers. But obviously I don't see how they don't need these kind of receivers, right, so it's not it's not looking good as the Astros. GM says they don't expect to sell this. He says the team is too good despite being ten games under thirty four games in twelve, you gave you gave him

the kiss of death, you and Francisco. That was the purpose purpose visit that Francisco, let me give him the kiss the exactly exactly. They're terrible, yeah, twelve and said that with a smile. They did. I didn't even have to look at him. I just felt it that he was smiling when he said that. Okay. Also, the Tennessee Titans signed Tyler Boyd one year, four and a half million dollar deal. He leaves the Bengals. Titans have a nice receiving crew. Now, yeah, but their

quarterback is Will Levis. Is he really that good? He had that one good game? Yeah? First, right, but then yeah, they're they're all going crazy saying, oh they the Titans are something now like wait a minute, you still have a quarterback? You know, I don't know, okay. And then the Knicks versus Pacers last night, refs made four airs in Game one ending, but they said not on the controversial screen the last two minute, because you what, I want to have been sleeping on this

one? Who won the game? We don't even next next squeaked them out? Yeah, well, good for them. Did you have the boy o Caitlin Clark thing, ted Ted Doyle, I mean do animals. Yeah, he's been suspended for a couple of weeks. Good has decided to come in and step in and give them me and he can't and he can't cover the team. He's a creeper for that reason. You know that reason. Even if he was trying to be funny, you didn't worry. Yeah, that

stuff doesn't fly. No, No, yeah, okay. That was pretty much all I've seen so far, unless you guys want to add anything else. No, but there's still been buzz, a big buzz for the for the Bowl game. Obviously a lot of people. I asked her. I asked uh Cam a question yesterday in addition to yours about you know, there's a lot of positivity, but there could be some negativity. I've saw, I've seen some negative and I'll show, I'll show, I'll send it to

you and it won't be a surprise. Who said, well, because of the connotations well more than anything though. This is one of those you know, if you know, all news is good news because airs on a bull needs visibility. Look, I certainly don't think that the blowback is more than no barstool, no right, No, I know that at the break the breakfast that I was at this morning that with business, everybody was talking about

it's a big girl. All talking about about Snoop Dogg. Whether it was in a joke, you know, or you know, when Snoop Dogg going to be on your show. People were buzzing about the whole Snoop Dogg thing and sort you know. And these are all you know, mostly you know, fifties and older guys who you know, uh, you know talking about Snoop Dogg. So I in the end, I think it's going to be. In the end, it's a win win win win, huge win, no question for especially if they have like and I think the kids, the

kids that we talked about. There's a concert, halftime, pre game whatever with with a group of his buddies. Yeah, there's some packball softball awards coming out right now. Taylor Beale at Arizona, the uh shortstop, I guess she's a co Defensive Player of the Year along with Paige Sneaki from Oregon. The u c l A coach is the Coach of the Year uh and the u c l A players the Freshman of the Year. I'm just reading these off of off of their their Twitter feed. I haven't seen a news

release with all this. Let me ask you did did the women who left here to go to u c l A was that last year? Did still playing? Yeah? They're still playing. Yeah. In fact, you know, Hanson had a comment in in in one of his columns about what's your

name? The outfielder, the lead She was the lead off hereter here became the nine hereter u c l A. And now there was a game where in the last inning against Arizona and they put a pinch hitter in for her and saying like, okay, it's obviously not going as well as she probably would have hoped. You know when she left here, Janelle that you know,

you know she would never would have been pinched. Well, sometimes it's nice to be a big fish in a small pond, and you know, in Arizona's not a small pond, and you softball, so you know, it was interesting that you know that that was noted the pitcher of the years from Stanford, so uh and player of Thermaya Brady from u c. L A. Is just really good. If you ever seen her play, she just does all the things. So there you go. Yeah, we were

talking yesterday. It's likely, we think likely that they should be able to get into the into the Yeah, you know they're there. They finished fifth place in the league. You know, the PAC twelve should get five or six teams in the tournament. Anyways, I think they're still ranked, so I would I would expect that they they'd get in. The question is you know for Arizona they'll getting in. Your part of getting it is hosting,

you know, to be able to host. If they're you know, on the road, then that's sort of a not quite as not quite where you want to be if you're Arizona. Right. So, oh, here's when Emily Shep from Arizona is on the all freshman team, so there's there's people coming through it. So anyways, so we'll get more on that as they when there. Whenever they announce the whole thing or whenever we get the release, it's got the whole thing. So anyways, all right, well that's

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schedule your free evaluation today. Steve Rivera and Jacin saliz they have their eye on the ball on Tucson's sports stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty, Streamy Live I the iHeartRadio. Wapp Hey, welcome back to my in the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacob Zones. Now on the phone, we have Justin Spears from the Arizona Daily Star. Are you doing just that's how we're doing? Well? Have you caught up?

It seems like it's always busy. Your byline's all over the place in this town. Yeah, it's a busy, bisny time of year. And of course with the transfer portal, that adds a whole nother element to covering college football. So they're keeping me busy until the summer. They're definitely getting the moneys worth out of me at the Arizonadaily Star, that's for sure. Well, it's become a you know, three hundred and sixty five day a year job now, and then it's it's kind of hard. So let's first go,

let's go to spring ball. You know, just general impressions, uh, you know, you know it's Brent Brandan's first, uh first spring ball at Arizona. Just in general, what did it look like to you? Because it looked a lot of the same to me. Sure, And by the way, I do apologize my phone has been dealing with some issues and the battery stink. So if I actually hang up on you, guys, I promise you it's that's not me, it's this damn phone. So I

apologize if I do hang up on you. But you know, regarding Brent Brennan, the you know, in terms of the same stuff, yeah, because there's a lot of the same people. You know, you got No Fafia, your star quarterback, you got Team Act, your star wide receiver. You know, the best quarterback receiver tandem arguably in college football back and they were the ones who galvanized most of the team and the nucleus, the

players that were part of the twenty twenty three team. And so yeah, I mean, I think a big reason why you're seeing a lot of the same stuff is because of the fact that Arizona has a lot of players back from twenty twenty three. Came in and honestly, I think that you know, the coaches realize that you know, the previous staff, Jetfish and company. They did a great job of rebuilding the roster, getting the team back

into a player first relevant again. And you know, Brent Bent will be the first one to tell you, like what jetfish and has got this here. Were great. Now we're looking to double down on it and build on to what they already established. You So, can you after a few practices fifteen or whatever, and just from the temperament of everybody, can you tell that they're going to be better than last year? Or is it way too

early to tell? I think it's still way too early to tell, because I'm still concerned with the guys they have on the defensive line because they lost nine scholarship players from the defensive line last year and all of them are starters. You know, Arizona's gonna have a whole new starting defensive line in this upcoming season. So can those guys still be able to be productive like the group they had last years? That's one thing that I'm paying attention to.

But I'm very confident in what they got right now because ty tay Yuga is a versatile defensive lineman who I think is really going to turn the heads this year. And then you have all Mountain West defensive end from Santa s State and Tray Smith who has shown a lot of great things practice, and you know, and one thing I won't say that gives Arizona fans a lot of optimism regarding deeps. The line is. You know, last year Isaiah A. Ward wasn't on anybody's radar, and then he just shot up the depth

chart and really became a mainstay in Arizona's defense. Big Bill Norton, you know, he transferred to Georgia or excuse he transferred to Arizona from Georgia. And we're wondering, is that because Georgia has such a great defensive line or is it because in terms of his production and what he showed. Is that because Georgia has a great defensive line, or is it because Bill Norton's dead? And it showed last year that no, Bill Norton's good. Georgia just

had a great defensive line. He just needed an opportunity. So the guys that they're getting in the transferportal, like Chewba, my Eye and Trey Smith and all these other guys, I think if they can come in and be productive, I think Arizona's defense is gonna be great again. Because Jakob Manu at linebacker, I mean, Danny Gonzale is the offer of the linebackers. Coach. He said that Jacoman, who is the best linebacker in the Big

twelve. And then when you add in Trade and Stokes to Caario Davis, Gunnermaldonado and Dalton Johnson, most of that defensive secondary coming back and they're gonna be blitzing more under Dwayna Kina. I think this defense could be really special. And then we all know about Noah and Timac on the other side, but you know, who are the other complimentary pieces. Who are you know, some other wide receivers that are going to step up? Who are some

running backs? Because remember Arizona's losing Michael Wiley, DJ Williams and Jonah Coleman so well Speedy Luke and Quality Conley. Will those guys step up and have big time seasons? So there's a few question marks, But right now, I look at this Arizona football team being really a surefire top fifteen, top twenty two. You know, again with all the transfer portal movement, a guy leaves, another guy comes in, and Kevin Green is gone. They

you know, they get another receiver. Are these things kind of like trade offs? Is that? Is that how you see a lot of this stuff. I mean, you can look at it like that, but you know, Kevin who's going to be a guy competing for starting snaps right? You know, is Ray Melo Murphy a guy that's going to come in and start or is he going to be another depth piece, a guy that you could just throw in, you know if one guy gets hurt, I don't know.

Now you also have to think that you know, Kevin Green probably just wanted to go to Kevin Cummings or in Jet Fish, and he probably felt most comfortable with that staff and realized, you know, even though I may have a good thing here, I can have something better at Washington. So everyone has their own arguments or cases as to why they're going. But I mean Raymelo Murphy. You look at his explosiveness last year at Old Dominion. I think he was top thirty in the country and yards per catch, So

he's a he's a pretty good audition. Just because you're losing Kevin Green doesn't mean that you know your wide receiver room is is crumbling right now. I think Arizona's receiver room is in a great spot. And a lot of the youngsters in springs Ball, like Brandon Phelps the freshman and Jackson Holeman who got banked up towards the end of the spring, those guys showed a lot of

promise. So I know people talk about t mac as the main guy, but Arizona's receiver room is in a really good place, not just this year, but also moving forwards. Uh guys not named t mac or or Fafita who were maybe a key guy that returned that will help him next year, that didn't decided not to leave. Well, I mean, I'm an offensive lion snob, so I really think that big Jonas Savianea that was that was big time getting him to stay in, to stay locked in. Same with

Raymond Palito. I think those two as your as your bookend tackles is a really good recipe for Arizona. But outside of the guys on the offensive line, I think the tight ends are really going to emerge this year. And I really think that Roberto Miranda, the guy from Germany who's entering his fifth year at the u of A. I don't know if you guys know this, but we have a nickname for him, since he's from Germany. We

call him dos Gronk, and dos Gronk is a man amongst boys. The coaches will even tell you, like Brent Brady said that when he first met Roberto, he thought like he was a like a staffer or like a coach or something like that, because he just looked like a man compared to everybody else. But you know, Roberto, he's an interesting story because you know, he was a guy in Germany who was just run track and one of his buddies said, Hey, are school's having football trayofs you want to come

play? And he said, yeah, sure, So he went discovered his passion for football, and then he was so good that he started getting recruited and started getting letters, and then he came over to Arizona as a Kevin summer recruit in twenty twenty. And think about this, a guy from Germany

going over to the United States in the middle of a pandemic. He was going through all sorts of things over here, and despite the multiple coaching changes, he stayed locked in and in the spring, he has showed his abilities to be pass catcher. He's been mostly a run blocking or pass blocking tight end. Anytime you see him in the game, he was mostly used to

block. He's only got one catch in his whole Arizona career, but he has showed a lot of promise in spring, and I think with you know, Brent, brentan tweaking the offense a little bit and going more twelve personnel and having two tight ends out there, you're gonna be in this. You're gonna be seeing a lot more of Roberto, Miranda and Cambernet. But Roberto, you know, only one catch at Arizona in his four years. You're gonna see that man have double digit catches. He's gonna be a really big

time addition to Arizona's offense. Well, we talked about, you know, what's going to be different. I mean, I think clearly that's gonna be one of the things. I mean, you know, dating back to Grom people have been dying, you know, and coach has been saying, we're gonna get the ball to the tight end. We're gonna get the ball to the tight end. All through Rich rod Well, nobody. They didn't get the ball to Anybody called Kevin, someone was here. But then uh,

you know with uh you finally saw with Tanne McLachlin last year. I mean, that's something that we're going to see that's going to be a lot different in terms of you know, Roberto mentioned it during the postgame spring game press conference that the tight Ends, as he said, are getting a lot of love this with this group. Yeah, and it's they're getting really creative too

with the tight Ends. They're you know, motioning them and having Roberto going and lining up as a fullback and being a league walker for speedy Luke or quality. Oh there goes the phone. Yeah, we lost him. He warned us that that guy. Let me ask you the same question. I asked him, do you think that this team, as little as we know, right, yeah, will be better than last year year? Well, you know, they're they're going through a lot of change, but so is

everybody else, right, everybody. Everybody's roster's turning over. I was, I was going through. Uh. The Athletic posted. Eric Wasserman posted his latest uh you know, top twenty five for next year. The highest rated team had in the Big twelve was Kansas State, followed I think at fifteen, followed by Arizona at nineteen. You know, and Arizona plays Kansas State

in a non conference game in the third game of the year. So we're gonna find out something about, Okay, who's really good in the in the Big twelve and next year that game is over there, it's up there. It's the third week of the season. You know we're gonna find out early. You know, where does Arizona sit in the Big twelve if in fact Kansas State is that good and considered the best team, you know, the best team out there in the league. So we'll see. I mean,

I think they're still pretty good. Steve the question. Look, there's always some getting used to each other, you know, when it comes to actually being in games right. You know, it's different from last year because you know, the way maybe the way Brent Brennan and his staff run manage a game might be different from the way these guys that you know did it under Jed Fish. But you know it's a coach's job to try and minimize as much as they can of that to make things go as smoothly as possible.

I think the biggest difference will be on the defensive flight. Like you said, I think the offense is going to continue to flow. I think the biggest gloss that they have, and I thought he was fantastic, was Coleman who went to Jed because he was such a workhorse. Just you give him the ball used to get you six yards no matter what. And defensively they have their pieces right except for like you said, maybe on the defensive money.

Yeah, but then you know, you know what effect does Duayna Keena have on this defense in terms of making these guys, as Duyne Keene used to talk about, you know, guys running around with their hair on fire. Does he get guys to play a little harder, a little more enthusiasm,

a little smarter, a little more passionate. How much does that elevate you know, what they're trying to do in terms of or what their talent that they have, because that was that was what Arizona was when Dwayne and Keenan was was here as a defensive coordinator and an offensive coordinator, getting guys to be better than you thought they could, coaching him up and yeah, coached him up, and that's you know, I'm certain he's probably bringing that

back, you know, to to this and then Dino Babers doing the same thing on the other side of the ball. So you know, I think, you know, well, we'll find out again relatively early with that Kansas State game. I was just really reading that about you know, reading that, I thought, God, this Kansas State game is suddenly a really big deal for Arizona because if they go off and they go up there and win that game, now you're talking about a team that people are talking about as

a as a potential favorite in the pack in the Big twelve. Right. I thought the other guy that they got, which was a great get, was to Cario Davis. To get him back, to get him back. It's important even though the dbs are going to be very good, right, he adds to the list of good players, right right, And you know that again, guy, Getting guys like that, uh, you know, is important to this team, and you know, keeping the guys, you know, I didn't realize I saw that there was a somebody. Fifteen guys

went to Washington from Arizona. Now, how many of them were guys that you know, top you know, top end got their a couple of recruits, as you mentioned, Jonah Coleman went there. We just talked about, you know, Kevin Green, you know some other guys. But it's kind of like, Okay, they're gone. How can you blame them right now? I mean they know what they know, they can they know their coaches go ahead. I don't get into the you know, shame on you, Jed, But now no, no, it is what you know. I

don't care. You know, look, Arizona got a bunch of Santos. They state guys, right and you know, hopefully the best of the best. At Sanders they state you don't have. Well, they wouldn't have taken them if they weren't, if they didn't think they could compete at this level, right, And that's kind of in the world we live in. It's

all about leveling up where you can play and how you feel comfortable. Now I'm looking forward to before before Justin's phone died, I wanted to I wanted to ask him, you know what, what are fans going to think of Brent Brandon? You know, when they see him on the sideline, they see him, you know, actually coaching, you see him in press conferences, what do you think of it? I think the goodes. I think he's gonna be dick tomy like he's very not sedate, but he's very uh

low key. Doesn't get excited. Even in his press conferences there are more about hey, this is what we're gonna do. He doesn't get excited in those either. Kind of tells you straightforward not an exciting way. It's almost not in a boring way, but but in a in a friend almost a matter of fact kind of way. Matter, that's a matter of fact way. Uh, it's not. It's quotable, but not quotable, if that makes any sense. Some days, yes, some days no, it's gonna

be back. You want it back. You want to me to coach? You got got him? You got him? No, you got him. And guess what, he'll win some games. It's now about winning the big games. Yeah. Well, and then then the question will be, look, well, you know Jed Fish and his staff were incredible recruiters. They got some guys here that you did you know, especially coming out of the the death March that they were in that you've got guys to come here and

did. I mean, he couldn't turn it around if you hadn't gotten better players. So you got to give him credit for that. A big question for me is Ken, Brent Brandon, continue to recruit at that level because you were we only got too many stuff in this one. I know, I'm gonna ask you a dumb question. I think I know the answer too already. You're not. You didn't come off bitter when he left. No, I didn't blame him for leaving. I kind of didn't like the way

it went down. But in terms of Jedfish going to Washington, I had no problem with that. He had seven and a half million reasons to go. Sure, I get that. There's still no issue with that. There still a lot of people in this town who are but they need to stop. I agree they need to stop. You know, were months removed. Let's move on you. You are who you are. Somebody's gonna give you a five million dollar raise. You're gonna go, sure, and no matter

where you're at, well, I'll probably go to anywhere. But as U, I don't know about that. I think you would do that. No, I would five million dollars more. No, that's easy to say sitting next to me. Okay, if I'm making if I'm making two and a half or three million, which is plenty of money, all the money I w whatever need'm they're gonna give you seven and a half. I'm gonna tell me, I don't know. I'm gonna throw the finger. Put the light

detecked her on him right now, strive him up. I am I'm throwing the finger. I told you my daughter got a full ride to a CEO you never even saw. She never even saw that one in recycle before she even got home from school. That boves her, doesn't involve you. We gotta fact check that one true story. Okay, let's go, we gotta go. That's a true story. All right, Let's take our next break word and come back. I'd love to take your calls five to zero,

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us. We've got fifteen minutes. If you guys want to give us a quick call five two zero four one six seventy four four zero Jay, you have some movie? Yeah? Okay. So we got the release on the All Pack twelve team as it relates to Arizona. Three first teamers, Dakota Kennedy left fielder, Reagan Shaki, the freshman centerfielder who's really good, and then Ali Skaggs, the second baseman. She was named to the All Pack twelve team, the first team I think for the second year in a row.

But those are the three first teamers. Ali Skaggsho was Defensive Player of the Year this year, didn't get Defensive Player of the Year because her teammate Taylor Beiald, a shortstop, did get. She was a co Defensive Player of the Year. And she was also on the on the third team and on the All Defensive team. And then Carly Scoop in first baseman and a Yasta Silva the pitcher. We're named to the second team. Silva's leads the league with twenty one wins. She's fourteenth in the n C Double A and

wins, so she's got she So they were both second team. And then has mentioned Taylor bille the co Defensive Player of the Year. Then Emily Shep she was named to the All Freshman team. So seven uf A players had got some sort of all conference honor. So that's the complete list. Well some good things scooping. Uh we had our guy, uh, Bobby Bobby four years ago already, yep. Do we just celebrate her four years? How time flies? Yes, because she was a study coming in from the

local local touson high right high, I think yeah. And now her career is all a bit over, she's a senior. But anyway, so you know is good again this year. Not Arizona good when you think about the Mike the Mike Candre years. But nonetheless, uh, we'll probably get in the n C Double A tournament. The question is that, you know, I don't think they're going to be good enough to you know, be a top sixteen seed or in host a regional. But you know, who knows.

But they're you know, they're pretty good. So they'll be what we'll see them in the postseason, I'm sure. Yeah, okay, cool, A lot of good players. I mean, honestly, the shortstop is must be fantastic. Yeah yeah, and then went well and and shocky the center fielder. She's the lead off hereter centerfielder. She's fast as hell? Who is what? What? Great is the shortstop sophomore? So I gotta go.

I should have gone. See I love those people in midfielders. Yeah, the one to the short stop and second basement would be a great combination. Yeah yeah, well that at least I think else is a senior. Yeah yeah, so wow, so she'll be gone, Okay, super yeah, but you know, good, you know, good, good for them,

good for they play, you know, they played this weekend. They play Thursday, they've got Washington. They're the last game of the day in the packed Doug turn I think it's like scheduled for six thirty or so. Yeah, yeah, I think it starts Thursday and it goes yeah yeah, yeah, there's four games on on Thursday, and so they're they're they're the last one on the list and that that tournament is up at Stanford. Okay, a lot of things going on now at the end of the year with

baseball doing so well. Next week, right, they start up their tournament next week. No, No, they've got no weekends. Yeah, they're They're on the road at Utah, which is a turnament, which is uh, you know for for Utah's in the second place, so Arizona. I don't know if they can clinch it, but certainly if they if they put some distance between themselves in Utah being good position to do them. But then

Oregon State comes in. Oregon State, I mean, they're like in third place in the league, but they're the highest ranked team in the rankings. They're they're a top ten team. They'll be coming here for a three game series that in its rank season next weekend. We you know, we had a collar yesterday he said, you know, fans need to get out there, right, maybe that's what I probably go see it because this should be fun. They're fun. I've been a few games this year and it's just

fun. It's a it's a blast. The food is good. Now you can spend a fortune on food out there because they've got they got some exotic food out there, like the servisas. They've got a they've got a stand where you can get the like the deluxe nachos and burritos and all that and stuff. Or you can just go get your standard, you know, get a couple of dogs and a beer at the at the regular stands, some nachos. You'll probably do that next week in sixteen seventeen. Yeah, it

should be fun. And then uh, and then they go into the Pack into the Packbuff Tournament, which is going to be up in Phoenix the following week, so that their their season got extended, uh you know, because I mean the College World Series ends like at the end of June, right right, it seems like if you're a baseball player, the the year agost forever. Yeah, whatever, those guys are done with school for a month

before their season ends. If they if they get that one. Okay, so should be right, man, Okay, what else is going on? So we we're finishing up. Anybody, we'll call again, call five two O four one six four four zero. We'd love to hear from you. What game is tonight in the NBA game tonight Austin and Cleveland the first game right now? The first game Boston's up forty two thirty four. And then tonight Dallas is on the road at Oklahoma City. Especiuld be very good.

Seriously is that one just starting that series? That's tonight, that's game one at six thirty. Ye. So ol clem See is the number one seed right in right in the west. Yeah, what do you think? They're young? But they swept the New Orleans. I think that they the five of us could have swept New Orleans while there's only four of us here. Christ On points we got to call it talking crazy stopping right now. Hi, you're on the Aaron Eye on the ball. Hey, guys, how's

it going. This is Sean, that first time caller, a longtime listener. Appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, I love listening to you guys. We have a cure for We have a cure for that shot go ahead? Is there a lot of feedback insite? Is it okay? Yeah? No, we're good. We're good. Cool. So, uh tonight's baseball game, Summer Hill threw some some shade at these guys es U after they beat us. They swept us last time here. I'm I'm nervous about it now.

You know what are you? What are your guys thoughts about you know, saying well, we want to beat him by a hundred. I believe it. I love it. But it's also like throwing fire gasoline on the fire that we don't need to Well, I'm with you. Is that in that? You know what, especially in a rivalry. Is it a conference game and it's not a conference game, but nonetheless, but you don't want to go up there and get your butts kicked, especially when you've been talking.

So I it's you know, to me, it's better left alone. But you know, yeah, you gotta appreciate the passion or whatever. Right, Yeah, definitely got my interest. I know where my my eyeballs are gonna be. It's not gonna be on NBA. It's gonna be uh watching that. You know. Have you been going to the games here locally? Yeah? Yeah, my son and I actually caught uh Friday against Stanford. We we didn't make it the whole time. That game is just took forever.

It's just crazy like Saturday's game. You know. I look at my son had his baseball game at seven thirty at you know all and I, you know, I listened to the game all the way there, and I'm like seven thirty and they're already in the fifth, like it was like eight twenty. When we finally got past the fifth on Friday. It's just like, yeah, it's just it was a long, long game. But I listened to a different color. Yeah, I think it was maybe yesterday.

I was talking about the crowd. I think it's perfect. I mean there's enough people. I'm a big guy. I don't I don't fit in the in the stands as it is, so when I get the two people are in front of us, it's perfect, you know. Yeah, so what we were saying, because you know, I know, you know, you always want more people and that kind of stuff, But I you know, four or five thousand people. Four thousand people for a college baseball game,

I think is pretty good. And and you know you got it, you got it good and as we say, as I think we said yesterday,

you know, there's always got it good. It'll be it'll be more as we progress here to get it deep into the or into the playoffs, because that's how I think the Oregon State Series is gonna So depending on how we do, you know tonight in Utah, I think that's gonna really grab it should grab Tucson to cut out and support them because we're playing the second ring or you know, standing second place and then in the third place teams the

next two weekends. Well we better show up for that. So let me ask you real quick, seven minutes left, you what do you like about this baseball team? It wasn't good early, but now it's very good. Yeah, So I totally was not interested in watching early and then they just kind of turn it around. I follow, and so it's like, Okay, if it's good baseball, I want to go watch. If they're out there getting you know, swept by a s U, I don't. I'm I'm not a fair Weather fan, but I don't want to go out and

watch a SU come here and beat us three games in a row. So yeah, I would say, I like, uh, the pitching, I think pitch is pretty good. And Mason White, he's my son's favorite player. He's like, the guy's so fast. Yeah, I'm like, that's how you have to run the bases. So yeah, it's just fun to go out with my son and you know, he's so into baseball. So it's, uh, it's just our little hangout bonding. It take to go and it's just it's a nice evening sun sunset. It's just it's perfect.

I don't know, I don't know why more people don't go. That's what we've been talking about. Sean, thanks so much, man, appreciate the call. Yeah, goodods, all right, appreciate it. Thanks for listening to. His name was Sean. Yeah, okay, thanks for that up. Steve, Well, you make everything else, like the assists and turnovers, and we don't make up assists, all right, we don't make up you have to. You took that whole thing wrong, the whole thing wrong.

No, they're not going to like you took that. You took that whole thing wrong. But but he makes it. He makes a good point, is that you know, and and I said that you know because when we're talking to I think it was his name was the Blair. They called you to say, you know, at the end of the year, it

didn't look great and you thought this team is struggling. You know, people were saying the Chip Hill yah YadA, YadA, YadA, and and so maybe at the you know, since they weren't great at the beginning of the year, some people just kind of forgot about them. But they have been incredible to watch. They you know, they're seventeen and seven in the league. You know, they're they're they're in first place. You got a good chance to win the league. I think the last time Arizona won the league,

you know, they won the National Championship. So uh, you know, I don't think they've won it since that. Since that twenty twelve. Have they gone in a second the next year? Remember they came back with Johnson? Yeah, so the next couple years. Yeah, So, I

mean, you know, this is a good team. It's good and that Oregon State series is going to be it's I mean, they really got their work cut out in these six games, you know, playing Utah who's in second place, and then Oregon State, who was just really damn good.

So it should be an interesting couple of weeks. We're gonna really try and get Chip Hale on before the Oregon State Series next week and we'll we'll just get his take on how his season is gone and was it I mean, has it been a roller coaster or was it just like you know, where was his head early early in the year, right, right, It takes some time to marinate. And they hit. I'm sure pitching has a lot

too in their hitting. And well, you know again, uh well we mentioned uh Clark CANDIOTTI you know, picture of the week, you know, through a complete games shut out this weekend, and he looked really good. I mean again, he's my favorite pitcher. I love watching him throw because you're just out there in no fear. Right, He'll or whatever pitch he thinks he needs to throw, and he's going to make you hit it, and it's hard to do. Every time I've seen him pitch, he's pitched

great. Yeah, okay, so cool. All right, we've got three minutes. Anybody else want to call? Three and a half minutes. Actually, if you want to call, talk to us real quick. I hope, I hope you do. First time callers that We've got a few of those. Now, Yeah, that's great, you know, I think people are getting to know what Steve. It only took four years. I'm still wondering why people listen to us, man, No, no, I know people listen. It's very cool because we see it on Facebook and we see

them finance. Is that you know somebody that they said I knew something was wrong with you when you were on the show. Oh yeah, well I was that pitch checked in on me. I was at the grocery store here, whatever, what's this a MPM school? Replace? Uh? So, I said, could you give me a snow cone? He says, are you in the radio? He says why? He says your voice? You're the other guy? Which one? Are you? The other guy? You know who I was? So? Who are you? I said, Steve?

Oh yeah you and Jay? Yeah. I listen to you guys at the AMP. Whatever the q Q t you? So that's crowd to get you guys here? We have you got up your game? Dude? You be hanging around with the QT guys over. I gotta go give me some thirst busters whatever. Our QT is just a scary place, you know it really is. But hey, look you want some good people. One of the sponsors now we just I love their chocolate donut. Ice cream is good too, and then they wonder why we're donuts pizza. I don't need ice

cream. Okay, you don't need ice cream. I try to stay away from that kind of food. I don't need that. Well, you're you're it's our age. You'll be eating whatever. We need to fix that. This is last day. Yeah, thanks for we said to be Okay, okay, then tomorrow I was gonna say thanks and give you a tear and we'll wait for tomorrow. Okay, thanks for helping us. Absolutely, What the hell? Why did you do this? What joining us? Experience?

Experience and exposure? Okay, cool? And what exposure? Exposure? Exposure to? What t you've been You've been exposed, probably been exposed to COVID, probably neurovirus, whatever, You've been exposed to anyone of a number of things. Maybe so, but I'm still here, Yeah, you are. Thank you. We do appreciate it. And Ryan's gonna RAN's gonna be here for helping us this summer. So Ryan, we do appreciate that as well. So you don't have a microphone yet, but you'll get one, so

we'll graduate with that. Okay, all right, So the you know. Yeah, you guys have been fun. You guys are all our interns have been great. You know, we've had some some good you know, I see I see d On on the fan duel TV thing all the time. So she had a great get yesterday or today. So here she had spoke to Mike Smith, a longtime Hall of Fame jockey on on Twitter today. It was just great. She's grown up. It's a lot of fun, cool stuff. She had the second place winner. We were on we were

on chat all weekend with with winters. I'll still upset at that's Steve. I had the second and third place horse in that race. Didn't have the winter. I know I had the winner would have been nice. And the thing is is that I flew into into the house and the race was coming on so real fastin I threw down to bed and then I lost in the

photo finish. Yeah, you and nobody had all right. Hey, thanks everybody for being here, Thanks for our new caller, and we'd love to get more new calls, so Sean, Yeah, we appreciate you guys listening, and as always, a podcast will be up again tonight. So yeah, all the podcasts from the lat from those days that I missed last week are all up as well, so we'll see you tomorrow with some more great guts. Catch you then,