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He's gonna join us next But right 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:54.280 now it's time for Three Things Thursday. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:56.959 It is three Thingstersday. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:00.880 Wow. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.400 James Worthy covered the basketball stank withits will Scratch the 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:12.680 Baseball Itch Three Things Thursday. Football football start with the Rams. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.960 A lot going on here? 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.280 What do you think about Roki Sasaki stank? Would you 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:16.880 leave them up? 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.520 What do you think? Tell me now? Uh, Pooka is 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:26.520 in rehab. You get sideways. You're accused of saying f 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.959 the Jews and biting a lady. And there's well a 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.680 bite mark to prove it that follows your bite pattern. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.880 Check the record. There was some horseplay, you know there was. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.040 Yeah, the lawyer had to admit. Yeah, that's that's our, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.080 that's ours. That's definitely I recognize those teeth. You're absolutely 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.600 right working on a deal with in Visiline right now. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.920 As a matter of fact, how do you try to 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.040 take some of that heat off? 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.160 I'll go to rehab. Leave me alone. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.440 Dealing with something over here? How insensitive can you be? 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.960 Lawyer says it has nothing to do with the bite 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.640 that they acknowledged the slur there was that they deny some. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.840 Horse play, and no one said anything about our Jewish friend. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:17.400 He says, of course, there is no connection that Pouka 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.240 has already been at the Malibu spot. Where are you 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.119 going to rehab Malibu? Of course? 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.839 Where else where else the one where you can hook 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.640 up with Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.320 It says he has already been at the Malibu self 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.480 improvement spot, that he is scheduled to be there a 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.760 while longer. So here on the Petro Some Money Show, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.000 we hope that that lawyer is sincere, that Pooka is 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.240 trying to better himself. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.360 Well, if it's a drug, it's got to be cocaine, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.560 because if you're smoked out, you're not biting anybody. If 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 you're on opioids, you're not biting anybody. I mean maybe 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.120 if you're methed out. But math to me doesn't scream 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.160 NFL wide receiver. So and you're not leaning over like 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.359 the San Francisco people that are super de fantail. Yeah, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.799 to me, it screams the white horse. I was thinking 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.120 acid just thought she was a big hot dog. He's 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.120 gonna take a nice to me. It's cocaine. Cocaine after 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.800 the Jews with the bite, that's cocaine, Matt. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.960 The good news, well, the good news is that Pooka 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 is really trying to make himself better. The good news 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.960 is it gives the Rams a hell of a break 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.160 on having to sign him to an extension right now. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.080 Can't be handing over one hundred and sixty million bucks 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.240 to a guy he's riding that white horse. He's trying 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.039 to get right, he's got a lawsuit hanging over his head. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:43.279 Acknowledges that it was a bite, perhaps horseplay, perhaps a 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.720 little more than that. So the Rams catch a break. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.719 Play it out, enjoy your five million dollar twenty twenty 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.680 six salary if you manage to make it through the 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.840 whole year, and then we'll revisit this next season. They can, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.039 of course franchise tag him. It's twenty eight million bucks 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.520 this year. That's going to jump over thirty million season. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.880 But as sure as helling one hundred and sixty million 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:08.599 bucks with a hundred million guaranteed, they certainly want to 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.160 give this thing one more season, in particularly one more 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.000 offseason before pulling that trigger. So a huge win for 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.880 the Rams on this one that they do not have 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.200 to thread the needle as to whether or not he's 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.919 going to hold out. They obviously have Super Bowl ambitions 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.279 the way they've spent money trading of a first round 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.960 draft pick. Can't afford to have him holding out, but 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.720 can't be holding out when he's in rehab and is 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:36.640 dealing with this negative pr at this particular moment. Also 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.920 to the Rams at the owners meetings, they're accused of 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.120 playing dirty pool. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.360 It us have something to do with Sean McVay being 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.120 at the pool while everybody else was taking a picture. No, okay, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.479 this has to do with Kyle shanmcaus I thought we 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.040 already cleared that up the other. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.320 Day, genuinely upset that he didn't make the head coach 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.160 picture and Todd Monk and I was just getting my 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.839 haircut for the picture. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:01.000 Uh. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:06.800 Kyle Shanahan joined the PFT crew at the league meetings 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.760 in Arizona, and he says he knows for a fact 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.440 the Rams were playing dirty pool and it ain't supposed. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.880 To work that way. Shanny called out his old guy. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.280 His old pal, part of the young guy crew, and 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.080 he was doing it with Lafleur sitting at the desk 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.200 with him by GC exactly right, the young guy crew 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.200 here he is. Matt Lafleur is at that desk too, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.920 the head coach for the Packers, and they're both getting 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.360 a hell of it. Well, Laffour is laughing about it. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.040 Shanahan seems genuinely pissed off that his team's got to 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:36.920 go to Australia. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:37.680 How's that working? 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.239 You don't get me started. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.240 I'm so glad. I'm so glad. It's though. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.280 They take a nineteen hour nap on the plane right 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.920 out there, and I think when we get there, I'm 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.520 like two days older. When we come back, I think 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:49.600 it's like going in a time machine. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.280 Yeah Land at the time. I'm pretty sure the Rams 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:54.200 lobbied for that game. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.520 Well, the fact they did bully the legal do right 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.560 and let us play the Rams and Max since we 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.240 got to go out of the country twice and they 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.720 requested us, I'm requesting them in Mexico. Oh not that, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:07.560 not that that gives us an advantage. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.440 It's just fair to make them go out of the country. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.040 That would be great to have the games between the 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:12.920 Rams of forty nine ers. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.560 I knew he might go this way when he brought 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.680 it up. I knew it. I knew it, So he's 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.640 ready for the right moment. Sorry, So I have brought 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:22.320 this up a little bit. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.000 So you think the Rams have lobby because they're they're 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.040 sick of seeing the forty nine ers dominate the crowd 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:28.760 at so far. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.960 And I can get that, Yeah that would yeah, yeah, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.480 I have to do a sign of cadence and have 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.160 our home game at their stadium, so I get their ambitions, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.680 but they were rewarded that, so I'm just hoping we 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.480 can get it before I get that. I love them 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:40.120 to come to Mexico. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.240 So it's not supposed to be that way, and that's 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.480 why he's so pissed off. The way it works is 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.040 when you are tabbed as the home team to play internationally, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.920 you're allowed to block two games that you want to 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.200 have played in your home stadium. Maybe it's one you 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:55.760 know that's going to sell out, make you a bunch 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.120 of money, and the other seven are open for the 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:04.240 league to choose for. And Shanahan saying the Rams specifically said, yeah, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.319 we'll go to Australia, but you're giving us the forty 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.280 nine Ers, and that did not sit well with him, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.240 which is why he wants to drag them down to 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.320 Mexico City. Seems like a pretty easy trip. You kind 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.880 of stay in the same time zone. I guess you're 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.400 playing at altitude and you got to deal with a 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.120 little bit of the customs thing. But I guess, I 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.880 guess it makes sense. I had heard that the Chargers 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.920 were in the mix for that as well, but ultimately 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.720 they got their wish. They were heading to Australia with 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.760 the forty nine ers and there's not a damn thing 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.000 Kyle Shanahan or the forty nine ers can do about 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.640 it except for lose two days on your way down. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.520 They go to a time warp on the way back. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.040 Things are better for them. And I'll tell you why. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.079 There's nothing wrong with that substation and it's not causing 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.800 any of those injuries. Gonna rock down too Electric Avenue 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.400 and it doesn't cause me injury. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:59.560 Sean McVeigh at the owners meetings and the same show. Actually, no, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.000 this is on different show. One of the other TV 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.920 shows made a public plea that, unfortunately we know today 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:06.960 fell on deaf Ears. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.160 But Kirk was awesome. He especially he's played at a 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.200 high level. He's a starting quarterback in this league. Is 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.400 just a matter of what's he looking for, what the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.240 situation is, and if there is, you know, some interest 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.960 in us Kirk, come see us. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:25.960 Man public plea on our show. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:27.360 Thanks for giving me. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.320 That nug, Shawn, I appreciate it. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.880 Of course, Kirk, we now know, did not did not 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.480 take the invitation from Sean McVay. Instead, he signed with 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.880 the Raiders. Never mind the agent jerk job that Adam 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.240 Schefter did announcing it is a five year, one hundred 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.440 and seventy two million dollar deal for Kirk Cousins that 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.280 is all voidable years. There is ten million dollars guaranteed 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.000 in here, actually eleven point three million dollars guaranteed. They 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.000 are paying Cousins nine of the ten million bucks this year, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.120 and then they guaranteed him ten million dollars for next year. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.040 So it's essentially a two year, twenty million dollars deal. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.280 But the Falcons still owe him ten million bucks this year, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.319 so they'll pick up beyond the veteran minimum. The rest 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.199 of it is fluff, but a lot of people excited 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.760 about this for the Raiders. A great guy, a corny 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.000 kind of stiff white guy that. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.720 I think he'd be a great analyst. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.560 Yeah, seems like that's going to be in his future, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.079 but for now, still wants to play and took the 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.720 Raiders gig because he thinks he's going to get the 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.079 start opening day and very well can end up playing 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.320 the entire year. Remember Tom Brady pretty much sat out 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.080 his entire first year, which RW bledsoe. You had Patrick 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.520 Mahonmes sit out the first year. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.959 They didn't draft Brady with any expectation that he was 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.880 going to become a great player. You draft Ferdy Mendoza. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.640 Yeah, but I think that was Brady's experience. He sat 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.920 a year, felt like it really benefited him. It doesn't 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.680 seem to happen anymore. The latest one we can remember 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.720 was Patrick Mahomes getting drafted ninth overall and sitting for 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.160 an entire season behind and. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.320 Alex Scarson sat behind kitt Now. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.120 Full year exactly. That's right as the number one overall pick. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.319 So that seems to be how they would prefer this 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.000 to go. And Kirk Cousin's still plenty good enough to 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.200 play good enough football to maybe make that happen. Finally, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.679 our third thing, Jim Harbaugh at the owners Meetings meeting 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.560 with the assembled media, asked about life with Mike McDaniel, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.720 two quirky personalities, a lot of people wondering how they're 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:32.240 going to get along. Here is his sort of analysis 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.040 or his idea of how it's going so far. Learning 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.040 offense from Mike McDaniel. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:43.160 They made the analogy about the making a better candle. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.599 You know, you don't make a better candle, make a 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:49.000 light bulb, you know, And that's kind of that analogy 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.360 makes sense to me, you know when I think of 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.840 you know, the the many many meetings that we've had 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.880 and Mike talking about offensive football. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.360 Don't need to make a better candle, you make a 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:12.200 light bulb. That's what they're doing over in Elsigundo. They're 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.360 turning candles into light bulbs. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.880 Felt like they had pretty good grasp on electricity before 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:21.000 the statement was made. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.600 I was just burning the midnight oil. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.200 I guess, yeah, that was I mean, I didn't know 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.760 that the Chargers offensive coordinator last year was like literally 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.480 like a Geico caveman who couldn't even wipe his own 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.480 ass loot like it felt like it. I mean I 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.440 was sitting here like, oh my god, like this guy. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.840 He couldn't even speak. He just grunted into the Uh yeah, 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.880 he just like an animal. Well, there you go. That 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.560 is three things Thursday, and we'll be right back with 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:53.120 USC head baseball coach Andy Stankowitz, who is doing a 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.880 great job even though Dato Field is facing the wrong way. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:08.199 In twenty twenty six and beyond, this is Petrosen Money. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.960 On demand, on demand, Demand Demand. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.319 Petro some money in five to seventy eight sports Live 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.760 everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Dodger Baseball Tomorrow, ten am, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.400 first pitch. Remember, as Tim Katson Company, you'll have Dodgers 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.760 on deck for breakfast nine a m. With a ten 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:25.720 am first pitch. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.160 Well, we could argue about that for a while, but 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.480 Andy Stankowitz is our guest. He has woken up the 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:39.240 sleeping giant that is USC Baseball. They're back at dato Field, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.520 facing the wrong way, but they're back. They're twenty seven 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.040 and three on the season, rank number eight in the 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:51.760 latest USA Today poll. After eleven years loping it up 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.160 at Grand Canyon University, the Trojans have found a coach 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:02.560 to fix their baseball program. Huge series at Jackie Robinson, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:07.600 three game weekend series taking on UCLA. Who's number one? 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.120 It's all sold out? Andy Stegowitz joining us on your 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:17.120 Southern California and Toyota Dieter celebrity hotline. USC baseball coach 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.880 and a great Trojan coach. Thanks for joining us. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.200 How are you DOUCHA great man? That's the heck of 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.920 an intro man. Dang, I was impressive. Thank you. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.880 We've been waiting for USC baseball to come around for 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.960 a while, coach, and it's a beautiful thing to see. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.440 And it's a really great thing when both programs in 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.880 town have a good thing going. How much do you 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.800 guys look forward to these matchups at Jackie Robinson and DADO. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.360 I know they're a big deal for the students, but 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.160 sold out is pretty impressive. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.760 Well, I think yeah, I think it's big. I think 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.040 I think he nailed it. I think, you know, trying to. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.960 But coach Avage has done over the years over that 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.280 at UCLA has been pretty impressive. Obviously, he's done a 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.520 fantastic job of building that program. We're on that cuff 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.360 right trying to kind of trying to build it well 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.200 and build it for the long haul. And I feel 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.560 like we've made some good strides and so now you've 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.120 got a chance to people are recognized. You know, it's 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.320 southern California a little bit, right, and I'm talking about 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.040 geography wise, right, what's happening here in Los Angeles? And 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.880 so yeah, it'll be exciting match up. We've got two 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.800 great programs. They've been incredibly consistent to do what they've done, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.200 start out as the one ranked team and to be 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.560 able to hold onto that through I think halfway through 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.920 the season pretty close. Well done by them, and we're 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.080 we're ready to go though. Our boys are excited about 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.640 about the challenge. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.560 Knocking on that door in twenty four coach, and then 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.480 twenty five you get into the tournament, and then this 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.880 year is can you carry over from once? Because you 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.200 said it's a long term thing, right, you're building something, 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.560 can you carry twenty four to twenty five, twenty five 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:57.400 to twenty six years? 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.360 I believe so I think, yeah, I think that's part 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.840 of the plan. I think you look at every coach 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.880 Dato did. I'm not coach Dato. I'm not even doing 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.000 it for a moment. Even try to pretend that that 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.879 I'm nearly as good as coach data will coach Gillespie. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.280 The people that I admired as a young man, as 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.639 a young player in southern California. I grew up in 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.520 this area, so I knew what they had done. But 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.080 they built it. They built it well. They built it 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.720 from the ground up, and it tested strong, you know, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.520 and endured some times during some storms. We're just just 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.959 wanted in the new stadium. It's helpful. I know, I 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.880 know it's not. It's it's the configuration is different than 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.359 in the past one. But it works. It looks fine 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.600 and it's beautiful, and so I think that's part of 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.680 the building process as well, and it helps some recruiting, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.320 and I think it's all. It's all part of it's 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.080 trying to talked about first got here. We want to 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.040 we want to have a presence in in in Suthern, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.000 California in college baseball. And I think the boys took 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.840 that challenge to heart and the groom gep being able 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:56.399 to step So. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.800 Last year you had one of the best players in 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.120 spalling ethan Hedge. Its kind of your own sho hal 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.280 Tani was your closer. It is your best hitter. When 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.639 when you're looking to replace that, how do you how 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.199 do you go about it, and is it something the 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.159 players kind of do that they raise their hand to say, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.480 I'm gonna be that guy this year. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.960 Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. I mean, you know, it's 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.000 it's very it's difficult to have a two way guy 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.040 at any level. I mean, with show Tony's done at 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.800 the big level is crazy, but it's not easy. But 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.240 he was a great, great arm great skilled young man, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.720 and he had the mental toughness to get on the 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.600 mound late in the game and close out games. And 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.439 that's not easy either, as you guys know, and so 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.240 to try to find that again, it's difficult. But we 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.280 certainly we recognized us with a lot of young men coming 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.560 up from programs in high school that want opportunity to play, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.159 to do it two ways. And so we've done it, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.480 and there's a couple of guys here that have shown 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.399 the desire to do it. And it may take a 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.520 little bit more time for them to establish their mound 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.040 presence and the presence in the battles box, but we 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.520 certainly look at it. But you got it's hard to do. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.440 It's just it's just typical task. But you got to 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.359 be really really good at one or the other, because 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.760 if you just don't get the time, the practice time 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.480 to really to do both sometimes and so one of 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.080 those has got to come pretty pretty not necessarily easy, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.760 but a little more natural for you. And hedges too hard. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:21.359 You had a great sinker and a good fighter, and 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.840 he was competitive. It wasn't like he had to throw 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.840 a ton of bullpens in the in the midweek because 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.360 he was too busy hitting anyways. So it worked for him. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.640 Andy Stankowitz our guest, the former Saint Paul High School swordsman, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.640 serving the Gateway Cities with his sword in basketball and baseball. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.280 And uh, of course you we we talked about GCU 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.359 in the intro and and you had a great career 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.880 there five times I think whack Coach of the Year 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:55.160 for baseball. How different was your approach building that baseball program? 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:56.040 Uh? 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.119 As uh as it is at us. See how different 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.399 does it have to be? Are the resources very different? 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.280 Because you certainly have been able to do it where 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:06.160 others have failed. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.360 Well, I appreciate it. No, I think, Betrick, it's really similar. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.639 I mean when I got to Grand Canyon, it was 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.719 Division two and in the in the eighties they had 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:20.800 won four national titles. They had a longtime coach there 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.760 that had did it for a long time, when a 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.560 lot of national titles at the NI level, and so 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.720 it was I believe it. It was a really similar kind 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.879 of when I looked at both programs, like, Okayle's so 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.159 this isn't necessarily too new to me. I knew that 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.000 we had when as a grand Cayne, It's like, Okay, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.359 this has been a great program in the past. What 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.080 are we going to do? And I show us all 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.880 the time. I was really fortunate I coached at ASU 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.120 for three years under coach Murphy, who's now that Pat 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.400