PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Highs and Lows: Surviving Arizona Sports

Episode Date: April 22, 2022

Throughout the week, Arizona sports have been through a lot. Between Devin Booker's injury and Kyler Murray's drama... We're here to get through Arizona sports highs and lows together.Join host Makayla Perkins and the PHNX Crew as they discuss everything that's happened this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Phoenix Sports Podcast presented by the drafting sportsbook app, America's top-rated sportsbook app. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe wherever you get your podcast, and leave us a five-star review. I'm your host, Michaela Perkins, and joining me today, as always, as of late, Tierston Seussle and Derek Montia.

Hi, everybody. Happy Friday, everybody. Happy Earth Day. Earth Day, yes. Oh, I thought you said birthday. I was like, what? I was like, oh, my God, I'm a terrible friend. It is the 22nd, though, and I was born on the 22nd.

So technically it's kind of like my almost my half birthday. Okay. All right. We'll give it to you. What are you guys doing to celebrate the weekend? Anything exciting? Diamondbacks baseball. That's what I got on the plate.

I'm also the commissioner of a pro wrestling organization. So I have things to tend to when it comes to that as well. Oh, yeah? Lots of wrestling things. I couldn't tell you the first thing about wrestling. So I'm not even going to try to talk about it with you. I'll make as many metaphors as I can. Well, happy Friday to all of you who are watching.

If you're on Twitter, come on over to our YouTube channel so that you can comment and watch the show with us and add your opinions and thoughts. We love to incorporate you in the show. If you're on YouTube right now, say what's up. Say hello. I see a couple of comments already. We will be talking about the Kyler Murray comments on social media. So don't go anywhere because we'll get right into that. But first, we've got a ton of cool stuff coming up at PHNX, including tonight.

We have our son's game three watch party at the Ainsworth. We have a really cool special guest that will be joining the broadcast. Alan Williams will be there tonight. So make sure to come out to our sons watch party. If you haven't RSVPed, head on over to our Twitter at PHNX underscore Sports or at PHNX underscore sons and RSVP to that. We also have a coyotes game coming up. It's the last coyotes game of the year.

You get to ride the party bus. You'll get to meet Josh Done and get his shirt. Food and drink are included. We're doing giveaways. It's going to be a great time. You can get tickets to that at go p hnx.com or p hnx locker.com. And that's going to be super fun as well. And then we're also doing a draft day live show at the Ainsworth.

We have a meet and greet with Byron Murphy. We've got foods. We got drink. We got giveaways. We got a ton of great things planned for our draft day coverage. You can get RSVP to that by going to our social media accounts as well where the links are. We'd love to see you guys at the. events, PHNX is all about being a family and a community. And so this is how we want to hang out

with you guys, interact with you. And we hope to see you there. I think we're, we have a lot of cool stuff coming up, right guys? Does anyone know if the Ainsworth is dog friendly? Because I just got an email that a son's bandana that I ordered for Newman has arrived. Oh my gosh. And I would love to bring him. Yeah, it's a priority. You asked that about a lot of things too. Is this dog friendly. So I mean, yeah, he's like your son. So I mean, I feel like he should get to come. Yeah. Newman is the cutest dog ever. Everybody in the comments, hi, hi, Charles Woodall Pike. Hello, Christina. It's so great to see you guys. Let's get in to our main topic of the day. Highs and lows of Arizona sports. And oh my God, do we have? What is? Why am I on the low end?

First of all, this is someone pointed that out. I don't like that. If you're on the low end, I'm on the in between. What does that mean? The. And I mean, that doesn't make sense. Just like a me. I'm a me. I'm on the high end because it's my show. Just kidding. It was a strategic placement, Derek.

That's all I'll say about that. Geez, what a crazy week in Arizona sports. I feel like we can't have anything nice or at least normal. How do you guys feel about that? I feel like no matter what there is this, like it needs to be evened out, right? So we had the Diamondbacks finally pick up and start succeeding. and it seemed to cost the sun's Devin Booker's hamstring. I don't know what's going on there.

But like you said, it never seems to be that we can all have nice things all at once. Yeah, we can never be on like too high of a high. Like the Arizona sports gods have to like knock us down a couple of pegs when things are going well. Right? Just like, you know, keep it real.

Don't get too high. Don't get too low. Don't get happy on the farm. Don't, you know, all the things. Like be steady eddy, okay? Like don't get ahead of yourself. Yeah. That is what is going on here and

Arizona. When it comes to the Suns, though, one-in-one to start things off, all of a sudden, I'm hearing conversations about like, oh, well, maybe like my summer's going to open up. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, meaning, like, maybe I, maybe we won't have like the Sun's playing. That is, I know, no, it's crazy. No, just get out now. Just go now. If they're thinking like that, just you can go and go on their vacation town. Taking away. So one-in-one, I thought, that game two was going to end up being this like historic game that we were going to talk about like one of the highlight moments of Devin Booker's career because of the baby fist bump. It became like immediately a viral tweet meme, whatever, whatever you want to call it.

Do we have a video of that by the way? We have to talk about this for a second. The baby fist bump was so iconic. Are you kidding me? Like, come on. Look at that. Are you kidding me right now? It's the greatest thing.

And I thought with the way that Devin Booker was playing, it was his game. I'm like, oh, my God, we're going to be talking about Devin Booker's performance. And then 10 years from now, it's going to be, it was going to become one of those things like, oh, you want to feel old. Look at Devin Booker baby fist bump now. Yeah, he's 27. Tattoos on his face and stuff. He was like going off. Didn't he have like 30 points in the first.

31 points in the first. Yeah, it was his game. And then he. injured himself. And it's, and now that, now that baby's coming under scrutiny is really what's happening. I know, it's the curse of the baby alone. Leave the baby alone. That had to have been like one of the highest highs in the valley, though.

Devin Booker was going off. The sons were rolling in that game. And he slides to the floor and freaking fist bumps a baby. That has to be the most baller move I've ever seen an NBA player do in my life. It was electric. I was there present. And it was incredible the reaction that it got. Did they play it on the jumbo chops?

Well, because we were up in the, you know, upper deck and we didn't see what happened. But like the pop that it got was incredible because people saw it. It might have come up on the on the tight time. I just didn't see it. But like the fact that, you know, you just felt an energy in that building, like you said, that particular night. But man, the pelicans couldn't miss after a certain point. And I mean, no matter, I mean, I know we would have loved to have Booker out there. but that was just a night where those guys were locked in

and you got to tip your cap to them more for the way they perform rather than now looking at the suns like they're falling apart because they lost a game during the playoffs. Well, I think it's more than just like, oh, they lost a game. I think it has a lot to do with one of the biggest reasons why they maybe should have lost game one and then ended up losing game two is because of, you know, know one stat in particular, which is rebounding, which is a pure effort stat.

Yes. It's a pure effort stat. Tierson, lay this stat on us because I almost cried when you said this out. Oh, yeah. I think it was, was it, they were out rebounded 98 to 68. So over the course of those two games, so there is a 30 rebound disparity in those two games, which is a big time disparity. Now, the biggest disparity actually happened in game one,

and they ended up finding a way to win thanks to Chris Paul. But I think after that game, it was like, we can't do this again. I mean, it was pounded into them and into everybody else. Like everything they were talking about was rebounding, rebounding, rebounding, and then they go out and, you know, Devin Booker went off and they everything, but then they fell flat and didn't crash the boards like they needed to. And so when you have, when you take. take a look at a stat like that and you say like, you're able to say like, well, the pelicans just

wanted it more. It's like, are you freaking kidding me? We didn't get to this point for the pelicans to want it more. So I think that was a little frustrating. And I do I think that they're still the best team in the NBA? Absolutely. But we've been saying all along is the only team that can beat them is the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, totally. And so this is a prime example of that. So Devin Booker is going to be out for sure in tonight's game. The general rule of thumb for this sort of, for this strain is, you know, two to three weeks. But Monty Williams doubled down yesterday after I think Woj had reported that it was going

to be like at least or could be, could be, I think was two to three weeks and everyone was running with that. Moni said like, listen, like we specifically said there's no timetable. Yeah. Like we're not putting a timetable on this. It could be sooner. It could like whatever. like there's no timetable. So we'll just have to see with that. But you know, they're a very complete

team. They've got a deep bench. Um, so maybe this will light a little bit of a fire underneath them. And they'll, you know, cruise until he gets back, hopefully. Yeah. Well, that's why I'm so upset with sons fans who are like the world is ending and the sky is falling because I really, like, I understand. I don't want to take away from the fact that like Devin Booker is a huge, huge, huge component of this team. And it's a big loss. Absolutely. But we've got CP3. We've got the deepest bench in the league. We've got the most talented team in the league. There's no reason why they can't step up and compensate for Devin Booker's absence. Am I wrong thinking that?

On paper and skill-wise, yes. But I think Sun's fans have something to lean on when you say like, yeah, skill, like the Pelicans shouldn't be able to match up, even though their head coach is Amani disciple and knows this Sun's team very, very well, was on the coaching staff last year when they made it to the finals. And so there's an X factor in that regard for sure that they bring. but that young Pelicans team on paper should not have the ability to win this series. But if you have, if you sort of can, you know, dig into them a little bit or for some reason, they're not bringing it like they, like, like they have in the past or like whatever and

they're beating themselves, then that I get that aspect of it. Well, since the bubble, this team has won three out of every four games on average, right? So the thing about it is along that path, they've been without those guys. They've been out without key players and they have experiences before. There was a stretch where they were out without several of their stars and it gave some of those bench role players that opportunity to step up and, you know, get time during the regular season for this exact kind of situation. I'm thinking the sons were a little bit shell-shocked by, you know, losing Booker for the game, right? you're just a little emotional, you're a little lost without him and you're worried. You're worried how significant the injury is and how long he's going to be gone for.

I don't even know. Maybe they were a little distracted. I just don't think this team gets worried if they don't have Chris Paul, which they didn't have him for a big chunk down the stretch of the regular season. They have had time without each one of their key. I don't think that they are, they waver at all without any of their star players. I do think maybe it was a little bit of a distraction because of the type of game that he was having and then having to pick up. But I really don't think that that's the case.

What I was going to say, though, is on the flip side, there's a different feeling on the pelicans. You know, they smell the blood in the water. Yeah, they were probably so jazzed up heading into this game. They're probably like, if we can beat them once, we can beat them four more times. If we could beat them on the road once, we can certainly beat them at home.

And I believe there was audio from their coach during the third quarter of game one where, like, they, he was talking about because they went on a really good stretch against the sons that see they can, that they could beat them. You know, he was talking about that belief in themselves that this is a basketball game. Anybody can win this. Like, no matter what the records are at this point, no matter what anything is. So they were, they were ready to go. But I'm hard to believe, I find it hard to believe that they are going to shoot as well as they did. at any game in the rest of the series, let alone in multiple games.

Yeah, absolutely. It was just a, it was a significant night for them. They were on. I was present and I'm going to make sure that I am not at any more games. You're not allowed to go to any more suns game. I don't know what happened,

but I'm just, I don't know if it's me, but I'm taking that, I'm taking that variable out of the equation. I think the other thing too that just like made that whole game so overwhelming is because like we're talking a lot about like highs and lows. And I think we were at the highest of high, watching Devin Booker drop 31 points.

and fist bump a baby. And then we went to... I was out of my mind. I was literally running around my house screaming. I was so jazzed up. And then we went to the lowest of lows when we saw him walking off the court to go to the locker room to get checked out for an injury. And just like the total like emotional like roller coaster we went on in that game was so

hard to like digest. And you're like you literally, I had a moment. I think I had a tweet where I was like, Sons fans don't deserve this. Like we literally can't have anything nice. We have been through years and years and years of misery. degree. And then the one year we're like, this is it, this is our year. We're going to win a championship this year. Something happens like Devin Booker getting hurt. And it's just like, oh, like the high, the difference between the high and the low in that game was so overwhelming. It was bound to happen at

some point. I mean, do you remember? I don't think he, I don't think he ended up, uh, sitting out at all for it. I'm trying to remember, but do you remember when he got his face busted and then yes, the nose broke. Yeah. And the conference finals and they were just so banked up at some point through the force of the playoffs injury to some key player is almost like a guarantee and so if you can i mean i don't know there's definitely different ways to look at it like if they can escape the first round and then devon bookers back and healthy and they don't skip a beat from there then nobody's even really talking about it um you know ever from here on now i just wish that that baby fist bump game would have ended in a a win so that we could look back on it and it would be more of an iconic moment now it's just

sort of like the baby cursed Kevin Booker? Everything's a curse to us. Everything's occurs. The baby cursed Devin Booker. I think Psycho Blue said it. Psycho Blue. Shout out to the name. I said it in the comments, but I think the expectations are different. Not only were they the best team in NBA this year, right?

But it really feels like title or bust. And I think that that's a different level of pressure for this team. I think that they're ready for it. It's just a different level of pressure than they've had at any point, you know, in the playoffs up to this point. Absolutely. I wanted to mention too. So we're discussing our highs and lows, but we're going to have a section of the show where we discuss your highs and lows called the comment section coming up. So if you're watching our show right now on YouTube, comment in the chat, what you're high from this past week in Arizona sports was and the low from what you saw this past week in Arizona sports was. And we will be reading all of your highs and lows out during the comment section. So don't forget to do that because we love to incorporate you in the show. Really quickly before we move on to the Cardinals, obviously, the suns are in New Orleans right now to take on the Pelicans. Cheers to.

And got texted the craziest video I've ever seen in my life. And we have to talk about this because I have mixed emotions about it. Do we have the video of that billboard in New Orleans? So this, something happened when the color when we transferred it onto your screen. Oh, there we got. I don't know. The color's a little odd. But yeah.

So Chris Paul Superfan texted me who I met in the, during the finals last year. Her name's Trinise. And so she actually paid for a billboard that's up in New Orleans right now. It's going to be up through Sunday that says it's been a 17 year journey, can't give up now, beat the Pell's number one super fan, Trinise Kenner. And it says hashtag point God CP3. And she like, I met her last year again at the finals. And I saw her from a distance because she was holding a life size cardboard cut out of Chris Paul. And I was like, oh, she seems fun.

Let me go talk to her. And she was like telling me the story of like how she's always, she's just been a fan of him in his entire career and how she put that life size cardboard cutout on the airplane with her. Oh my. Can you imagine if you get on an airplane and you see Chris Paul on the airplane, but it's a cardboard cutout version of him. More importantly, did she pay for a seat for him. Oh, my God.

Yeah. No, she did not. But she did tell me, I think, last year that she dropped like $60,000 going to playoff games. Oh, my God. Can we roll that video one more time with a billboard? Because this billboard is incredible. First of all, whoever designed it, props to you because it is a beautiful billboard. It's really cool billboard, yeah.

But oh my gosh, I just can't imagine having to pay for that. I mean, I guess good for her because the sons need all the support that they can get right now. And it's over by the arena too, which makes it even better. They're definitely going to be driving by that billboard. I'm sure Chris Powell is. I hope it's like across from the hotel they're staying in. Yeah, that would be amazing. I love to see Suns fans bowling out for their team, though.

So shout out to you for having that billboard up there and supporting the Suns, while they're in New Orleans. Thanks, Tranees. Thanks, Janice. You're awesome. But anyways, like I mentioned, we do have a game three watch party tonight at the Ainsworth. Alan Williams will be there broadcasting with our PHNX Suns team. So come out to the Ainsworth tonight.

You can get there whenever you get off work, hang out with us, watch the game with us. Me, Alan Williams, it's going to be super fun. You can RSVP to that event on our Twitter account at PHNX underscore sports. All right. Let's talk about some Cardinals stuff because this week, was typical, I guess, for drama and things related to Kyler Murray and the Cardinals.

So two former Cardinals, both Patrick Peterson and Chase Edmonds, were on a podcast that's hosted by Patrick Peterson. And they were talking about the Cardinals, Kyler Murray, his situation. And both Patrick Peterson and Chase Edmonds not only said that the Cardinals have a culture issue, but they don't believe that Kyler Murray will finish his career as an Air on a cardinal. Now they didn't directly correlate the two by saying he's not going to stay here because of the culture. They just said, well, because of the way that the NFL works now and trades and how everything happens, they just don't see Kyler Murray finishing his career here.

I think they added to it that he also wants to win and he's not going to wait around. So there was like two parts to it. Like, hey, that's just kind of how the NFL is. Like you don't typically have like the, you know, the guy that's that begins and ends his career in the same spot. But then also, So Kyler wants to win. They have not put in the resources or they're willing to pay to bring in the right guys and develop a Super Bowl winning team. And Kyler Murray is not just going to sit there and wait around for them to do it. Right.

That was their opinion of it. So this clip went like viral as it probably was going to because the comments were very strong and very opinionated. And people started speculating again as to Kyler, his future here in Arizona. And so it got to the point where finally, Kyler Murray said something about it on Twitter, finally said something about it on Twitter after Colin Coward picked it up,

like a bunch of people started running with this story. So the first thing Kyler Murray said was he quote tweeted the podcast saying, I want to win Super Bowls with the Cardinals, AZ is home. So. Love that S on the end of Super Bowls. Yes, plural, meaning he maybe wants to win more than just one Super Bowl here. We all want you to.

But he came out. initially with that statement, kind of just to calm everything down and say, Arizona's home, I want to win a Super Bowl here, Super Bowls here. What do you guys think about that? Do you think that was a smart move for Kyler? Yeah, I mean, I think that this is all a dance to get Kyla Murray as much money as they possibly can get him. But to think that this team isn't 1,000 percent committed to Kyler Murray is crazy.

The room that they sign these guys in, the conference room, has a giant image of Kyler Murray on it. That's not just a picture. It's the entire wall is Kyler Murray, not multiple images of him. One gigantic image of Kyler Murray in their like press conference. Well, I will say they had a picture of Josh Rosen in there too and they took that down very quickly. Don't even say that. But my thing about it though is to think that he is not going to get paid by this team and there's not going to be a settlement of all this is crazy. I think the team knows what they have in him. I think that they are 100% committed to him. And yeah, I mean, sure, he's unhappy.

He's emotional. He's voiced his displeasure about stuff. He has shown his, he doesn't hide it. Like, he doesn't seem like he gives a damn about what people think about his emotions, right? Like, you know, he's been talked about the way he acts on the sidelines and stuff. He's a young guy. It's, you know, there's some maturity there that all of us go through at that age. And I think that there's a lot writing on him in particular, so it gets frustrating at times, right?

Yeah. Especially when he's doing what he perceives as his part by hitting guys in their damn hands and they can't catch the ball, right? So it's like there is stuff like that where you just eventually snap, right? Yeah. I just think that all of this, at least with Kyler Murray and, you know, the stuff that he's been doing, it's causing the speculation. but it's kind of a plan, I feel like. I feel like they want the speculation out there. I feel like they want the Cardinals to feel that pressure.

They want that talk of Kyler potentially moving. English is hard. I can't. Words are hard. But that's an all in an effort to get him as much money as possible. Yeah. Well, then he went on to respond to a couple other people about this drama. He responded to Ian Rappaport's tweet.

Ian Rappaport said, could Arizona Cardinals QB, Kyler Murray be traded. GM Steve Kime during his pre-Joff press conference said zero chance quote. And then Kyler Murray responded 100 with a little 100 emoji. Well, this is all because somebody said that he was going to get traded before the season on, you know, as media, right? Yeah. And it's just an opinion.

It's just speculation. All of it's just based on this situation kind of snowballing and making it look like there's a rift between them. Somebody was just trying to perpetuate something because there's no way in hell. he was being traded when he's under contract. Traded for who? Right. Literally. Traited for who.

Right. Like that was never, ever, ever going to happen. And the fact that anybody was running that with that was like mind boggling to me. Like nobody's that stupid to think that like that would even be a potential like within like the Cardinals organization that would make them better for trading him when they have him under contract for two more years. Now I actually, this might be a little bit of a hot take that.

people, I think the tides have turned a little bit, and now people are saying that, like, we should, the cardinal should have just signed him earlier. But I actually respect the way that Kime has handled things in saying, like, listen, you publicize, like, the fact that these negotiations are going on by your agent, putting out a strongly worded letter, which was bizarre and usually doesn't happen. And by the Twitter stuff and, like, whatever the guy. I mean, he didn't specifically address those things, but he basically said, like, what we've said is the contract will get done when contracts normally get done in the summertime. That's what we said. That's what we're sticking with. We're not going to trade him. Like, but it will get done when it usually gets done.

Like, it should be pretty simple. And I appreciate him not folding because one party was making a bunch of noise. He's basically saying, we're not going to trade you. We'll give you your money when it normally happens. And so he kind of, he stuck with that. He stuck behind Kyler, said there's zero chance that's going to happen. Something along the lines along the way, I think maybe clicked for Kyler. I know that they pulled their offer, whatever the case was. You know, maybe something clicked, though, where Kyler felt like, okay, now I finally need to address people. Yeah. And that's like the other thing, too. It's like, Why did it take this long?

Because fans, like, I think fans got a lot out of that, that original quote tweet. So going back to that original one where he said that he wants to win Super Bowls here, Arizona's home, fans loved that. They're like, thank God. Thank God, Kyler said something in support of wanting to stay here after all this drama. Like, they needed to hear from him. Yeah. So I would say also, why did it take so long? I think that was probably intentional.

But anyway, it was. That was a smart, smart move on his behalf to start responding to some of these things and making the fan base. Because the fan base started to turn a little bit. Yeah. They're just worried. And again, there are some people that are going to be on his side about it and feel like he should be extended and all of that.

And they think conversation about anything other than his production on the field is like garbage. Like, I don't want to hear it. He's a great quarterback. Throw all that other stuff out. But then there's some fans that are like. like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm concerned about this. And by kind of not hearing from him, though,

it allowed fans to sit there and, yeah, be worried about, like, is our quarterback going to leave? Like, does he have what it takes? You know, whatever you want to speculate. But I think just like Kyler Murray, everything surrounding Kyler Murray, especially Kyler Murray's social media, has put poor Cardinals fans on just such a roller coaster again this off season.

You should offer to run for him. Okay, actually, Kyler Murray, if you're watching the show, which I know you're not, hit me up. I will run your social media accounts for you so we can avoid all of this shit in the future. I got you covered. You are way too busy for that. Absolutely not.

You will not address those topics fast. I feel really bad for Cardinals fans because, again, it goes back to the Suns fans, things. Like such an emotional roller coaster of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in this off season, especially when it comes to Kyler Murray's like social media. Obviously what Cherson said about his original quote tweet about saying he wants to say or win Super Bowl's here in Arizona's home, probably put Cardinals fans on a good high, which was awesome to see. He also did actually have one more comment. He commented, he called Colin Coward out,

which I'm so glad he did because Colin Coward sucks. I actually like him. Well, Colin Coward said, Kyler Murray is Aaron Rogers, aloof, trust issues and kind of do their own thing. They lean on their talent. And then Kyler Murray responded and said, run whatever narratives y'all,

run whatever narratives you all want to run with. But questioning my work ethic we're not going for. Stop playing with me, Colin. I still rock with you, but come on. So, I mean, he's sticking up for himself. And I don't know why he all of a sudden decided to be super voiceless on social media and kind of dispel a lot of these rumors. Yeah, but he didn't dispel the character issues. He just, there was a comment in there where he kind of got looped into like a work ethic thing, which I would agree.

He adds, you know, great. I don't think that's in question, but not at all. But it's the fact that if you don't respond, then people continue to run with stuff. And then if you do respond, you tend to look like you're getting defensive. Yeah, but he had no urgency to respond the entire time that Instagram drama was going. going down. He was like, I'm not telling you guys anything about why I took all my calls all the speculation to snowball more, right? So is he learning? Is that what you're saying? I don't know, but maybe in some cases he feels like not responding all the time isn't the best

course of action, right? Sometimes we as fans want to hear from them. We want to see you say you want to be here. Even if something else is completely else going, you know, going on, it makes them look like a dedicated, you know, a supporter of this team and a teammate to everybody. and just a great Arizona Cardinal if he says he wants to be here. I think he does want to be here. I think it's just, again, it's a question of the money, right? And again, that's what some of these athletes are really looking out for in the end is getting paid. It doesn't help that all of these other people in the organization,

players and front office got contract extensions while all of this discussion was going on, even though, again, like you said, it's the timetable. They have things set in the order that they were going to go. They're trying to secure the pieces that are going to help Kyler win around him and make sure that those pieces are here for the long term so that they can be here around Kyler and they can figure out their core that they need to build around. They thought they knew their core and that's one they added guys like JJ Watt and stuff to get them to that top level. And unfortunately, it didn't work out between injuries and everything else that went on. Yeah. Well, speaking of another low, Kyler Murray did not show up to voluntary work.

workouts. I don't know what to make of this because according to Kyler's camp, he's working out and doing training at another facility, which he's allowed to do. They don't have to show up for voluntary workouts, but JJ Watt was there, was Dee Hop there at voluntary workouts? I believe so. Yeah. So, I mean, the leaders, other leaders that are looked up to on the team like JJ are

there at voluntary workouts and Kyler is not. Is he trying to make a statement by not showing up? what do we think about him choosing not to be voluntary workouts? No, I think he just prefers to do his own thing. I think so too. He's very much that kind of guy. He would rather do his own thing, show up when he has to show up. And there's nothing inherently wrong with that. And I could make arguments both ways for it. But I have felt all along that Kyler needs to do everything in his power to sort of change the narrative. And showing up to voluntary workouts, I feel like, should have been one of those things on that checklist where it's like I understand that you like to go do your own thing.

He works out in Texas. He works out with some of his guys, teammates and non-teammates. And I get it. And he's not the only star player that does that on any team. I just think he should have made the effort to show up, especially with the con, with just so much just being said about him and whatever, I thought he should have just shown up. Yeah. Put it to rest.

I think it would have definitely made people feel better, like everybody feel better, if you would have shown up to voluntary workouts because now there's room for speculation. And in a situation that already seems very fragile to me, it doesn't seem like speculation is another thing you want to add to this very delicate situation. So I kind of agree with you. But that's from the fan base and not necessarily the team. Like, I don't think his teammates like anything. No, no, no.

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, yeah. For the people. Right, for the fan base for sure. Yeah, I think both James Connor and JJ Y, which, by the way, it's like, every other leader is there except for, you know, your top guy. But they came out and said, like, we're just working out. Like, we're not.

I think somebody, I think, I don't know, I think there was like a conversation about, like, oh, Kyler's the guy that, like, runs the offense and knows it. It's like they're literally, it's voluntary workouts. They're literally just working out. Yeah. So at the end of the day, see, I could go both ways and devil's advocate for sure. But don't you think being there like builds camaraderie? No, for sure.

They talk. They hang out. Like they're like building like just like a rapport with each other like off of the field that like improves team chemistry. I will say that 100% you're right about that. It's like what we've seen with the sons. Yeah. They have talked about the sons being more than a team and how close they are. Yeah.

We've. I don't think Kyler's ever going to be that guy. But okay, here's what I'm saying though is on the flip side to it. I don't think any of this would matter. if none of the other things were going on. If this was a regular time period and Kyler wasn't under this scrutiny, nobody would,

we wouldn't even be discussing him not coming to voluntary workouts. It wouldn't be a story. But it's made that much more of a story because of this perceived riff between him and the organization that's not really there. It's just been kind of fueled

by removing pictures from Instagram and a letter from his agent that backed up a feeling that they're So hard to read, by the way. Right. Again, if you need help with social media, Kyler, please, please reach out to me. I will help you. It's a lot.

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That's right. They split a series. It's the first series that they didn't lose this year so far with the Nationals. They had a great game. Seth Beer had a phenomenal performance. performance as kind of I've come to expect from Seth Beer, but the bats, they are alive. The Diamondbacks are finally generating some offense, which is great to see because they were last in the league, which they still might be, but at least they're like closing the deficit a little

bit. They're like, they're like 0.01 batting average points away from being not the worst team. They were last in the league in runs on base percentage and batting average. So, you know, it's it's not started great in terms of the offense, but they're. closing the gap. Things are getting a little bit better offense-wise. There were way too many times when the Diamondbacks gave up double-digit runs and to see them put up double-digit runs on another team was like therapeutic. Well, and see, here's the thing about that with the Diamondbacks this season is their pitching has been outstanding. They're starting pitching specifically. We talked about on the show, but what's odd is they actually have one of the best ERAs in baseball. And it's actually been helped by the fact that

the defense behind them has been so bad because the defense has been taking the credit as an error for the run instead of it being charged to the pitcher like it typically would, where in some cases it was maybe questionable if they would have gotten there or not, but it's helped those runs. That is an interesting way to look at it. Well, it's what it is, is it shows that even though the pitching is outstanding numbers-wise, as you say, that's another high for Zadobox. It's not as good, but it's still been very good. The starting pitching has kept them in every game.

Yeah. The big difference here was that their offense. just from start to beginning for guys not named beer was atrocious. And now what we are seeing out of them is we saw the big, like, the damn break, you know, and we saw them have that big offensive game against somebody. Looking at like Major League Baseball, I was literally like Squidward watching, you know, SpongeBob and Patrick outside that meme having a good time because every team in the league seemed to at least have one game in the first week and a half of,

that explosive offensive output where they put up five, six, seven, eight runs. You know, the Diamondbacks, we rode that high from opening day of Seth Beer with the walkoff and everything was so great. And then it was just such a hard road there for that first week offensively watching this team be so bad when the pitching was technically keeping them in a lot of these games. I do not mean to derail this thing, but I just thought of something that I've been meaning to ask you for a couple weeks. Oh, no. Did you actually get kissed by a random girl after that first? Yeah, he actually did. I saw it happening.

I was there. I really did. She smooched him on the cheek. Chicks did me, what can I say? That really happened. Yeah. There was a moment where honestly I turned to my right and there were, wait, it was my left and there was just literally a pair of lips.

And you linked in like that was such a normal thing. What am I supposed to do not lean in for that? I probably would have screamed or something if I did. I was like, oh my God. Yeah, well. It was awesome. Anyway, I just have been, I keep forgetting to ask you. Sly in the comments saying,

hooray, mediocrity. Sly, after the year we had last year with the Diamondbacks. That is a win. That is a huge win compared to last year. But I do want to say one of the highs that we definitely have to talk about with the Diamondbacks because it is the highest of highs is their pitching staff because their pitching staff is incredible.

They've pitched so, so, so, so, so well for the first part of the season that it might actually be a possibility that they have the best starting rotation in baseball and the worst offense in baseball at the same time. At least numbers-wise, it's definitely up there and down there for both of those things. Merrill Kelly and Madison Bumgardner have been just great. And Zach Gallen, again, had his first start. He looked very good.

He hasn't had a chance to have a full outing yet, but he's still, I mean, he still looked sharp. He looked sharp in spring training. He's had weird injuries. He had bursitis in his shoulder, which is just kind of like a thing that doesn't seem like it's going to go away, but he's been able to deal with, you know, any kind of discomfort he had. He cut his thumb on a circuit box, which again, as Michaela has said, he needs to be wearing ovens. Bubble wrap that man. Bubble wrap an air of it's like, what you do and doing your own electrical work or sprinkler.

Call somebody. You're a majorly baseball player. You can pay to have somebody do your electrical work. She offered to do, like, I'm not good at that kind of stuff, but I'll come do it for you is my point. But the, you know, again, the pitching staff has just been incredible. The Diamondbacks, you kind of knew that they're hitting couldn't be this bad. but Jesse kind of nailed it with an article that he wrote over at go phtnx.com about, you know, patience versus passivity.

And there were some great examples of these guys literally looking like they wanted to walk more at the plate than they wanted to hit the ball. And that kind of changed in the series with the Nationals. We hoped we would see that. If we didn't see that against Nationals, it was going to be very worrisome. I think the lowest of lows was that double header where they just struggled to score. They scored one run in 18 innings of baseball in a double header. And it looked like, you know, this team was just going to be abysmal. And to have that next game where they scored 11 runs, just be a cathartic, you know, kind of situation where it felt like, oh, my God, you guys can do this.

You can score. Yeah. And you can score in bunches like you did in this game. Carried over a bit to the next game where they won that one as well. They won two in a row. So it just, it feels like there's some hope there. This team has been able to put some stuff together all season long that made you kind of, you know, have a little bit of hope in this, you know,

in this team and that they can be somewhat competitive. Going back to the mediocrity thing, honestly, 500 for this team is a win after. Would you be happy with that, Cherson? Meteorocity, if they finish the season close to 500? I had absolutely no expectations beyond mediocrity for this team, so absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a good place to be. Do you, I mean, moving forward, like the- You say that with such disdain.

I'm just like, I am just putting it out there. Like, there's no sugar-coting it. Like, that is just the truth. The bats do need to wake up, though. Like, they need to hit balls. They need to put balls in play. Most importantly, they need to do it for more than just two games in a row. Yeah.

I think the nationals, they're not a very good baseball team. So that's great that that happened. But again, to have that hope I'm talking about, you want to see it now carry over to a very tough met series that they have coming up. Then they have the Dodgers after that. So it's two of the better teams in baseball, if not the best teams in the national league right now. I just don't expect them to contend. Well, no, nobody expects them to contend. That's not the thing.

What I'm saying is just contend with like any of the top. Like I'm not looking at it. say like, oh, they really need to win these games. Like they are, I don't have that expectation. No, but what you want to see is a good competitive showing. What I see now is inconsistency. And I, that is what I felt like we were going to get. We were going to get like a big game here and there.

You know, get a win here or there. Or maybe we'll string together too. But like the consistency that you're talking about, I don't, I don't have that expectation. Well, that's the difference between winning baseball teams and teams that are in position the Diamondbacks are in, right? It feels like they should be winless with the way that this season has gone already. So, you know, with the way that their record is gone.

But you're right. Like going up against the Mets and the Dodgers, you can't, you can't really hang your happiness on whether they win those series. You really have to just, you got to look for a good competitive showing and see them not get pummeled by these teams, especially the Dodgers. You know, that's a team that you don't really expect them to win a series and compete. But, man, if they, if they do, that's incredible. if they can at least eke out one, go one for two in that series, that's pretty good.

The most important thing for me, though, is to see them have offense, to see them be able to sustain the ability to hit the ball that they, like, as a team couldn't do there for two weeks. Yeah, well, the Diamondbacks pitching is definitely a high. The Diamondbacks offense is still definitely a low. Before we move on to the coyotes, I got to tell you guys about our presenting sponsor, the Drop King Sportsbook app. Draft Kings, the NBA playoffs are here, which means next level basketball.

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cheers in holy cow do we have to talk about the coyotes season ticket costs because geez the coyotes released their price for their season tickets yesterday, two days ago, and I wanted to cry. I could not believe what I was seeing before my eyes. Cherson, do you have a breakdown for us? Yeah. And now I'm looking too. They might have, it might have been, we might have just been late to the party. I'm not sure when they released it.

It was sometime within the last, like, week. But, like, I'm also, like, really bad at deciphering. I guess, I guess how you would read it is, like, for full season. It's as high as. $15,000 and as low as 3649. Almost $4,000 for the lowest season ticket, full season option. I don't know. And you guys, if you're in the comments, you can help me out here because I just don't maybe

know the most about the normal cost of season tickets for coyotes game. I'm not in a position to ever buy season tickets to anything. Right. Which is why I don't know because I've never bought season tickets. So if you have season tickets to the coyotes in the comments right now, please let us know if this is like kind of like normal for you. But when I saw a $15,000 price tag for a full season for the coyotes in a collegiate arena, I almost passed out.

I think that's ridiculous. I'm sorry. Like it's not the same experience as like a normal NHL arena. Like what in the world? Why are the coyotes charging 15 grand for a full season in a collegiate arena? Like am I off base here? You are because it's going to be the hottest ticket in hockey. That's why.

That's what they're banking on. Because you, here's what you're thinking is the coyotes aren't very good. They're not very popular. How is this so expensive? What you're not thinking about is every time the coyotes play a game, they're playing an opposing team. And the opposing team plays in a reasonably sized arena where normal fans have to sit distances away from their favorite sport. Yeah, okay, but I call bullshit on that. You'll never be able.

No, you'll never be able to see a hockey game like this. coyote season tickets are there for the coyotes. They're coyotes. It actually looks like this is a slightly above like the average price. This is a slightly above average for season tickets. So it's not like it's that far off. We're upper level season ticket holders and they are priced out, but we expected it. Look, I thought that maybe they were going to be trying to make up some revenue from the COVID season, not having people in seats, whatever.

But I seriously, like, I think it's ridiculous asking coyotes fans to pay $15,000. Well, wait, Christina, so you're priced out now. So is that upset you? So we're upper level season ticket. Am I reading this right? Season ticket holders and now we're priced out, but we expected it. So now they can't have be season ticket holders in Tempe? Like, how do you feel about that?

To me, that's crazy. Like, absolutely insane. Like, I think, I understand, like, it's a small arena. It's an intimate thing. Like, there's got, you're going to see, like, like, all the stars on the ice, like, you know, I'm trying to, why can I think of any who plays hockey right now? I'm trying to. Crosby and

Austin Matthews. Oh my God. I literally just had the biggest brain brain aneurism of my life. I know hockey stars. OVee. Jeez, holy cow. Thank Michaela.

What was that one guy? Okay, I totally get that right. Like, I understand that you'll be up close and personal. But like, I think that the season ticket holders are for coyotes fans. And the product on the ice is going to suck, right? Like, we're expecting another year, very similar to this year because they're in rebuild mode. They're waiting for all these draft picks to come up through the system and be good.

like next year they're going to suck again. Like, are you seriously asking people to pay $15,000 to watch you win 15 games in a season? I mean, I don't know how this stuff works, but I feel like you're assuming that a lot of those people are coyotes fans and not some sort of ticket broker that's getting a season ticket so that they can sell them to other people, right? These tickets, again, especially for opposing fans, are going to be worth so much money. It's going to be incredible. It's going to be a draw. people that can get tickets to go to games at that venue are going to fly here from different cities

and stay here to go to the game. I think it's going to be one way or the other. I think it's going to be like what you're saying or it's going to be hyped up for the first, I don't know, first few games, first month, whatever you want to call it, of playing there and then all of a sudden it's going to fall flat and like, well, it can.

I think it has the potential to, I think either way, the way that it starts out like the hype surrounding being at games will start out being that way for sure. It's either going to continue that. ride or it's going to go the exact opposite direction and it's going to be an empty college arena now. Let me say this. The tickets, the price you said was $14,000, right? And there are 81 or 41 home games for a team, right? That cost per ticket is $341 and $46. Do you know how much they're going to be able to sell those for $1,000?

Easy, out the door all the time. I'm just saying if you're a season ticket holder for even those most expensive seats. Okay, so now we're going to get season ticket holders that are going to buy the season ticket so that they can sell it to the opposing teams fans for a bad team yes yes yes yes I'm sorry I run into this all the time when I want to go to events and there are no tickets available but there are 5,000 tickets available somehow through a ticket broker. Well the team needs to make money so however you're going to make your money I suppose because the coyotes are horrible but they have the best fan base. They do the people who support the coyotes are the most passionate people about their team that I've ever met. And now they have people like Christina who have to wait for them to get a new arena

so that they can be season ticket holders again to go to games, even though they have ride or died for this team. They put their necks out for this team all the time. They support this team with the highs, with the lows. It doesn't matter. They watch them be garbage for this past year. And now they won't get to go to games next year. Like that to be to me, to be Also, Christina's handling it well. She seems to, I'm like, you should be pissed. Christina, I would be on the phone. She'd be like, you guys suck.

That's what I'm saying, though, is like she understands the situation. And honestly, I bet a lot of people in the East Valley are willing to go through these three years for this team to be closer to them. They are sick of going out to Glendale. And 75% plus of the season ticket holders for this team are based in the East Valley. They live in the East Valley. They move to Glendale in general was the biggest mistake. any organization in this valley has made. Right, but pricing out the people who support your team is not.

They're not there. The seats aren't there. Who is Christina? Who is Christina? She is a priced out fan. But the point that she's made, the point is that the arena is smaller. I don't. She's like, guys, I'm fine.

Really, I'm fine. Sorry, Christina. But my point is, is that it's not like the arena is the same size and they just priced her out. It's that size. It's the thing that they have to do for the time being until the new arena is completed and they have a reasonably size arena. I mean, if you think about it from a business standpoint, it probably needed to be done,

right? Like you have to make an X amount of money and the way to do that if you don't have as many seats that you can sell is to up the prices for the seats that you do have. So from a business standpoint, I get that. It's just unfortunate that they're in this position because it's not like just this move. It's like the grand scheme of like how we got here and this and that. Nobody needs to rehash any of that. Except we will.

Except I will. Yes, March 4th, I believe. I will have a three-part series that is going to launch all, May 4th. Yeah, March 4th. That did not launch yet. It's a long time from now. May 4th went into all of the history, all of the history, starting in Winnipeg to now. And it's insane.

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my high from this week too. Without a doubt. And then his low was but getting injured while getting posturized. I know. Yeah, that was not great. Those are pretty solid highs and lows, actually. I think I agree. Those might be mine too.

There's nothing more iconic than fist bumping a baby. And then how you go from such a high moment to such a low of getting injured, it sucks. Babies are awesome. But babies are awesome. Yep, totally agree. Babes and dogs. Ernesto. Hi, Ernesto.

saying his high was CP3 scoring 30 in game one yeah CP3 totally popped off lowest point was the defense breakdown in game two for the suns yeah the defense looked a little bleh I was gonna ask that overall effort yeah I was there

and I couldn't you know like sometimes you can't really judge as well when you're there but it like it looked like at times they were defending well and they were just making shots right in their face but I've seen I've seen people say that their defense wasn't, they weren't rotating and doing the things they normally do. So, yeah, it was disappointing. Yep.

My girl, Jazeal, hi, Queen Jazal. She said, my hi is Kyler's teammates were posting his tweet on Insta to just show that they were behind him. And the low, of course, was Booker injury. I kind of, I didn't, I missed the teammates reposting Kyler. So I'll have to go check that out. Yeah. And like I said, you know, his teammates do seem to have his back. And so for as much as, you know, the fans hate to see some of this stuff, it doesn't seem like he's creating necessarily a rift in the locker room by any means. I think they understand, you know, I think Kyler is somebody that you have to sort of understand who he is. Yeah, right? And he's not, he's not what everybody necessarily wants him to be from the out, from the outsider's perspective. But he goes about things with the mindset of he wants to win. He'll do whatever it takes to win. And, you know, his.

teammates want to win too. So there you go. Sometimes it's as simple as that. It's nice to see him getting supported. Yeah. You know what I mean? Are you okay? Are you okay?

No, I'm, uh, I'm, coughing. Are you dying? No, I'm coughing. I'm coughing. I'm fine. I turned over. Derek is like, jeers and he's like,

jeered on his eyes on. Derek. It's like, I'm so sad. I'm so sad. I'm so sad. See him support. Get supported.

Yeah. Uh, Ramone had a comment for his high. Hi was the Phoenix rising beating New Mexico in the US. Oh, Open Cup play, woo, go Rising. It was New Mexico rivalry week this past week and the Rising put them

in their place. So the lowest bookers injury. Yeah, that was really, oh God, that doesn't get any worse than that. Do we have any more highs and lows in those comments? I can tell. If you want to commenter as well, we're still here, go for it. But I think my high was actually getting

that text from Trenice that there's a billboard up in New Orleans right now next to the arena. Like, I'm so stoked for tonight's game. Do we have Tiersson's high graphic? I love these graphics more than life itself. Okay, Tiersson, bring it down for us. What were your highs and lows? I realized that if you told me that this was happening previously,

I'm sorry I wasn't listening. Cool, I've got my own graphic. Awesome. My high is Trinise, Chris Paul Superfan, sending me in her billboard that she purchased. That's near the arena in New Orleans. It's going to be there all weekend, supporting Chris Paul.

It was great to hear from her again. because the last time was, you know, the finals of last year. And it just felt like, man, we're back. Like, we're not back to the finals, but like, we're in this thing again. And so stoked for the fan base and for game three. I want to put game two in the freaking past and never just going to forget about it. Never happened. It never happened.

Forget about it. Um, my low, obviously. I just think, I just think this every second of after the baby fist bump in the sun's game, everything that happened after that was my, And who's my low just as a whole? Yeah. If that can be a low, that time frame right there, like, that's my low. Derek, break it down for us.

I was going to say it's high after that baby, that baby. What are your highs and lows for the week? My highs comes from OG's gummies this week is where that comes from. You're actually high. No, my highs come from definitely the Arizona Diamondbacks putting out 11 runs in a game after we've seen them struggle so much all week long, all season long so far. I mean, even in the wins, they weren't putting up very many runs. and you just saw this team struggle from, you know, top to bottom. That was the biggest problem.

Like, you had some good moments from Seth Beer. You had some great moments from the pitching staff. But, you know, again, to see that cathartic breakout of the 11 runs, it just felt good. And it felt like it might carry over for this team just confidence. You know, like you start believing you can't hit a baseball after you have such a struggle doing it. You know, I can only imagine what's going on for Carson. Kelly right now with how terrible his season has started, right? But I'm sure at one point he'll break out and he'll be back to hitting near what his

average is and we'll forget this terrible start. But hopefully the entire offense can do that. My low definitely was Booker's injury. There's no lower point this season or this week than that. Yeah, definitely. I think mine for highs and lows, I think my high was I hate children, if you don't know that. I generally hate kids.

I don't. I'm sorry. I'm not a kid person. I hate kids. I hate babies. She also hates goats. I hate, okay. Michaela doesn't hate babies.

No, I genuinely do. No, Michaela, I'm helping you. I'm helping you right now. Michaela doesn't hate babies. Wink, wink, wink. Mikaela does not. She just doesn't want to have any of her own, okay? I don't want to have kids in my own.

We're learning so much about each other today. Okay, so I hate children. I don't want kids of my own. But the son's baby. Fist bumping Booker made me hate kids a little bit less. Oh, my God. I do. That baby is awesome.

If I ever had kids, I would want a kid like that. Absolutely not. If I did have a kid, that would be my kid. I would be the person sitting courtside with a kid and offering them to be to fist bump a professional athlete. That would be my child. So shout out to the Booker baby for making me hate kids a little bit less. You are so great. Love's murder.

Oh, my God. I hate that. No, turn it off. What is that? My low for the week is definitely the Booker injury. I had the most heart-crushing. Okay, we got to turn that off. I'm going to leave this room.

You're triggering me. Cota kid in the commentation. I hate my own kids. Yes. Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes. Children are the worst. So I'm glad that I'm not alone on that.

And my low from the week was the Booker injury. I was, absolutely crushed. My heart kind of died in that moment. Charles Woodhull Pike saying his high was the D-Bats Bats coming alive. He agrees with Derek on that. Yay, the bats are alive. His low was the D-backs, sorry, the Booker injury and the Yotes entire season. That's a big low. I definitely agree with you there. Charles Wittl Pike. That's Max's Joker origin story. Yeah, you guys just set me off like, something in me just like, I just like that's information that you hate babies. I hate like you guys literally just like broke something inside of me and I'm ready to go in like a murder spray.

I'm just kidding. I hate, oh my God, I hate them so much. I hate kids. Oh my God. All right. Well, I think we should end on that. Christina was in our comments though a little bit earlier saying that she's going to the coyotes game tonight and she is going to be rocking herself as by a shirt. Shout out to you, Christina for rep in the Ph.

and X family. We got actually a ton of cool shirts. We got a whole lineup. of sun shirts. I think we also have a graphic for that too. I'm wearing one of our sun shirts right now. Go over to the PHNX Locker.com and pick up some swag. We've got the coolest sun shirts in the valley. Rep your team in the playoffs with pride with one of our sun shirts. You can head over to go to the PHNX locker.com to pick those up. I think they're so sweet. I'm wearing the old vintage sun's PHN logo shirt, which is one of my favorites. This is our Booker's sunset shirt. So we got a lot of

great options. While you're over there, become a member of PHNX. You can sign up for your first month for just 50 cents or you can sign up to be an annual member and get a free shirt. So the one that I'm wearing, any of the ones behind me, any of the ones you saw in that graphic, those are all options for you to pick up if you sign up for an annual membership. If you are a member, you get access to all of our written content. Derek was talking about Jesse's article that you can only read if you are a member of PHNX. We have a bunch of video stuff that's exclusive. You can join our members, only Discord and talk with all of us like 24-7. We're always in the Discord hanging out with you guys.

And you also get access to our events first. We always let you guys know when we're having events coming up so you can get your tickets before we open them up to the general public. So definitely become a member of the PHNX family. We're like a family here, right guys? I like to have a good time. I like to hang out. Like my sister.

I have no choice but to say yes. You're like my sister. Except we don't have children. We're allowed. We don't allow kids here at PHNX because I will kill them. Just kidding. Oh, my God. I'm out of here.

That's it. I think we need to cut it off. Cut it off now. Yes. Thank you guys so much for joining us on this episode of the Phoenix Sports podcast. We will see you next week. You all are awesome. Thanks for hanging out with us.

You guys are the best.