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Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

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I'm forty. Go ahead, make
my day every single week. I

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put my freaking heart and soul into
this. I don't go out there and

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laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's
funny to me. I don't wanna go

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out there and get embarrassed on Monday
night football. For everybody, I think

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this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from

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yesterday. Still the same person I
was yesterday, and I got the same

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thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You

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play to win the game. You
don't play to just play it. That's

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a great thing about sports. You
play to win. I don't care if

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you don't have any wins. You
go play to win. You start telling

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me it doesn't matter to retire,
get out for the matters. I wonder

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how many people when they listen to
that open recognize the voices Mike Gundy Yoklahoma

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State University, Derek Anderson then of
theear A Cardinals, and Marshawn Lynch.

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Of course, in between the movie
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You made it, man, you
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Way to go, Happy for you, Happy for us too. Ben

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This is Exes and Bros. We're with

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you from six until nine Monday through
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Colton Pouncy. We talked to yesterday
he of the athletic covers the Lions.

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Really good conversation in the eight o'clock
hour. We will replay that at

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the bottom of this hour in case
you didn't have a chance to listen to

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it at all. Tigers had the
day off yesterday. They are in Arizona

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for the first of a three game
series in the first of a six game

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road trip starting tonight. Trek Scoob
gets the call. Then it'll be Jack

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Flaherty, then Matt Manning. In
the series, Detroit has dropped four straight

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series. They have dropped seven of
ten games. Overall. The Diamondbacks are

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two games under five hundred, but
they have won seven of their last ten

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coming in. These are the games
where you look for your ace, right,

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What does it mean to be an
ace? Aces are guys like Justin

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Ferlander, Jack Morris, Denny McClain, slash Mickey Lolich. Those are the

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aces in Tiger's history, Hal Newhouser, let's not go back too far,

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right, I don't want to spoil
it too much, but those are the

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aces. The aces are the guys
who are supposed to stop streaks. Trek

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Skugbel has become that for Tigers fans, and justifiably so. He's that good.

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Not sure I trust anybody else on
this starting staff to do what we

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think is Trek Scubel will do tonight, or that we're asking him to do

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tonight. He is a guy who
I think most Tigers fans completely trust.

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Stop me if I'm wrong there,
but I think when hea'ts on the mound,

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Tiger's fans look at it and say, we're winning tonight, or we've

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got a really good chance at winning
tonight. But here's the thing with most

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of your starters, now that Kentomaieta
is on the shelf, with most of

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these starters, if not all,
shouldn't you feel that way after the way

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they have pitched so far? I
would guess that's not where your trust is

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necessarily misplaced. Your your trust is
valid there. The trust in the offense

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is where you might get misplaced.
And we've gone over that time and time

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again. What you have to wonder
is, at what point in a baseball

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season. I don't think it's yet, but we're getting precariously close. At

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what point during the season does the
front office go it ain't working, time

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to make a move and do it
quickly. As you look at what teams

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are doing now, neither you nor
I expected the Tigers to do with the

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Phillies have done. For example,
Phillies have thirty one wins in the National

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League, most of anybody. They
lost yesterday to the Mets in eleven innings.

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I'm not sure you expected them to
be where the Yankees are. Yankees

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have thirty wins after shutting out Minnesota
again last night or yesterday five nothing Clark

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Schmidt for crying out loud of all
people, a career high eight shutout innings,

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eight strikeouts, no walks. But
they got some clutch hits. Volpie

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with a home run, Taurus with
an RBI doubled the left center field.

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You can look at the box score. For the rest line is they got

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their thirtieth win last night. They
have proven so far that they are the

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best team in the American League.
Baltimore's right there with them. Cleveland win

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wise, is right there with them. But I'm not buying into Cleveland just

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yet, which is kind of unfortunate
and it's really not fair, but that's

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just how I feel right now.
Cleveland has earned your respect because of what

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they've done. You've got fifteen roadkills
so far this year. That's impressive.

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Only the Yankees have more in the
American League and in Baseball because the Phillies

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have fifteen roadkills and that is tied
with Cleveland. I don't think you expected

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the Tigers to do with the Dodgers
are doing. But you know what,

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I don't think it's far fetched to
have believed what Milwaukee has done that Detroit

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could not have done the same thing. Minnesota at twenty four nineteen wouldn't have

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been out of reach, would it. I don't think. So. They're

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below five hundred, you know that, and it's frustrating as hell. So

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they get Arizona tonight. Aj Hinch
has made a statement about a player that

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has become toxic. In fact,
I would argue I don't think I don't

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think he can get it back with
Tigers fans. So we'll talk about that

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coming up. Meanwhile, last night
in hockey, the Rangers beat Carolina five

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to three. They came from three
to one down in the third period to

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eliminate the Hurricanes in six games.
Has he got a chance to watch any

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of that? It's a really good
game, Chris. He's the guy who

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led them back. The assistant captain
scored the natural hat trick in the period

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to lead New York into the Eastern
Conference Finals. Crid joins two other Ranger

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greats as the only Rangers to score
three goals in a period in a playoff

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game? Who are they? Mark
Messier the Guarantee Game nineteen ninety four against

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New Jersey and Wayne Gretzky three years
later. Speaking of Gretzky and Messier,

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Edmonton, where they won? Did
they win three cups or four? Four?

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Loses the lead? In Vancouver they
were up twice and they fell three

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to two to the Caducks. So
Vancouver now leads three games to two.

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One game. In the NBA last
night, Minnesota used a twenty to nothing

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first half run and went on to
blow out Denver one fifteen to seventy.

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I know you're shaking your head,
going, how in the hell did that

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happen? Seriously, you're going,
wait, this is the defending world champions.

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Anthony Edwards scored twenty seven to lead
the Wolves, most of that late.

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The Nuggets shoot just thirty percent.
It shows you that even the best

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of the best, and until somebody
knocks them off, they are the best.

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It shows you that they can have
all kinds of issues at least on

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any given The bigger the night,
usually the better the team's play. Who

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are expected to be that challenging championship
contender. Nikola Jokic had twenty two in

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the lost nine rebounds. I went
nine of nineteen from the floor. They

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rested him to a certain extent.
He did play thirty six minutes because Minnesota

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had pulled away so comfortably, especially
in the fourth where the Timberwolves outscored him

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twenty nine to nine. So there's
your headlines right there. Jared Goff spoke

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to the media yesterday. We'll talk
about that coming up, but we want

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to get to what aj Hinch said
about one specific player that I think has

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a lot of Tigers fans shaking their
head. We'll talk about that when we

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come back on Excess and Bros.
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How do you guys wash? You
know, just kind of wash a

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game like this away when you know
just kind of nothing goes right for you

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and everything goes right for them.
I think we shouldn't. I think we

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need to sink in like it's a
great loss. They beat us, they

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destroy us, and we should learn
it. And you need to keep the

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respect, you know, when they
they came out and actually we had it

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like nine two Exclora right, fun
didn't look good for them in that period,

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you know, but since then it
was it was a one team show.

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So I'm gonna I'm gonna take this
as a great loss. Well and

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Nicole that and that's Nikola Jokic.
I'm gonna take it as a great loss.

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Yeah, yeah, that's really the
only way you can take it.

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Welcome back Exces and Bros. Monday
through Friday six until nine. Jokic was

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pretty darn good, but it was
much too little, too late. One

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fifteen seventy, Minnesota blows up Denver. I think that's the hard part for

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fans. I know sometimes it is
for me to recognize the other teams,

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I don't want to say greatness,
to recognize what they can do, what

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they are capable love, and that
they could actually do it against your team

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is pretty hard because we all like
to think realistically, Now, if you're

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a really good team, we like
to think that our team is the best.

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Our team is the one that should
be doing what the other team is

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doing to it, especially if they
wont a champion. What's that phrase,

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never underestimate the heart of a champion. Well, Denver was down to nothing

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in the series Minnesota, or I
should say, yeah, Denver is down

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to nothing in the series and the
Nuggets respond with three consecutive wins, and

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then what do you do. You're
like, this Minnesota team, look,

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you got to give them some love. They won fifty six games. Give

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them some love. You know,
damn well, they're not going quietly either

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way, whether it be Denver winning
the series or Minnesota winning the series.

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A good team's coming out right,
sure. Still to be embarrassed by forty

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five is ridiculous. I mean,
Minnesota Leby has meant is fifty in that

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one. Anyway. I know you
don't want to talk Denver Nuggets in Minnesota

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Timberwolves. I don't blame you.
That's not something we're going to talk about.

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Just a quick aside there, aj
Hinch. With the Tigers dropping below

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five hundo for the first time this
year, there are questions from Tigers fans,

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and good questions, understandable, realistic, fair questions. How do you

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fix the offense? Number one?
That's your big picture, right. It

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shouldn't be on one specific player because
nobody knows is carrying this offense. There's

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not one player who you're looking at
and suggesting he's fine, not one,

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And I don't even know if you
can do that with any team in Major

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League Baseball. But there are certain
guys you don't worry about. Is that

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fair? I don't think there's any
but Sho hal Tani went over to last

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night. I don't think anybody in
Dodgerland is worried about Shoeo Tani. I'm

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not sure people in Philadelphia are sitting
here going. I'm not sure what Trey

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Turner has given us this year.
Not a big fan Dodgers and Mookie Betts,

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same thing. Stephen Kwan, even
though he's hurt in Cleveland. Trust

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him at the top of the line
You damn right, you trust him at

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the top of the lineup. Jeremy
Paniam, Arcelo Zunim. Maybe it's because

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there is a bit of a track
record there, but you use your eyes,

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you recognize Edlie Rushman's is a really
good player. He's fine. Baltimorioals

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fans are going, He's fine.
Jose l two Bay has done it for

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a long long time in his career. He's doing it again this year.

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He's fine. It's interesting and it's
easy to look back on this. It's

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really simple for me to play armchair
quarterback and you do the same. But

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it's interesting that the Tigers needs have
been shortstop in third base the left side

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of the infield, right. I
mean, they're still looking for those guys.

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They don't have an everyday third base
and otherwise they wouldn't sign Jill or

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Shecheliff. For crying out loud,
They've overpaid for their shortstop who has given

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them nothing. Can we come to
an agreement on that? Good? Okay?

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East Soak Parades, who was traded
to Tampa for Austin Meadows, which

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is one of the worst trades,
not just in Tiger's history, but in

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Detroit sports history. Essak Parades is
hitting over three hundred in Tampa and is

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an everyday player there. He's got
eight home runs, so there's pop there.

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He gets on base, he hits
for average. He's not going to

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win a Gold Glove, but he's
not going to kick the ball around either.

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Willie Adamas was in this team system. It's a while back now,

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traded for David Price. I get
it. I'm not saying it's the wrong

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move, but you did have a
guy and people weren't recognizing it when the

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trade for Austin Meadows to Place a
few years back. I can tell you

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I was thrilled. Honestly, I
can admit that I'm wrong. I was

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thrilled. You got a guy who
hits over three hundred, a guy who

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drives in over one hundred runs,
and a guy who has the power to

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give you thirty bombs. He was
an All Star again, not a gold

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Glove, but he's not jose Canseco
on the fl the other So that's pretty

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fired up. But I don't have
all the inside information. See, when

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you talk to teams, and I've
said this for my entire career, there

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are certain things we don't deserve to
know. I'm not going to pry into

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certain situations with team management. So
I get it they feel like I should

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be at arm's length, and other
reporters and members of the media too.

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Okay, if I give you that
respect, then you have to be willing

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to accept the arrow slung your way
and the perception slash reality slash opinion of

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those members of the media saying you
did not do your homework. Someone failed

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miserably because you gave up a guy
who you knew could hit how well we

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weren't sure it's not like he was
tearing the cover out the ball with Detroit,

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but he wasn't. It's a very
small sample, says, don't tell

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me that you really can't judge a
player until he gets fifteen hundred at bats.

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That's what we hear all the time
with offensive players. What's the number

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of at bats somebody needs, I
would say somewhere in the neighborhood at fifteen

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hundred in their career before you judge
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one hundred and seventy two at bats
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to the conclusion because he goes to
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he may have struggled his first year, not with power, he had twenty

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bombs. He had thirty one homers
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and drove in ninety eight. These
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this year he's off to a great
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com. You know, I know
you later age it handle most of this,

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But what was the most important thing
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process to get this still done?
It was mostly security. I think,

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you know, you can go back
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and that wasn't really the thing that
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with. It was the security and
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all that stuff. Knowing that all
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and then you know, knowing that
I can now put that behind me and

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be excited about what's to come.
Jared Goff talking to the media the other

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day, good question by Justin Rogers
and Detroit Doude. What was the most

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important thing? And I think a
lot of people might be really surprised to

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find out about the no trade.
The security he's got, the financial security.

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I mean, it's a four year, two hundred and twelve million dollars

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deal, It's a seventy three million
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in NFL history. He's the second
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but player per year, behind Joe
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look, I think there's a there's
a misconception by many that free agents

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don't want to come here, athletes
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here, I mean Detroit, which
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of Michigan. I think that's bull
crap. First of all, they're going

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to go to where the money is. We know that, and a chance

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to win all at once. But
I would tell you, in my conversations

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with most not all, because not
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But the conversation with most professional athletes
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They like it here a lot.
They like the people, they like the

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area, and they like the fact
that people care. So I think there's

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a little bit of a sorry free
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You're going to have to overpay them. And then they give the example of

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Ivon Pudge Rodriguez. There's plenty of
athletes who have come here, probably with

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the mindset of oh boy, I
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get here and they're like, hey
man, this is really cool. I

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was only here as a visiting player. I like it a lot more.

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I had a player for the Lions
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is while he was getting a tour
of the facility and the stadium, the

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organization took his wife to various places
in Metro Detroit, including a very high

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end mall. They returned to Alan
Park and the practice facility and she said,

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sign here, this place is great. It's very comfortable. He did,

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and he hasn't left. That's not
the experience for everybody. I'm not

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suggesting it is. I'm just letting
you know, it says something. I

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think it says something about Jared Goff. It says something about the NFL,

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It says something about the Detroit Lions. That says something about you and the

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state of Michigan. That Jared Goff, who once was a Ram. Look,

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he played his college ball at Cal. You know that as well as

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I do. Right, Okay,
you know that most people love Los Angeles

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or love California. Not necessarily me, but most people will go out there.

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Oh, I love the sun,
I love the beaches and blah blah

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blah blah. Right, so they're
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no to it. I remember going
to UCLA's campus for the first time,

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and I was fortunate, really fortunate
because a friend of mine, Bill Clark,

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and I were getting ready to call
Michigan UCLA. We get a tour

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of the campus with John Wooden.
It was awesome. But with Jared Goff,

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I mean, here's a guy who
goes to you know, he's from

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California. We're in Catholic high school
in California. He goes to Cal,

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he gets drafted by the Rams.
First over, life has got to be

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good, and then what happens well, he signs in a extension. Seventeen

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months after that, he gets traded
to Detroit, and I'm sure the thought

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process right away for him and his
family, anybody close to him, is

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like, oh man, what a
stark contrast. You're going from sandy beaches

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and eighty degree weather. It's sure
more traffic, but you're going to a

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place where it's blue collar. Bring
your snowshoes, bring your winter jacket,

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make sure someone's there to help you
shovel the driveway. Who knows. Look

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how he's turned out for him,
Look how he's enjoyed it. And remember

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his first year wasn't good, not
as much personally as team wise. As

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a starter for Detroit, he went
three ten and one his first year,

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only played fourteen of the sixteen games
because of the injury. Then it starts

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to turn the corner a little bit, and by the end of twenty twenty

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two, how many people were going, Yes, I really like it here.

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He's appreciated here. I think it
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In certain areas as California may be, do they truly care about their athletes?

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In the state of Michigan, they
do. He senses it. He's

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not the only athlete who senses it. Plenty before him, plenty playing with

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him, and plenty after him already
have that sense. But you should feel

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good that one of the most important
athletes in this town. Whether you like

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him or not, whether you think
the contract was right or not, he's

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important. I know there's plenty of
on you who think anybody could do what

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he does. That's not true,
as you just heard with what we said

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in our interview with Colton Poucy.
Everyone thinks you can just take one piece

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out and replace it with somebody who's
less experienced. It's kind of like the

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Tigers situation that we'll get into at
the bottom of the hour. Just take

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this guy out and put the other
guy in. What's the goal? The

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goal is to win it all.
Now you've set yourself up. You set

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yourself up that if you don't get
that championship, especially within the next couple

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of years, it's not going to
look great. But the goal is to

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get there and win it. Can
you do that with just a plug in

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person because you're a little frustrated,
disappointed and unsure of the contract, not

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with the options, not with Ryan
Tannehill, not with Hendon Hooker, with

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a high end guy. You're damn
right. But he could do that with

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a lot of other teams, do
you think Remember our conversation yesterday. Our

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conversation was when I said, how
many players on my team are wanted by

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the opposing coacher manager? Remember when
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of how I look at teams.
How many of those guys do I want?

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I was watching Phillies and Mets a
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to myself, there's a lot of
guys on those two teams I'd want,

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especially the Phillies. There's a lot
of teams in the NFL that would love

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to have Jared Goff. They may
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You wouldn't be able to run certain
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like Buffalo Josh Allen. But there's
a lot of teams that would like

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him, and he likes you,
and there's something to be said for that.

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Because he got the no trade clause
and that was most important. He

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ultimate goal. Well that's a great
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Before we get to that real quick. Scotti Scheffler, who had a

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couple of weeks off since his last
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events and tied for second in the
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the start of the PGA Championship did
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the police officer attempted to stop Scheffler's
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the entrance to the golf club.
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get out of the car, so
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against the car, places him in
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PGA of America officials they run the
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incident, not with Scheffler's incident, but

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because a pedestrian was struck. He
was trying to cross a road outside the

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gate of the club about five o'clock
this morning and he was hit by a

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bus in the lane that was dedicated
to buses, and the man died at

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the scene. Scotti. Scheffler is
a regular guy, I guess until he

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gets a golf club in his hand. He shot a four under yesterday.

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There he's five back of the leader
Xander Schaffley. I don't mean to go

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from you know, a pedestrian death
outside Valhalla to golf scores yesterday. Tough

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to make that transition. But the
biggest part of that story is that Scheffler

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was actually put in handcuffs before this
morning second round. But Xander Schoffley shot

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a nine under sixty two, bogie
free, nine under sixty two. You're

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out there playing if you're a guy
I like sahiit Thigala and he hurts a

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six under. Rory McElroy Card's a
five hunder twenty Feenal really good player,

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six under part and you're multiple strokes
back because Xander Schaffley shot a nine hunder

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sixty two, the fourth ever sixty
two shot in a major. Shaffley's done

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it twice, did it at the
US Opened last year. He's doing it

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at the PGA Championship this year.
That's incredible stuff. By the way,

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you heard Jared Goff talking about the
Super Bowl. That's great stuff. Man,

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it really is. Giants have Super
Bowls. Have you seen their way

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to commemorate their one hundredth season?
Their inaugural season was nineteen twenty five.

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Have you seen their I guess you
would call it throwback uniforms, but that's

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such a cliche. It's an alternate
uniform that they're going to wear two or

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three times this year. Have you
seen these? I complained about the Lions'

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new uniform look or or a chance
for them to use a different look with

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the blue and all that other stuff. I am not a fan of the

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Tiger's MotorCity. I can't stand it. I'm not going to say I'm not

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a fan. I can't stand it. I don't like the Pistons going to

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black an orange. That's me.
I understand who I am, and I

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understand I've got plenty of flaws.
I understand that my way of looking at

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tradition and wanting to stick with that
tradition is fuddy duddy ish. New word

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00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:05.119
for you, this is I have
no reason to complain when you look at

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what the Giants are going to do. They tweeted out inspired by our history,

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built for today. It's hard to
describe. I'm going to do the

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00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:16.480
best I can. If you haven't
seen it, Ben, have you seen

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00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:21.360
it yet? Yes? I have, okay, and they're ugly. Okay,

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00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.880
so you're a young guy. You
were okay with the Lions alternative jersey,

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00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:27.920
Yes, I was okay. You
didn't like the Tigers, right?

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00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:31.239
You don't like all uniforms. I
thought they were good? Oh you did

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00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:36.760
like y? And what are your
thoughts on the Pistons with the black and

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00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.320
the orange, even though neither are
in their color scheme at all. Yeah,

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not a fan of those. Not
a fan of those. Okay,

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00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:47.079
these Giants uniforms they have Ben,
it's khaki pants, right, yes,

445
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:55.199
space pants, khaki pants, red
jersey with the middle being white and blue,

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00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.599
a white stripe at the top,
the number in white with a blue

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00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:07.519
background and a white stripe underneath.
Yeah. Then there is a hint of

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00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:14.320
blue at the shoulder pads. And
they have a Michigan wolverine themed helmet,

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00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:21.000
only the winged part is in red
and the helmet is blue. It might

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00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:25.760
be, by the way. They
also have socks red at the top,

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00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.519
white stripe, blue stripe, white
stripe, then red at the bottom.

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Might be the ugliest things I've ever
seen. It's close, it's in the

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00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:39.760
conversation kind of looks like a rugby
team. To me, it does.

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00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:45.480
That's a really good point rugby.
That's exactly what it looks like with helmets.

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00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:49.079
You gotta be a badass to play
rugby, all right. When we

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00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:53.920
come back, aj Hinch's thoughts on
one particular player, will get your thoughts

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00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.440
on it. We know you don't
like it, but we're gonna get your

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00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.679
thoughts on that. And we'll take
some texts as well, because we want

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it's thirty five after the hour.
I got a tweet from our good friend

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gb Ritz. We were talking about
Jared Goff and how he wants to be

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00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:12.760
part of this city, likes to
be part of this city. It was

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00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:17.440
tweeted out by someone that Goff said, so lucky to call this city home

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00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.519
for the next few years. Truly
wouldn't want to be anywhere else. So

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00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:27.559
proud. Oh it's his fiance.
So proud of this guy, and lucky

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00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.239
to be along for the crazy ride. We love you, Detroit. Very

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00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:37.360
cool, very cool, and thanks
for that, Terry, much appreciated you,

487
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:42.119
de man. Thanks for listening to
Exis and Bros. Monday through Friday,

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00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:46.599
six until night. Now. I
would remind you this, we don't

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hear from Jared Gos's fiance that much. That's a good thing. I think

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00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.960
we heard a lot from the previous
quarterback's wife that got a little old.

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00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:08.760
And why we hear a lot about
Patrick Mahomes's wife too. It's at times

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where you just it's best to just
move on, you know what I mean,

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Just it's okay not to be in
that limelight. Let let the guy

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00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:22.320
throwing the football around do just that. But that's a very nice text,

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00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:29.079
a very nice tweet, I should
say on her behalf welcome back Monday through

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Friday six until nine. Our Meyer
hotline is eight sixty six eight three eight

497
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forty eight forty three. The text
line is a sports radio twenty one.

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00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:43.440
Before we dive into something AJ Hinch
said that is not going to make many

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00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:46.960
Tigers fans happy at all. Let's
get to a couple of texts, because

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I know they've been on there for
a while, Ben, and you've been

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00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.519
waiting to pass them along. So
go ahead. Yeah, it says golf

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lives here five months to a year
at best, he will be right back

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00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.320
in Calna full time after he leaves. Look at Stafford, he will never

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00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.880
come back full time. First of
all, we don't know that. I

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00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:12.360
mean Stafford probably won't. You're right
about that. We don't know that.

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00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:20.440
Guys who came and played, who
you thought would probably leave, actually did

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00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:25.039
stay. Calvin Johnson State, Barry
Sanders State, Chris Spielman State for an

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00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:28.800
extended period of time, and then
he moved to Columbus and now has come

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00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:36.679
back. There are plenty of athletes
who've stuck around who aren't necessarily from here

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00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:43.280
and just decided, you know what, this is my new home. There's

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a lot of athletes who just you
know, they're not living in the city

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00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.800
that they play in, Okay,
And I'm not going to sit there and

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blame them for that. I think
if I were an athlete i was playing,

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would I want to come back to
the state of Michigan. Probably,

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00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.840
But I'm not going to hold that
against you know, Matthew Stafford right now,

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00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:07.320
and I wouldn't hold it against Jared
Goff, even though I don't know

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that yet about Jared Goff. You
know, there's more baseball players live in

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Florida and Texas and Arizona and California
then they live in the cities that they

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00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:27.519
play. How many Tigers live here
year round? Let me think about that,

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Nune. So why is it?
Why is it Golf's going to get

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00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:38.960
your iyre in that regard? There's
plenty of them. I mean, you've

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00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:43.360
seen coaches, You've seen managers.
They're not living here year round either.

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00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:50.519
The general managers are. They're going
into work every single day. Members of

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00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:57.679
his staff are because they're doing the
same. Would that matter to you?

525
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.440
I mean, if he won a
Super Bowl and chose to live in California,

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00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.800
for example, in the offseas and
train there, would that upset you

527
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:12.679
probably not. If he lived here
year round and they won three games,

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does that make up for it?
Hell no, So I don't think that's

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a huge deal. You would like
them to be around more often because many

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of these athletes, you want them
to experience your state, your area even

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in the offseason. You want to
see them at other games. You'd like

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to see him at the ballpark,
for example. I understand that I can't

533
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:43.440
say that I'm different than you,
but I'm not going to hold it against

534
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.880
him. If they don't happen to
live here year round. Sure, they're

535
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:51.719
spending plenty of money and helping our
economy while they are living here. Any

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00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:54.320
more tech s Ben Yeah, It
says if Jared got traded to say,

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00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:59.480
twenty eight other teams, his career
would have spiraled. There was no Dan

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00:50:59.599 --> 00:51:01.880
Campbell, who solely changed the culture
here, a will to win, team

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00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:07.760
first, believe in yourself. And
Chris Pielman made this all happen when this

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00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:10.960
franchise was at its lowest. Now, if Goff went to Andy Reid,

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00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:17.119
yes he plays well, but Dan
Campbell saved Goff from becoming Steve Bartkowski.

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00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:23.199
That's from Freddy oh Man. Steve
Bartkowski. Good poll there loved Steve Bartkowski.

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00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.559
He could spin it with Atlanta.
Atlanta needs to go back to those

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00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:34.159
red helmets. I've said that about
Chris Pielman for a long time, so

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00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.960
that's nothing new. And I do
agree with you. I totally disagree with

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00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:44.400
you that if he had gone anywhere
else other than someplace coach by Dan Campbell,

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that he would not be successful.
Totally disagree. There's plenty of other

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00:51:52.440 --> 00:52:00.559
coaches in the NFL who could get
the most out of Jared Goff. I

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00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:06.280
truly believe that, and I'm surprised
you don't. I'm surprised you think that

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00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.519
there's only one place that it works
for Jared Goff, and it's because of

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00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:15.079
Dan Campbell, who totally changed the
culture. I would remind you that Jared

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00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.440
Goff was with Dan Campbell when he
won only three games. He is the

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quarterback. So there's no question Dan
Campbell and Brad Holmes and Chris Bielman and

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00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:30.719
other members of Dan Campbell's staff and
Brad Holmes's front office changed the culture,

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00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:37.360
no doubt about that. Kudos to
all of them. It's such a job

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00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:42.320
well done. It's look, I
don't want to get too sappy here,

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But it's very prideful that your team. This team is viewed as blueprint is

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00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.639
way too far because it's more Kansas
City and the other teams that have done

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00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.960
it for a long period of time. I would say Pittsburgh's in that conversation,

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00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:04.800
in San Francisco's in that conversation,
and they're still really good. But

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the drastic change that has forced national
people to look at Detroit differently? Is

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00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:21.440
that fair enough? It's very prideful
and we should be. However, Jared

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00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:28.320
Goff was part of the culture change. It's not just one guy. It's

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00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:30.800
not just one coach. It's not
but just one general manager. They had

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to bring in the right people.
If you believe they change the culture as

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I do. Part of the culture
change is bringing the right people. Jared

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00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:52.000
Goff's one of those people. You're
trying to tell me that without Jared Goff,

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00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:59.320
Dan Campbell has the same success or
vice versa. You think Jared Goff

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needed Dan Campbell to have success.
What about going to the super Bowl with

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00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:10.559
Sean McVay. How about that one. I know Sean McVay in the end

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00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:16.960
didn't want him because they traded him
and the Lions are happy for it.

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00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:22.440
McVeigh did get to a Super Bowl
with Jared Goff, so he has proven

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he can win with another head coach
and he could work just fine with a

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00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:36.119
number a myriad of other head coaches
in the NFL and have success. I

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00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:43.679
do not believe that Jared Goff's career
was saved by Dan Campbell. Do they

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00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:50.760
accentuate his positive attributes without question.
It's not just Dan Campbell, by the

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00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.119
way, it's Ben Johnson two.
Brad Holmes had to believe in him.

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00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:00.159
He is good enough. We make
it sound I don't think Freddie Mee is

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00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.000
it this way, So this is
not a Freddy, but we make it

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00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:12.760
sound like Jared Goff wouldn't be anything
but a backup or a last place quarterback

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in any other organization. That is
such crap. He's a good quarterback,

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00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.880
man. I'm not saying he's a
Hall of Famer, but he's a damn

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00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:30.079
good quarterback. Ben back to the
text line. People could text us at

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00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.400
Sports Radio twenty one thousand. All
you gotta do is text Sports Radio to

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00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:37.480
twenty one thousand. Ben'll read your
text and we'll talk about it. Go

586
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:39.079
ahead, Ben, Yeah, this
one's over to the Tigers. It says

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00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:45.000
who gets the most credit for this
pitching staff pitching wise this year, Hinch,

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00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:53.400
Rogers or Fetter. Great question.
I tend to believe it's It would

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00:55:53.400 --> 00:56:00.119
be more Chris Fetter. And the
reason I say that it's Chris Fveederick's Robin

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00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:08.840
Lund. I think it's more than
because they're with those pitchers specifically every single

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00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:21.880
day. They are focused on what
they do. It's kind of like remember

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when the Atlanta Braves had Smoltz and
Glavin and Maddox. Remember when they were

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a dominant team back in the day. And let's face it, they had

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some decent offense, there's no doubt
about that, but they also had an

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00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:57.800
incredible pitching staff, right and Bobby
Cox was the guy in charge. But

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00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:06.960
they had some pretty damn good tutors
for that, for that pitching coach or

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00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:12.280
for the that pitching staff. Okay, and when you do that, when

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00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:17.880
you have guys like that. Leo
Mazzone was the guy Leo Mazzoni. Uh,

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00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.039
and then he went to Baltimore,
you have that knowledge. He deserves

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00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:28.199
a lot of that credit since they're
focused on one aspect of it. I

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00:57:28.360 --> 00:57:35.559
remember when the Tiger's pitching staff was
terrible, everybody. This is way before

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00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:38.360
Chris Fetter, God who is the
pitching coach? Back then? Darn it

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00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:46.360
was even before Jeff Jones. Anyway, everyone wanted to Everyone wanted to blame

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00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:52.000
the pitching coach. Well, if
if people feel like the pitching coach is

605
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:58.079
an issue or the hitting coach right
now people want to move on from Michael

606
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:04.239
Berdaro whomever, some of the pitching
coaches or batting coaches, then you've got

607
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:07.159
to be willing to give credit where
the credit is due. On the other

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00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:14.760
side, don't you. I would
rank them Fetter, Hinch, Rogers,

609
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:21.079
Carson Kelly also catches him too,
So remember that, all right, Speaking

610
00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:25.719
of AJ Hinch and the Tigers,
Hinch on the day off, knowing his

611
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:32.199
team is under five hundred for the
first time, also understands that this offense

612
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:43.079
is horrible, period, simply horrible. The biggest culprit you would argue is

613
00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:49.360
Aavier bias. There's plenty of blame
to go around, but it is primarily

614
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:58.239
Detroit's infield. This is a team
that ranks twenty second or worse in all

615
00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:07.079
the really important categories offensively, and
if you look at them. It has

616
00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:12.400
primarily to do with the infield.
They're getting production from the outfield, but

617
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:28.119
the infield is horrible. There's no
pop there, Torkulsen, Banyez Bias,

618
00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:37.960
so there's frustration there. You're getting
it from Riley Green, Mark Canna,

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carry Carpenter. To a certain extent, they have probably been Detroit's most consistent

620
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:52.800
hitters. I think that's a fair
statement. I don't know if it's going

621
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:57.000
to end that way, but that's
the way it is so far. Infield's

622
00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.280
a different story. Cole Keith you
got to throw in there, even though

623
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:07.599
he's not playing every single day.
But the most glaring hiccup in that entire

624
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:15.000
lineup is Hoavier Bias. He has
the worst on base percentage, the worst

625
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:22.360
slugging percentage, and the worst on
bass plus slug or ops in Major League

626
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:34.880
Baseball. Only Randy A. Rose
Arena has a worst batting average among everyday

627
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:45.119
players. Think of that. That's
how bad it is. Now are you

628
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:49.039
going to give? Would you give
Randy a Rose Arena the benefit of the

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01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:58.360
doubt? Absolutely, Rookie of the
Year, ALCS MVP, an All Star,

630
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:00.199
a guy who does a lot of
things well. He was an All

631
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:05.920
Star year ago. Right now,
he leads the league in strikeouts and has

632
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:07.760
way too many over the last two
years. He's strike out one hundred and

633
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.280
fifty six times last year, one
hundred and fifty six times the year before.

634
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:16.400
But he's a I don't I don't
think he's a five tool player,

635
01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:22.400
but he's pretty damn close to it
because he doesn't hit for great average and

636
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.039
he doesn't have great pop. I
mean, I think his career high Homer's

637
01:01:25.079 --> 01:01:29.679
twenty three steal some basses. I
wouldn't call him a five tool player,

638
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:34.840
but he's a good player. You'd
want him in left field for you on

639
01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:37.199
a regular basis, wouldn't you.
Yeah, you didn't take it absolutely.

640
01:01:38.599 --> 01:01:42.000
So you think he's gonna got he
he's going to break out of that.

641
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:49.679
You don't think Randy Rosa Rainez start
for Tampa right now is who he is.

642
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:53.039
I don't want to put words in
your mouth, but that's that's the

643
01:01:53.119 --> 01:02:05.639
feeling I get. Hovey or bias
you think is already defined. Aj Hinch

644
01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:10.280
says about bias when people ask what
do you do with him? Are you

645
01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:14.920
going to bench him? He said
this, He's going to play a lot.

646
01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:20.280
We have to try to find a
way to get more out of him.

647
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:30.119
There's an occasional misstep here or there, but no at bats. Giving

648
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:34.920
away his at bats. Taking away
his at bats is not going to be

649
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:39.760
the answer. He said, He's
got to keep getting his rhythm and timing

650
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:46.880
and hopefully getting in a position to
produce offensively. That's the goal. Doesn't

651
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:52.039
have to carry the team, but
we got to find a way for him

652
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:55.719
to contribute. We got to push
the right buttons. All fair enough,

653
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:02.440
all something that a manager or a
coach is going to say about a highly

654
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:10.519
priced player. What would the follow
up question be? How long? Long

655
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:16.199
is long enough? Right? How
far are you willing to go with him?

656
01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:27.000
How long is that proverbia leash?
People think it's really easy. All

657
01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:31.840
you gotta do is bench him.
There are follow up questions there. How

658
01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:37.000
long do you bench him for?
Who takes his place? And for how

659
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:44.559
long? What do you do after
the benching? When do you bring him

660
01:03:44.599 --> 01:03:52.000
back? Then? How long is
the leash? There are plenty of repercussions

661
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:53.840
that we'll discuss when we come back
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facts and come back and Seebee.
Don't throw out salaries or other things.

686
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Get some facts and come back and
Seebee. You can't handle the true now

687
01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:29.320
told our players you need a bit
more like a dog. We don't need

688
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:31.800
a bunch of cats in here looking
in the mirror, I look good.

689
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:35.719
I got my extra bands on,
I got my other shoes. Be a

690
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:40.239
doll. We don't need no meals, we don't need no cats. We

691
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:45.199
need more dogs. Were not a
detained. Oh you're not that detained.

692
01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.480
We weren't good. There's no sense
of asking me things about the game.

693
01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:50.079
I'm telling you we laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down

694
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:55.159
for you. He sucks, he
sucks, but he laid an egg.

695
01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:57.880
That's all I have to say.
Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going

696
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.119
to break it down for you.
Nothing went well for it's on us.

697
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:05.559
We have to figure it out.
And we went eight Showdown, final hour

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of x'es and Bros. Glad you're
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The Meyer hotline is eight sixty six
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producer does a great job day in
a day out. We're glad you're with

702
01:07:24.079 --> 01:07:26.800
us. Tigers opened up a six
game road trip, first of three in

703
01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:30.760
Arizona tonight. Trek Scooble gets the
call. Jack Flaherty will pitch game two,

704
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:35.719
Matt manning game three. They need
runs, they're not getting them at

705
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:40.719
all. They take out on Arizona
team. That is a couple of games

706
01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:44.119
under five hundred, but they have
played decent ball as of late, winning

707
01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:48.719
seven of their last ten. If
you missed it last night, Vancouver scored

708
01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:54.599
a late goal in the third.
They trim Edmonton three to two. They

709
01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:59.280
came back from one to nothing down
and two to one down. They lead

710
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:01.960
the series three games to two.
The Rangers game was unbelievable, man.

711
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.039
It was a three to one Carolina
lead heading into the third at home,

712
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:12.280
and the Rangers score four times.
The last one is an empty netter,

713
01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:18.000
a natural hat trick for Chris Kreider, and he leads them into the Eastern

714
01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:24.079
Conference finals. Crider joins Mark Messier
and Wayne Gretzky, is the only Rangers

715
01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:28.640
to score three goals in a period
in a playoff game, and the Rangers

716
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:32.039
are the only President's Trophy winner in
the last ten years to reach the conference

717
01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:39.760
finals. In basketball, Minnesota staves
off elimination. Anthony Edwards had twenty seven

718
01:08:39.840 --> 01:08:45.520
to lead the Timberwolves to a blowout
win of Denver one point fifteen to seventy.

719
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:48.039
The Nuggets, for as good as
they are that are defending world champions,

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01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:51.840
they are a team that is to
be reckoned with. Without question.

721
01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:57.720
They've got superstars, they got the
MVP. They shot thirty percent from the

722
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:06.920
floor. Seven is Sunday and the
PGA Championship, the one hundred and six

723
01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:15.039
playing at Valhalla has some incredible names
atop the board, led by Xander Schoffley,

724
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.000
who card at a nine hunder sixty
two. The fourth man. Actually

725
01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:23.159
he's the third man because he's done
it twice. To ever carred a sixty

726
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:27.840
two in a major. He did
it last year at the US Open.

727
01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:31.640
He did it this year in Round
one of the PGA Championship on a course

728
01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:35.000
that is supposed to be very challenging. I've never played it. Over seventy

729
01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:43.319
six hundred yards, sixty four men
were in red figures. That's pretty damn

730
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:47.840
good. The defending champion is Brooks
Koepka. He's at four under. So

731
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:53.880
is Scottie Scheffler, who is detained
by police before the start of the second

732
01:09:53.960 --> 01:10:02.000
round today because around five am a
bystander was walking across the street near Valhallack

733
01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:06.119
Golf Club in the bus lane and
was struck by a bus at five o'clock

734
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:15.760
this morning, so they had some
parts of it marked off. Scheffler drove

735
01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:21.840
by that marked off area. A
police officer launched himself onto his car told

736
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:26.119
him to get out, Scheffler gets
out. He throws Sheffler up against the

737
01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:30.880
car and puts him in handcuffs.
The championship was delayed because of that deadly

738
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:38.119
crash, so they're about to get
underway. Scheffler, by the way,

739
01:10:38.439 --> 01:10:44.399
from all intentsive purposes, just a
really good dude. Apparently, after a

740
01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:49.199
misunderstanding with traffic, they take him, They put him in handcuffs, they

741
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:56.079
get situated, everything's figured out.
Scheffler's ready to play round two. There

742
01:10:56.119 --> 01:11:00.199
you go, that's what's going on
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743
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:02.319
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744
01:11:02.399 --> 01:11:06.399
Freddie is standing by on a Friday
morning. Freddie, good morning. How

745
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:14.640
are you a chef? When I
find interesting about Scheffler is not the situation,

746
01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:18.239
but a bunning star that people don't
even know. If you walk,

747
01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:20.640
if we delivered a pizza the year
of the house, you won't even know

748
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:24.880
who not you, but most people
won't even know what he looks like.

749
01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:30.640
That's the funny thing. Everyone don't
tell you what as long as it's your

750
01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:36.840
pizza. Yeah, well well yeah, I just gots It's just you know,

751
01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:40.720
I don't I don't get to see
him play much because I'm still kind

752
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.239
of bitterer, a lout in my
favorite with the favorites when to have lived.

753
01:11:44.520 --> 01:11:46.479
So I don't watch as much,
you know, so, but make

754
01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:51.199
you just out of curiosity? Why
does it make you bitter? Because I

755
01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:54.800
don't get to watch them. I
don't know, I don't know where they're

756
01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:57.920
at, I don't know channel they're
on, I don't know what's where they're

757
01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:01.520
streaming at. And he of the
guys, I JT was one of my

758
01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:06.680
Why am I jama blank? Right? Because you just talked about Wayne Gretzky,

759
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:14.199
his son in law. I'm drawing
the blank right now. You who

760
01:12:14.199 --> 01:12:17.199
are you talking about? No,
Wayne Gretky, southern in law. Why

761
01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:21.600
am I Dramaba? Dustin Dustin Johnson, Dustin Johnson Sorry, Dustin Johnson.

762
01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:25.800
Yeah, you don't get to see
him play anymore because you know he went

763
01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:29.039
to live and you know stuff like
that, And I just you know,

764
01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:32.039
I want to understand the PGA tour, so I get it. But if

765
01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:34.520
you have if you have the Internet, if you have YouTube, you can

766
01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:40.560
watch them. Yeah. Well yeah, well I'm not gonna do it.

767
01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:45.000
So but before I before I get
to Tigers, you said something interesting about

768
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:53.640
the New York Rangers. How Wayne
Gretzky and Mark and Mark Messier where there's

769
01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:57.199
only two guys, isn't there Isn't
it amazing for a team like the New

770
01:12:57.279 --> 01:13:00.000
York Rangers. It took two and
the ten Oilers to break that record.

771
01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:05.800
Yeah, most young people wouldn't even
know those guys played for the Edmonton Oynis.

772
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:10.199
Yeah, pretty impressive stuff. Yeah, well, I'm sure a lot

773
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:13.439
of people don't know. Young people
don't know that Wayne Gretzky also, you

774
01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.520
know, played for the Saint Louis
Blues. So anyway, exactly. Anyway,

775
01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:23.640
so hobby biased. I gotta tell
you, I am so tired of

776
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:28.439
hearing about hobby bias. You turn
on any station, read something, it's

777
01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:31.800
always about hobby bias. So you
know, no one has a solution,

778
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:38.000
and you know, I don't know. Sometimes I feel like for the Tigers,

779
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:45.439
maybe it's all everyone's talking about and
they're not really talking about what's really

780
01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:48.720
going on, the guys not hitting
or the team's not hitting, or struggles

781
01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:53.159
here, struggles there. So let's
keep hobby around. And and uh,

782
01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:59.199
you know, for me, if
it was for me and I'm about this,

783
01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:02.159
this is my opinion. You know, I topt you earlier in the

784
01:14:02.199 --> 01:14:06.079
week. I threw off some ideas
like, hey, trade a bad contract

785
01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:12.439
for a bad contract I've heard attached
a top prospect get rid of them.

786
01:14:12.439 --> 01:14:15.840
I would not do that. I
would not get rid of a top prospect

787
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:18.880
just so a team could take them. But that if it was for me,

788
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:23.039
Yeah, if it was me,
And I listen, I'm a businessman,

789
01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:26.079
but I don't want a billion dollar
corporation, so I'm not I'm not

790
01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:30.039
in the equation. But I am
a businessman and I've done I've made mistakes,

791
01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:33.239
and I've taken lasses, and I've
had to take losses. And I

792
01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:38.880
think it's it's it's really getting to
the point where, you know, the

793
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:43.439
only one may have to buy him
out because this is all everyone's talking about.

794
01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:47.760
Sheep is hobby biased. It's getting
annoying, and he may have to

795
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:49.880
pay him off to get rid of
him. I mean, what are your

796
01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:58.399
thoughts about that? Well, you're
talking about ninety eight million dollars. It's

797
01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:02.399
sexually seventy three butt if you include
this year. So I mean, it's

798
01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:05.079
it's easy for me to say that. It's easy for me to say,

799
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:09.520
just buy him out, give him
the twenty five million this year, give

800
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:12.880
him twenty five next year, and
give him forty eight over the following two

801
01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:16.600
years. Would you do that?
What you're gonna pay him, But you're

802
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:21.000
gonna pay him if he's here,
or or or you pay him off.

803
01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.880
No, correct, Yeah, but
at least with at least if you have

804
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:27.119
him here, and thanks to the
phone call I got, I got to

805
01:15:27.159 --> 01:15:30.079
get to a break. At least
with having him here, you get a

806
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:34.279
chance to turn him around. If
you think he's a completely lost cause,

807
01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:39.800
then you can cut him and see
if somebody else wants to pick him up,

808
01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:44.039
and then pay the salary. It's
not gonna happen, though, It's

809
01:15:44.119 --> 01:15:46.600
just not going to because no team
is going to do that. You're not

810
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.079
gonna trade him, and you're sure
as hell don't trade a top prospect,

811
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let's say a Jackson Job, a
Cole Keith, whoever it may be in

812
01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:58.439
your system. You sure as hell
don't do that. Oh, please take

813
01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:01.279
one of my best prospects so I
can get rid of the worst player on

814
01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:06.119
my team. There's no logic to
that whatsoever. We're back with more after

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Aj Hint says what separates the top level

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pitchers from the rest of the pack
is the ability to just keep stacking strong

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outings, one on top of the
other. Now he was talking about Trek

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last fourteen starts, going back to
last year, Olsen's been incredibly consistent.

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In eighty three innings, He's allowed
just fifty hits. He's allowed more than

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two earned runs once. Hint says, Olsen has an incredible feel for pitching,

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knowing how to attack different lineups.
You can throw all four pitches are

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our producer. We appreciate it.
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be back with us on Monday.
They're working to get it fixed. That

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Base City. Who can't hear what I'm

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saying right now, but just FYI, all right, so making some things

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happen. So the phone number on
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Sports Radio to twenty one thousand, and

845
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.039
feel free to do that. We're
talking a little bit. Look Freddy's right.

846
01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:54.079
Just before the break, Freddy called
said, now everyone's writing about this,

847
01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:56.920
everyone's talking about how your bikes.
Well there's a reason for that.

848
01:19:58.399 --> 01:20:01.359
You know, this is not a
promotional. This isn't what Caitlin Clark,

849
01:20:02.199 --> 01:20:06.760
you know where it's over exposed.
She had nine points in her home debut

850
01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:10.920
last night and they got blown out
by New York. Not that I want

851
01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:12.800
to tell you, not that we're
going to talk about it. I'm just

852
01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:17.600
letting you know she and it's no
fault of her. It's the media jumping

853
01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:20.880
all over it. But when you
have two point three million people watch your

854
01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:25.840
first game, when you sell out, you're on national TV on every game,

855
01:20:26.279 --> 01:20:30.840
and you sell out your home ticket
allotments, people are going to talk

856
01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:40.600
about you. I think we go
overboard with athletes because we got the twenty

857
01:20:40.600 --> 01:20:48.920
four hour cycle. I'll give you
a case in point Tiger Woods ten straight

858
01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:56.479
times now where he has shot over
par right, I think that's what I

859
01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:00.399
saw last night. But either way
everybody's talking about Tiger Woods. He was

860
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:06.800
won over how far back he is
the leader's at nine under. He's not

861
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:11.800
winning this tournament. But that's what
everybody starts their highlights out with, all

862
01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:18.760
right, because people want to know
about Tiger Woods. Okay, that's what's

863
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:25.920
going on with Havier Bias. When
you are as highly paid as Biases,

864
01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:30.319
when you play the most, you
could argue the most important position. It's

865
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:36.960
probably catcher, but the most important
position that he does that the team is

866
01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:46.840
financially committed to him for another three
years after this. Of course, people

867
01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.279
are going to write about it and
talk about it, and when he's struggling.

868
01:21:51.319 --> 01:22:00.920
I know that it doesn't mean that
you should avoid it, though I

869
01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:03.880
think it's ridiculous. I don't know
if anybody. I don't think anyone's written

870
01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:06.840
this. I don't know if anyone's
talked about it. I don't know if

871
01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:12.600
fans have contemplated it. If they
have, it's ridiculous. There's no way

872
01:22:13.640 --> 01:22:17.640
a team says, in order for
me to get rid of my worst asset,

873
01:22:18.520 --> 01:22:27.760
I'm going to give up my best
future asset business wise makes no sense.

874
01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:39.279
The problem with Bias and his contract
and his lack of hitting is that

875
01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:46.000
no one would touch him. I
know there's plenty of fans who would want

876
01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:49.399
to do this in a fantasy where
Okay, we're getting close to the deadline,

877
01:22:50.119 --> 01:22:55.439
Tigers are not in this thing.
What do we do. Let's trade

878
01:22:55.479 --> 01:23:00.319
a commodity that we have that somebody
wants. Immediately your thought goes to pitching,

879
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:03.960
right, of course, immediately your
thought goes to a young pitcher.

880
01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:09.359
I gotta trade Jack Flaherty, right, maybe you will. I don't know,

881
01:23:09.439 --> 01:23:15.119
maybe they did, sort of like
what Michael Lorenzen did. You wish

882
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:17.119
you could tread Ken Tamada. No
one's gonna want him. So you go

883
01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:19.840
to a Casey Mice, you go
to a Matt Manning, you go to

884
01:23:19.960 --> 01:23:25.279
a Trek schoobl you go to That's
where your mind takes you. And then

885
01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:31.079
you think, I got an idea
to make things at least sweet for me

886
01:23:32.119 --> 01:23:39.199
but sour for you. You got
to take Miz Manning or Schooble with bias.

887
01:23:40.920 --> 01:23:47.159
Teams aren't going to do that.
That's an immediate turnoff. That's like

888
01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:53.319
taking a girl out on the first
date and she's picking her nose. First

889
01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:56.439
time you go see her. You
walk up to the steps and she's smoking.

890
01:23:57.439 --> 01:24:00.159
I don't mean smoking hot, I
mean smoking a Cigarett. Turn off,

891
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:04.920
turn off, I'm out. General
managers are going to hang the phone

892
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:14.039
up, They're gonna drive the car
off the road. They're gonna disconnect their

893
01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:18.840
bluetooth. That's not happening, So
you can get that out of here.

894
01:24:19.439 --> 01:24:29.399
I suppose you could find one irresponsible
I won't use the word stupid. Irresponsible

895
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:34.000
GM to do that. I doubt
it, highly doubt it. Maybe they've

896
01:24:34.000 --> 01:24:40.000
got so much money. Wouldn't be
the Mets, but it wouldn't be the

897
01:24:40.119 --> 01:24:44.800
Yankees. They got they're okay with
the Vulpian Torres. Maybe there's a team

898
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:47.560
out there that says, you know
what, we need that picture so desperately,

899
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:51.119
we will take the other guy and
eat his contract. It's just I

900
01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:57.279
don't see how that happens. I
don't see how they they possibly eat seventy

901
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:03.319
three million dollars. Those general managers
have to go to a higher caller,

902
01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:10.920
their owner. They have to go
to their owner and say, here's what

903
01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:17.520
we've done. We've acquired Casey my
Matt mannure Terry Cool, and we've done

904
01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:28.359
that. But we've also had to
collect a less than desirable contract. Oh

905
01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:32.960
yeah, what's that. We've got
Javier Bias and we're going to owe him

906
01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:40.520
seventy three million dollars after this year. That seems like pretty steep. I

907
01:25:40.600 --> 01:25:44.640
don't know the young fellow, but
my guess is he better be worth it,

908
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:49.399
right, because that's pretty well quite
honestly, No, he's eighty two

909
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:58.239
percent worse than the average hitter.
I'm sorry. What, yeah, it's

910
01:25:58.840 --> 01:26:03.520
it's not a great situation, but
I had to make the deal. I

911
01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:10.199
hate to tell you this, but
is on base plus slunking percentage has dropped

912
01:26:10.199 --> 01:26:15.880
in each of the last three years
with Detroit. I can't do anything about

913
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.199
it. I had to have the
pitching. I know he's hitting in just

914
01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:24.199
one sixty seven and one homer and
he's only walked five times. But I

915
01:26:24.359 --> 01:26:30.199
really think the pitchon's going to help. You're fired. That's my money and

916
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:34.159
you're wasting it. But he's a
two time All Star in his prime,

917
01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:42.880
not now, so that's not happening. You have to write it out.

918
01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:49.720
I know it's tough. You have
to hope or rely. Hope is gone.

919
01:26:49.960 --> 01:26:54.720
You have to rely on your coaches
to make him better, and you

920
01:26:54.920 --> 01:27:00.319
better try and pray as hard as
you can that he figures something out.

921
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:08.800
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big plans coming this weekend and you're
excited for them. Enjoy it if you

945
01:29:27.479 --> 01:29:30.359
missed it. Last night, Rangers
come for three to one down. They

946
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:33.560
beat Carolina five to three. They
eliminate the Hurricanes in six games. Chris

947
01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:39.079
Krider had the hat trick. It
was a natural hat trick. It all

948
01:29:39.159 --> 01:29:43.520
came in the third period, and
the Rangers are into the finals there where

949
01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:47.680
they play Eastern Conference Finals, where
they play either Florida or Boston. I'm

950
01:29:47.720 --> 01:29:50.920
not sure who the better matchup is. I can't necessarily break that down.

951
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:56.479
I just know Florida's tough to play
against. Man. They really are.

952
01:29:57.079 --> 01:30:01.960
I said this middle of the season, as were really good. You sure

953
01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:08.920
didn't need me to tell you that. But they are sustainable because of their

954
01:30:09.000 --> 01:30:17.800
depth and Shaskirkin is really good in
net on the west side, Dallas leads

955
01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:23.840
Colorado three games to two, and
now Edmonton trails Vancouver three games to two

956
01:30:23.880 --> 01:30:28.800
because the Canucks won last night three
to two. The biggest surprise, well,

957
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:33.960
the fact that Carolina surroundered a three
to one third period lead is surprising.

958
01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:43.199
But to watch Denver get steamrolled by
Minnesota. I don't know if you

959
01:30:43.279 --> 01:30:46.600
saw this, or maybe you just
tuned it out after a while because you

960
01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:53.439
saw how it was going one fifteen
to seventy. Anthony Edwards said twenty seven.

961
01:30:54.800 --> 01:31:00.640
Rudy Gobert must have had I think
he had five more rebounds than Nikola

962
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.960
Jokic. Maybe, just maybe he
took it a little personal. Not sure.

963
01:31:04.640 --> 01:31:08.680
He was showing seven fingers to the
crowd, saying, you know it's

964
01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:13.520
going to take seven games. Here
we go, and now they're going to

965
01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:21.359
do just that. Sunday in Denver, the one fifteen to seventy decisive knockout,

966
01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:27.520
the forty five point win the Wolf's
largest winning margin in a postseason game

967
01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:31.239
since twenty fifteen when they beat Milwaukee, or I should say when Chicago beat

968
01:31:31.279 --> 01:31:40.199
Milwaukee by fifty four points, clinching
a first round playoff series win, so

969
01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:53.680
the largest postseason victory for any team
since twenty fifteen. That's impressive. Here's

970
01:31:53.720 --> 01:32:00.479
the other thing I noticed last night
after the Rangers won, Chris Kreyd took

971
01:32:00.520 --> 01:32:03.640
a hockey puck. Had to have
some velcro on it. They had a

972
01:32:03.800 --> 01:32:14.319
little like Stanley Cup and then series
brackets on it, sort of like what

973
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:18.600
they do in the NCAA tournament where
they move forward. You know you'll see

974
01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:26.720
them take their team name, slap
it on a bracket, have some magnetic

975
01:32:26.840 --> 01:32:32.800
force, and celebrate in their locker
room with everybody. Really is a cool

976
01:32:32.880 --> 01:32:41.359
moment. I didn't know NHL teams
were doing that. I didn't know that

977
01:32:41.479 --> 01:32:46.479
was a thing, but it's cool
that they get involved in stuff like that.

978
01:32:47.479 --> 01:32:51.079
Hey, I wanted to bring this
up two days ago when it came

979
01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:55.520
out, but we never got to
it. I think we were too.

980
01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:01.000
First of all, we were talking
more about the Jared Goff signing extension,

981
01:33:01.479 --> 01:33:04.960
and we were talking about, you
know, the Tigers back to back shut

982
01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:10.840
out losses to Miami and they haven't
scored in nineteen straight innings. CBS Sports

983
01:33:10.920 --> 01:33:14.800
came out with a poll that's not
even a poll, it's a ranking.

984
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:24.720
They're writers decided what has who the
best coaches are? How's that? And

985
01:33:25.960 --> 01:33:29.479
first of all, there's a lot
more to coaching just than just what you

986
01:33:29.640 --> 01:33:34.399
see on the field to play,
as we all know. But they took

987
01:33:34.479 --> 01:33:45.520
the power for conferences and ranked the
coaches sixty eight teams, sixty eight coaches.

988
01:33:47.439 --> 01:33:55.279
Where this is hard to do,
but where would you put Jonathan Smith

989
01:33:55.640 --> 01:34:06.920
Michigan State and Sharon Moore Michigan Where
would you rank them? CBA Sports has

990
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:13.760
Cheron Moore ranked sixty second or fifty
second. Rather, here's what they write.

991
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:16.439
We don't typically see first year coaches
start this high in the rankings.

992
01:34:17.159 --> 01:34:23.760
But more isn't your typical first year
coach He served four games as head coach

993
01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:29.079
last season thanks to Harbaugh's transgressions,
but won them all, including victories against

994
01:34:29.079 --> 01:34:32.520
Penn State and Ohio State. Plenty
of coaches are ranked ahead of him without

995
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:39.560
wins. That impressive, but it'll
be interesting to see how more performs as

996
01:34:39.760 --> 01:34:48.600
captain of a ship coming off a
national title. They have him behind a

997
01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:58.399
number of coaches that you look at
and think, no way, how in

998
01:34:58.520 --> 01:35:03.159
the hell is he behigh this guy? Now, if you're looking for other

999
01:35:03.239 --> 01:35:06.920
Big Ten coaches, just to put
it in perspective for you, and I

1000
01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:14.119
mean traditional Big Ten, not the
teams that are coming over. Purdue,

1001
01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:19.159
Ryan Walters has ranked sixty fifth out
of sixty eight. Sixty eight, by

1002
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:24.319
the way, is Deshaun Foster,
first year head coach UCLA sixty fifth for

1003
01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:30.239
Ryan Walters. This is all very
subjective as far as I'm concerned, but

1004
01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:35.000
play along if you don't mind.
Northwestern's David Braun just behind Sharon Moore.

1005
01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:43.960
Braun was the interim coach at Northwestern
just before the season started because of the

1006
01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:47.199
problems with Pat Fitzgerald, and he
led the Wildcats do an eight and five

1007
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:58.079
record that was that exceeded everybody's expectations. If that's the case, why would

1008
01:35:58.079 --> 01:36:03.520
he not. I mean, he's
got thirteen games under his belt and a

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01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:13.960
win. This is why it's so
damn subjective. Sometimes it's tough to make

1010
01:36:14.000 --> 01:36:23.680
sense of it. Kurt Signetti is
the Indiana coach. It's going to be

1011
01:36:23.720 --> 01:36:28.680
his first year as the head coach
of the Hoosiers. He's got experience,

1012
01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:34.680
He's been at different places, including
most recently James Madison, but first time

1013
01:36:34.760 --> 01:36:41.239
that he's in a Power four conference. And yet he's ahead of Sharon Moore.

1014
01:36:41.439 --> 01:36:44.000
I'm not saying Charon Moore should be
ahead of him. I'm just giving

1015
01:36:44.039 --> 01:36:46.920
you an idea, all right.
Mike Loxley Maryland. He's at forty one.

1016
01:36:48.279 --> 01:36:54.560
He's coming off an eight and five
campaign. But Maryland's won three straight

1017
01:36:54.600 --> 01:37:00.600
bowl games. They've under well,
actually they haven't finished with a Big Ten.

1018
01:37:01.119 --> 01:37:06.119
Above five hundred record in the Big
Ten doesn't help when you're playing in

1019
01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:10.479
the same division as Michigan and Ohio
State and Penn State and Michigan State.

1020
01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:16.880
But those are the facts. Just
ahead of him at thirty nine or at

1021
01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:23.479
forty rather is Rutgers. That's Greg
Chiano. Greg Cianno's got a pretty good

1022
01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:30.159
track record. That's a really hard
job there at Rutgers. Their facility stink,

1023
01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:43.039
that football stadium blows. PJ.
Fleck, Minnesota thirty nine. I

1024
01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:49.279
don't. I don't get that.
I just don't. Six and seventy year

1025
01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:55.399
ago, first losing Big Ten record
in a full season since he took over,

1026
01:37:57.159 --> 01:38:02.119
or a second since the second year
two thousand eighteen. He's at thirty

1027
01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:12.279
nine. No way would not want
him on my sideline. Brett Beilama,

1028
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:16.000
Illinois thirty six. That guy's got
a proven track wreck. Now he also

1029
01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:20.760
had a bad, proven track record
at Arkansas. But we're talking about right

1030
01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:25.760
now, all right again, I'm
going to the traditional ones. I'm not

1031
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:34.359
going to Oregon and USC and the
like Nebraska. Matt Rule. He went

1032
01:38:34.439 --> 01:38:40.039
to and ten in his first year. Remember his first year Baylor, he

1033
01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:43.840
was terrible and then he turned it
around. So he's at twenty nine.

1034
01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:50.680
Jonathan Smith is at twenty seven.
Here's what they write about Jonathan Smith.

1035
01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:56.479
I would argue that our annual coach
rankings were ahead of the curve on Smith.

1036
01:38:56.840 --> 01:39:00.000
He's done well here on an annual
basis. Now that Smith has led

1037
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:04.399
in the Big Ten, his profile
will likely rise further considering the total roster

1038
01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:09.079
overhaul that's taking place, and he's
lansing this offseason. I don't know how

1039
01:39:09.199 --> 01:39:13.640
expectations should be set this season,
but Smith's track record suggest Sparty will be

1040
01:39:13.720 --> 01:39:20.640
happy with its decision in the long
run. I guess what I sometimes,

1041
01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:29.359
what I wonder when they do these
rankings is do you take into account just

1042
01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:32.000
how good of a guy, what
a good job he's done in a difficult

1043
01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:38.880
circumstance. He was really good at
Oregon State. Personally, this is just

1044
01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:46.159
my opinion. I think he should
be in the top twenty five. I'm

1045
01:39:46.199 --> 01:39:49.079
not saying he's better than Sunny Dike's. I'm not saying he's better than Eli

1046
01:39:49.199 --> 01:39:57.560
Drinkwitz. But I look Jeff Browms
struggled at Purdue mightily, and then he

1047
01:39:57.600 --> 01:40:00.039
goes to Louisville and he had a
really good season. I'm not saying he

1048
01:40:00.079 --> 01:40:08.840
shouldn't be number nineteen, but Jonathan
Smith deserves the same type of credit other

1049
01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:15.640
Big Ten coaches. Kirk Farren's eighteen
at Iowa, this is a lifetime achievement.

1050
01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:19.920
Ranking plays in the weaker division.
We'll see how it had. We'll

1051
01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:23.600
see how he does when there is
no divisions, but he plays in the

1052
01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:27.239
weaker division, has not been able
to win the Big Ten title game.

1053
01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:30.439
He does it with Look, I
mean, let's be honest. Okay,

1054
01:40:30.920 --> 01:40:35.319
it's not enjoyable to watch because their
offense isn't very good. Let's see if

1055
01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:40.119
Tim Lester changes that. But their
offense just is not creative. It's not

1056
01:40:40.239 --> 01:40:45.119
good. It's not fun to watch. It's bad. The defense scores as

1057
01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:49.079
much as the offense. For crying
out loud, but that is strictly a

1058
01:40:49.199 --> 01:40:56.039
lifetime achievement. Is he the eighteenth
best coach in America? His all time

1059
01:40:56.159 --> 01:41:00.760
record would tell you he deserves that
respect, or maybe even more. But

1060
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:05.319
we're talking about to here and now, and what does he do so well?

1061
01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:15.760
It's not easy to recruit to Io
City, and yet he has found

1062
01:41:15.800 --> 01:41:21.000
a way to do it. I
can't say. Look, I remember I

1063
01:41:21.159 --> 01:41:26.640
use the example for teams. How
many of your guys do I want?

1064
01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:29.960
How many of my guys do you
want? You could do the same thing

1065
01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:34.640
with coaches to a certain extent.
If you're an athletic director and your coach

1066
01:41:34.720 --> 01:41:39.239
abruptly leaves, are you making that
phone call? Forget the age for a

1067
01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:42.960
minute, Okay, are you making
the phone call? The answer to that

1068
01:41:43.079 --> 01:41:47.359
is probably no. But he's at
eighteen seventeen is Luke Fickle. I think

1069
01:41:47.399 --> 01:41:54.399
he's a really good coach. I
have no problem with that. A guy

1070
01:41:54.479 --> 01:41:59.199
you here in our six o'clock open
when we begin Exes and Bros. Every

1071
01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:02.880
Monday through Friday six to nine.
Mike Gundhy is at fifteen, even though

1072
01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:04.880
they're not in the Big ten.
I just wanted to give you that because

1073
01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:16.680
he's part of the Open. The
next Big ten team Penn State James Franklin,

1074
01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:26.239
that's ridiculous. Sorry. I don't
think he's a top eleven coach.

1075
01:42:27.319 --> 01:42:30.520
No way, can't beat Michigan,
can't beat Ohio State. For the most

1076
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:38.000
part, I know he has he's
had success, but I'll bet you most

1077
01:42:38.000 --> 01:42:45.720
people at Happy Valley wouldn't mind them
moving on. You think James Franklin is

1078
01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:56.279
better than Lane Kiffin, I don't. I think Josh Heipel's a really good

1079
01:42:56.319 --> 01:43:01.760
coach at Tennessee. I think Matt
Campbell's really good at I was, Marcus

1080
01:43:01.800 --> 01:43:05.239
Freeman's a good recruiter. I don't
think he's a really good in game coach.

1081
01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:14.880
And yet they have James Franklin above
all those guys. Dan Lanning in

1082
01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:18.680
Oregon. They're going to be in
the Big Ten next year. They've got

1083
01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:24.319
him at number nine, all right. Caitlin de Boorr, who made it

1084
01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:28.960
to the National championship last year,
is at seven. I'll tell you the

1085
01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:32.640
guy who I really really like,
and they like him too. They probably

1086
01:43:32.640 --> 01:43:39.079
don't like him as much as I
do. Kyle Whittingham Utah. I think

1087
01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:45.199
that dude is really good, and
I think he's better than number six ranking.

1088
01:43:46.920 --> 01:43:49.720
I'd probably take him over Dabos Sweeney. I'd probably take him over Brian

1089
01:43:49.840 --> 01:43:56.199
Kelly. The last Big Ten coach
you're waiting to hear about is Ryan Day.

1090
01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:01.319
He's number two. If Nick Saban
were still around, he wouldn't be

1091
01:44:02.000 --> 01:44:05.000
He'd probably be at three according to
these, but he's at number two.

1092
01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:17.680
Ohio State couldn't beat Michigan for a
third straight season, missed out on the

1093
01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:25.279
College Football Playoff. But this dude
can recruit. He kills it on the

1094
01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:30.199
recruiting trail. And yes, there
are times when you watch him in game

1095
01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:38.600
you think what are you doing?
No way? Why? That's because we

1096
01:44:38.760 --> 01:44:43.399
don't watch them every single game.
I think he's a very good coach.

1097
01:44:43.640 --> 01:44:45.920
Go I think he's number two,
Probably not, but I think he's a

1098
01:44:45.960 --> 01:44:49.600
top five coach because it's more than
just in game stuff. I think the

1099
01:44:49.640 --> 01:44:55.079
in game is the most important thing, but it's more than just in game.

1100
01:44:55.399 --> 01:44:57.640
Number one. You know who it
is. It's Kirby Smart and that

1101
01:44:57.720 --> 01:45:01.920
makes sense. Again, if Nick
Saban were around, Kirby Smart would not

1102
01:45:02.000 --> 01:45:05.520
be number one. It'd be Nick
Saban, and rightfully so, not just

1103
01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:10.000
because of all the championships he's won, but because of how he recruits,

1104
01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:13.800
who he sends to the NFL,
what he does for college football, all

1105
01:45:13.960 --> 01:45:16.880
that. I meant to get to
that a couple of days ago, we

1106
01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:19.920
didn't have time to do it,
and we finally were able to get it.

1107
01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:25.640
Unfortunately, we don't have a lot
of time for your thoughts on something

1108
01:45:25.760 --> 01:45:28.880
like that, but we're always welcome
a text that we can get to and

1109
01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:31.960
bring up at a different time.
We don't have to talk about whatever Ben

1110
01:45:32.039 --> 01:45:36.439
and I have decided where the program
goes. We're not like that on X's

1111
01:45:36.479 --> 01:45:42.560
and Bros. Anything that's on your
mind, anything you think is important,

1112
01:45:42.600 --> 01:45:46.680
anything that you want to discuss.
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1113
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1114
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1115
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1116
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the Michigan Regents, that they are
going to sell booze at the Big House.

1117
01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:20.520
It was approved by the Board of
Regents on Thursday. You're going to

1118
01:46:20.600 --> 01:46:27.359
see the ability to drink spirits.
It's going to have a Class C liquor

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license. So will Chrysler Center.
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1122
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much, but you'll have a chance
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1123
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the Big House. Things are.
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