Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and
laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go
out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think
this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from
yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You
play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's
a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care
if you don't have any witch. You go play to win. When you
start telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out because the matter that's
right. It is six h two here on this Friday, June the fourteenth,
Dennis fitting an inn for Matt Shepherd on Axis and Bros. It's great
to be here on the Michigan Sports Network. I'm pinch hitting, I think,
but the six to seventh time that I've been able to put this headset
on and talk into the mic along with the ben who's producing, and take
you into the weekend. Most of the times it has been on a Friday,
and you know Fridays. Not to get too repetitive of what I say,
but I don't like everyone. Most of everyone, it's my favorite day
of the week. And so here we go heading into a Father's Day weekend.
That's gonna be one of the themes today. I'm gonna get to some
sweeps here in this first segment. And if you are a football fan,
I am looking ahead to the seven o'clock hour and I am going to zero
in on the NFC North, and I'm thinking about the Lions, and I'm
thinking about the Packers. And I will ask you I found filling in a
few times that not everyone out there is a Detroit Lions fan. But it
feels like if you're not a Detroit Lions fan and you're listening, you're a
Green Bay Packers fan or a Chicago Bears fan, which works nicely if you
want to talk about the NFC North. But the Lions are the champs,
and we'll just see how nervous, how scared you are about the Green Bay
Packers for this upcoming season for the Lions. Maybe you're just sitting out there
with your chest out and you're thinking, no, I think that's actually where
the majority of the right lying fans or at. But we'll get to that
coming up. I I'll get to it. Give you my thoughts on how
scared I am of the packers in an hour from right now. But you
know, heading into this Father's Day, I also wanted to ask the folks
out there if you think back, sometimes dads are funny. You know,
they've they've got You can go on the internet and are you they I know
because I got a book myself over the last few years of you know,
Father's Day saying, you know Father's Day, you know your dad will have
these, you know, silly things that he say. Well, we all
do those, so we all get into there and and and have our own
sayings. But if you had any special one that you think that the audience
would like, I would like to hear from you on that. This morning,
I'll give you an example. We know the US Open is going on.
I know shep was out at the golf course. I was just listening
to a huge talk about eating lobsters, getting in line and sounded like he
was out at the golf course worse as well, out there in West Michigan.
And whenever I would play golf and I would get mad, my dad
would say, Dennis, what I tell you about getting mad? You are
not good enough get mad, and which would kind of make me mad.
So I had to play with an even keel. You know, you play
with people, get upset. It's a frustrating game. But he repeatedly.
And now that I was thinking about, what was What did my own dad
say over the years that would be interesting or funny. Most of them had
to do with golf, but that was the one that actually and I still
think about that one whenever I get out there and hit a good shot that
I'm sitting out there perfectly, and then I just, you know, kick
one really bad. I say, you know, it's not gonna be mad.
I'm not good enough. I am not good enough to be bad.
Now you know how good I would have to be before I would get mad.
You know, we never got to that point. I don't play that
often, so it still fits to this day. I'm not good enough to
get mad playing golf. It's my father's day. Twenty twenty four, saying
to you, if you're a golfer, if you've got one of those,
you can get in on that. I want to get to what happened last
night in sports, and I watched the majority of Game three of the Stanley
Cup Finals up there in Edmonton and Florida hangs on. They went at four
to three over Edmonton. So the Florida Panthers are one went away from their
first Stanley Cup ever. Now they're in position to sweep Edmonton as they're up
three to go. And as you probably know, the Celtics tonight can close
out the Dallas Mavericks in Big d and they can sweep and it happens.
But it has not happened in the both NHL and NBA playoffs where the finals
has been swept since nineteen ninety five, so it has been a while where
we had twenty four twenty nine years it has been. And it was the
Rockets on the NBA side taking down the Magic and then it was the Devils
and Marty Broduor taking down the Detroit Red Wings, and it just for me
made me think when they finally punched through in won the Stanley Cup in ninety
seven, it was a forty two year old drought. If you're not old
enough to remember, the Red Wings were considered to be a gigantic jinx.
They kind of like people look at the there's a lot of teams, teams
that don't win, you know. For the it was the Cubs and the
Red Sox, and in baseball for the longest time until they ended it.
But it was the Red Wings like the leafs. Like now people looked at
the Toronto maple leafs and you know they do seem cursed. But for the
Red Wings, it was like that exercise the ghosts, and they did it
forty two years. They were able to do it in ninety seven when they
got through, but in ninety five when they made the finals, you know,
you're thinking this is gonna be it. And it's funny the things that
you remember in sports. But I can remember on that opening night, getting
ready to play the Red Wings and the Devils and the ninety five Stanley Cup
Finals. I had a car with no air conditioning. On a day like
today, it seemed like the maybe there was a strike that pushed the season
backs, and it seemed like it was even further into June than right now,
but I don't know, maybe not, but maybe the point is is
that I was drying in my little car with no AC over to my friend's
house, and you know, I had the radio blasting on some you know,
you'd think music with no sports talk like you know right now, and
I was just getting pumped, you know, for that game. And you
know, that's like my entire memory of that series, the drive over to
my friend's house and for the next I wasn't the next twenty five years,
but certainly for the next ten years, getting together with my friends for the
for the playoffs, and for sure the Stanley Cup finals and you know the
Red Wings then, you know, winning in ninety seven, ninety eight,
coming back in two thousand and two, doing it in two thousand and eight,
and you know, sweeps, if it's your team you're here, a
Florida Panther team, Florida Panther or a Boston Celtic fan, you know,
you're you're fine, You're happy with a sweep. You just want to get
it done. If you are who else would be If you're gambled, if
you battle the Florida Panthers or the Boston Celtics to win, you know you
don't want to have a good series, but everyone else, and I think
it's the majority of us. You know, it's a letdown. What does
everyone say if you're not betting, or if you're not a fan of that
team, you just want to see a good series. Oh when people ask
me, who do I want to see? I want to see a game
seven. I want to see drama. I want something to talk about on
the radio. Well, we're not getting that. We're just getting two teams
that are ready to They've got the brooms poised and they're ready to just put
their opponent into the bin. We'll get to what else happened yesterday in sports
and get you ready for this weekend. On this Father'sday weekend, I'm Dennis
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Dennis, fitting in for Matt Shephard head into this Father's Day weekend.
I was looking at the weather report and I like it when they put emoji's
out there, and for this weekend, it looks pretty good. They had
the emoji with the dude with the the sunglasses, you know, and even
though it was going to be hot, pretty good. But then on Monday
they had the frowning and then the other, I don't know, exasperated emoji
guy and it said muggy muggy starting on Monday. Nobody likes a muggy day.
Hot. You're okay, but nobody's out there, you know, because
you can say, well, I like this, you know, I'm going
to the beach, but nobody likes muggy. So but We don't have to
worry about that until Monday. All right. We're looking back to what has
happened in sports yesterday and getting you ready for the weekend. I've got the
question out there for you with Father's Day, and we're looking for your favorite
saying from your father. If you've got a good one that you think the
audience would like, you can jump in on that. Of course, you
know you're a sports fan. I don't know you like football. You want
to get into that right away. I will be talking about the Lions and
the Packers and the Bears, and I'm gonna put the mix in there with
the Vikings. Why not with the NFC North. How scared you are as
a Lions fan of the Green Bay Packers. We'll get to that coming up
at seven oh one. I was looking back to last night with Florida uh
beating Edmonton four to three and pulling within one game away from winning their first
Stanley Cup. And they have the three oh series lead, and both in
the NBA and NHL we have three oh series lead, which made me,
you know, think about sweep saying, you know, it's it's just watching
Kyrie Irving from the MAVs saying, yeah, it's just about pride. It's
just about pride now, and you know it's demoralizing even as a fan.
I was thinking as I was watching the game last night, the hockey game.
Edmonton is such a we would say hockey hotbed. I mean, they
love their hockey. If you told me that per capita, that the folks
in Edmonton liked hockey more than anyone else in the world, you know,
you wouldn't get any pushback from me. You know, there's probably a lot
of people in Canada and say, now we're but Edmonton's right there, especially
with the success that they've had over the years and everything else. But and
we used to always joke about, oh, you'll get a great sheet of
ice up there. You know, it's cold and and and all of that,
and I have to deal with uh, you know, you always are
thinking about that it's gonna be good that way. But watching the you know,
the anthem and the crowd just like let's go Oilers and all of that,
I was thinking about. I was holding you know, you wait the
whole time and you're you know, wanting to win the Stanley Cup. How
excited would you be to go to a game four on what's Saturday night.
If you're an Edmonton Oilers fan, when you're down three to zero and you
have to be you know you just love hockey, You're gonna go, hey,
it's the Stanley Cup Finals. You start playing like the things. You
know, stranger things can happen. But when you get to these stranger things
can happen, not so much. In in Stanley Cup Finals history, there
have been twenty eight teams that have been up three to oh, and twenty
seven out of twenty eight times, the a team that's been up three to
oh has one. So you pull out the emojii's saying oh. So you
say there's a chance. There is a chance. Toronto took down the Detroit
Red Wings in nineteen forty two back from a three deficit. So that's where
we sit, Ben, Are you ready to do you do you think that
the Edmonton Oilers, as we go back to the studio, would you predict
that since that they would be the first team to come back from a three
oh series late since nineteen forty two? I don't think they have it.
Yeah, I don't either. If there's something fluky all one goal games,
you know, a discrepancy like on the power play or something something that you
would pull in, like there's a major injury to Bobrasky got hurt last night
and you would say, oh, I don't know, you can get a
backup goal and whatever. But there's none of that Florida. Every time you
watch them, they look better and as much as uh, you know,
you watch the playoffs over the years, and in particular the Stanley Cup finals,
you uh, you watch and so many times you know, you'll you'll
watch a game and this is what it's a great thing about hockey. It's
also one of the frustrating things about hockey. You'll watch and there it seems
like it comes down to a puck bounce here, a post, there,
a deflection, and it's like, is that it I mean, but that's
not what it is with Florida. I mean, the Oilers scored first,
uh yesterday, I'm sorry, the pan scored a goal late in the first
but then the Oilers tied it up. But then there was the floodgates and
there was no like a bounce here, a bounce there. The Panthers they
scored three goals in just over six minutes, and you know, there was
a two to one one. There's you know, a guy beating the oiler
defenseman in the back of the night and putting it out to Tarasinko who's sitting
in there right all alone in the slot, right in front of the goaltender
Skinner who made the bad play and back of the goal. The point is
is that it was Florida looked like they were in the regular season, playing
one of the worst teams in the NHL, not a Stanley Cup Finals.
When they were on a roll, right, there was no thing about,
oh a bounce here, a bounce there. You could have talked about that
in the first period, and they were talking about that after twenty minutes,
but not after forty minutes. It was a very impressive display by Florida.
You know, the sweeps. I was just thinking about in Detroit sports history,
and I mentioned the Red Wings, you know, getting swept by the
Devils in ninety five. If you then think about the Red Wings history,
they went out when they finally did win it over the Flyers, what happened.
They swept them. They swept the Flyers in ninety seven, and then
when they came back in one back to back in ninety seven and ninety eight.
In ninety eight they beat the Capitals. That was also a sweep.
So the first two times in forty two years when they they broke the the
Hecks or the Stanley Cup drought, the Red Wings were able to get sweeps
in the Stanley Cup finals. So then I was thinking about the Pistons.
The Pistons, when you think about sweeps, the last three times that they
have been in the playoffs, they have been the Bucks did it, the
Calves, and I don't know who the other one was in there, probably
Milwaukee again swept out of the playoffs. But if you think about the Pistons
when they finally won the NBA championship in eighty eight eighty nine, they took
on the Lakers, and what happened in that series. The Pistons swept the
Lakers. That's what happened. So you know, the sweeps on one side,
the sweeps on the other. I say finally, because the Pistons the
year before had taken on the Lakers and they were in a situation to beat
La but they lost that game six. With the tough fowl. I believe
that was the game that Isaiah had twenty five in the first quarter, but
you know went down with the hook shot with Kareem Lambert was like the plane
of vertic Cavilli. Everything that you would teach as a coach about how to
play defense in the post, there was Lambert, and yet they called him
for the Phantom File. But the Pistons came back and they were and then
the year before it was the ceth Diics. But then they finally did get
the sweep to get their first NBA Finals. Coming up next one of the
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about. Well, the Detroit Tigers salvage a game yesterday afternoon, beating the
National seven to two. Tigers has lost five to six, so they get
back on the plus side of things, Except when you're looking at the overall
record, there's still two games under five hundred. They beat the National seven
to two yesterday. Hey, it is Dennis Fifthion here on Axes and Bros.
And the Michigan Sports Network. Florida. They are one game away from
winning their first ever Stanley Cup as they beat Edmonton in Edmonton last night by
a final of four to three. All right, we're going to talk about
the Lions coming up at seven oh one, and just how much do the
Green Bay Packers scare? You want you to think about that question? I
am going to answer it coming up at seven oh one. I have the
question out there for you, and this is this is perfect to use the
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Father's Day weekend. Something your dad would say, a funny, a serious,
something that has stayed with you in sports or otherwise. You can text
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Sports radio to twenty one thousand, give me that favorite dad saying in this
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We've had open topics out there for you. I'm going to get to what
a big time baseball stats guy had to say this week. And his name
is Bill James. And if you're a baseball fan, stat driven a person
you'll know the name Bill James. Bill James put a tweet out the notion
that no one except a small child should get a foul ball is a very
recent phenomenon. Ten years ago. James says, an adult could catch a
foul ball and nobody would say anything about it. Now I saw that.
Let me first ask Ben Zost, who's producing Ben, have you ever caught
a ball at a baseball game. I have not. That would be exciting,
but no, it would be exciting. It's something that we all think
about or maybe dream about. I never have either, but I have seen,
buddy of it. It's happened around me, and there is no doubt
that you can be affected. Most of the time when you see, especially
when online, you'll see the like adult like pushing a kid out of the
way. Nobody. We're not talking about anything like that. But what James
is saying is that even if you are there and you catch the ball,
then you're supposed to immediately find a child in your vicinity and you're supposed to
hand the ball to. Now. I do agree that there feels like there
is a little pressure to do that if you're an adult at a game.
I don't think that this is some recent phenomenon. If he wanted to say,
I don't know, twenty five years ago, an adult could catch a
ball and nobody would say anything about it, I'd buy it. But you
know, ten years ago, so that would be my quibble with what he
has to say about that. But I've always you know, since I have
never caught a foul ball or any kind of baseball at a game. And
you know, I've got kids at home and they're older now, but and
the you know, nephew and nieces. I could very easily have seen myself
at a baseball game as a fan if I caught my first foul ball ever
and people are pressuring me, were looking at me like, hey, you're
going to give that ball up? I was thinking, you know, no,
I'm going to How about I'm going to take this home and I'm going
to give it to my kid or I am going to actually give it to
somebody in my family. I'm not going to be pressured by you. So
I do know that that's out there, that you know, that feeling that
you should be giving the ball away. You know, a long time ago,
I've got one of the best seats I ever got, were just given
to me randomly on a Sunday, somebody called and said, hey, you
want to go to the Tigers game? Pre tickets would drive you there and
everything else. And you know why not. I was in college and I
remember going to this game. We went to the guy's house and not only
did he have the tickets and was he driving us to the game. He's
like he had he had a family outing over the weekend. He said,
Hey, there's a cooler full of drinks in there before we go. You
guys help yourself. So not only are we getting free tickets and free parking
and everything else, Hey here's a cooler full of drinks. The point of
this story is is that the tickets were great. And the guy who I'll
never forget his name, his name was Ace. I don't know that,
you know, it had to be a nickname, but didn't ask too much
about that. The guy's names Ace. His tickets were great. Were sitting
a couple of rows behind the Tigers dugout, and this was Tiger Stadium,
so it was back in the day. But the that is foul ball territory
obviously, right, you know you're sitting here, but I can recall sitting
there and seeing the foul ball get hit up in the air, you know
whatever. It was fifty sixty feet and it's coming down right at me,
but it just goes like two or three seats down and who catches it but
Ace, who's right there. And I was never happier for anybody to catch
a foul ball that I barely knew then Ace as give me the tickets all
the things that I talked about. So I'm like, hey, that's great,
great job Ace, you know, high five and while having our laughs
and so there it is. That's not a really big deal. But later
in the game, almost the exact same thing happens. You know, the
foul ball's coming. Like I'm thinking, oh, this one's coming right for
me, I'm getting this one. But at the last second I got it's
just you know, streams over and who catches it. But Ace again,
two foul balls in the same game. I was reminded about a month ago.
It was it was a Mariners game. There was a guy down the
left field line. Just he wasn't in home run territory, just in foul
territory, but way down the line there. So it was not just some
lazy foul ball behind the dugout like I'm talking about. But this guy caught
back to back foul ball almost home runs. And they were like, what
are the odds of this? And somebody was like the very you know,
winning the lottery type of odds. There not so much for Ace. But
you know, that was my story with a foul ball. I was close
but the guy that I wanted to see catch it, he caught too.
The kicker on that was that when Ace caught his second foul ball, he
was so happy that he bought a round of hot dogs for everyone that was
with him there. So it was a hell of a day for Ace and
it was also a very memorable day for me. There was also one time
where a home run ball. I was in the overhang at Tiger Stadium with
my nephew who's four years old. Some I'm four or five years old,
and there might have only been another three or four people up there on the
upper deck in this day game at Tiger Stadium. But I'm reminded a lot
about this particular event by two things that happened. One, Bobby Bonilla was
playing for the Baltimore Orioles, and every year Bobby Bonia there's a Bobby Bonia
Day. Benia signed a contract, a I don't know, twenty five year
contract where he gets a million dollars every year, and everybody's like, well,
that such a great contract. It's fun. But I'm always reminded because
Bobby Bonilla slams a home run into the right field upper deck with me and
my nephew sitting there, and if I would have just stood up, I
think it would have hit me right in ahead. But it was hit directly
at me, a home run ball into the upper deck. And what happened.
I did panic a little bit. You know, when one's hit right
at you and it's a home run, it's like and nobody else is around.
I'm like, this is it. And I remember my nephew, you
know, he's four years old. He's like, we're going to catch a
baseball. I want a baseball. I'm like, oh, yeah, we're
gonna catch one. I'm lying to him. But then here it is.
It's coming right at me. I panicked a little bit, and you know,
I'm grabbing the kid and I went down a mistake a row or two,
and it ends up just clearing my hand and you know, karm's over
like fifteen feet. And the long story short is this kid beats me to
the ball by like a foot and I don't get it. And so that
part was disappointing. Disappointing that I didn't just catch it. But in the
years after, I will hear It's not once every year, but it's it's,
you know, once every couple of years. I'll be just watching a
baseball game and the analysts will say, you know, the the toughest ball
to catch is one that's right at you. And I always say, you
know what he is exactly right. I know what he's talking about, because
that bonea ball was coming right at me. That's not really the point of
this. This was Bill James saying that there's a notion that every small child
should get a foul ball is a recent phenomenon. I would also add into
that if you go to a game and you're sitting in the outfield and the
opponents hit a home run, you are pressured at Coomerica to throw that ball
back. So and if I am judging the ranges of hey, you catch
a lazy foul ball like ace, like right where the dugout was, this
is pretty easy catch. I mean he could have just had his hand out.
Pretty easy catch a home run ball, you know, especially if you
catch it and this thing is, you know, coming at you and at
a one hundred and five miles an hour or whatever it is exit velocity,
and you can reach up and snag one, and it's for the opponent.
And I've got one hundred people in my section saying throw it back. I'm
feeling like telling everybody to go jump on a leg. But definitely is that
pressure throw it back. I would not throw it back. I would more
likely leave the section because people would be like, you know, I don't
know about harassing, but definitely jeering for me to enchanting for me to throw
it back. But I would not. I don't think I would succumb to
the pressure of throwing the ball back. But oftentimes people do succumb to the
pressure to throw it back. Man, and everybody cheers woo, and then
you know you're a hero for a second. But I don't know if that's
worth it or not when you're doing that to throw it back. Old Bill
James speaking of Bill James, for the longest time, when somebody I always
had my own idea about when somebody is that, who's the greatest baseball player
of all time? You know, I do my work and think about all
the different stats and everything else. This is before guys like Bill James,
and you know there was wins abovely above replacement and all these things, and
you know, I'd say, Willie Mays, they're all the number crunching babe.
Ruth in there, Hank Aaron, and then these guys started ranking all
of different players. Well well, James and however he did it. I
always liked his list and and James came up with and he also would put
Egro league players in the in the mix too. And then this year you
probably know, I don't know last month or the month before, they included
the statistics from the Negro leagues and now with Major League Baseball, and some
people were up in arms that the Ty Cobb Society did not like it because
Cobb had the highest batting average, and then he was supplanted by Josh Gibson.
But you know, James had included the players you know long before,
you know, years ago, and he did not have Willie Mays as the
number one baseball player. He had Babe Ruth. And I didn't think there
was much, you know, I wasn't gonna argue too much about that because
they don't. Ruth is I think an easy one to go and put up
there. But his I think he did the ten. This could have even
been twenty years ago. They did it with his statistics talking about Bill James,
but he put Babe Ruth one. Hannis Wagner two again, you know
that I think about baseball cards, that's like the most valuable one, the
honest Wagner card. And Willie May's at three. All right, there's my
guy, and then four was Oscar Charleston, and then five ty Cop and
I was like, what who Oscar Charleston. So even when it comes down
to Negro League players, Josh Gibson I knew who he was. Of course,
Satcho Page, you know, you know the names, and if you're
the Tigers fan, the Detroit Stars, Turkey Sterns, you know you'd know
that name. But I didn't know the name of Oscar Charleston. So I
can recall having to look and sing just some great center fielder and he went
on to be an equally successful manager. I don't know if James put that
into the mix, but he had Oscar Charleston above Ty Cob. I just
have always thought out, if I got a hundred bayall guys, people that
were really into the history of the game, stats, wore Baseball Reference of
anything, fan graft guy, all one hundred of them, and put them
all together, how many would have put Oscar Charleston anywhere close to a top
five player of all time in Major League Baseball. Well, Bill James would
and he did, and he for those that are interested rounding out the top
five man Old Ted Williams, the great pitcher, Walter Johnson, Josh Gibson
who I mentioned, and then Stan Usual at ten. But I always thought
that was intriguing that that was his. You know, everybody's got their their
thing, like this is the guy I'm standing for, Bill James. He
puts Charleston. I always wonder. I haven't researched this. I don't know
where Bill James is from, and I think Charleston played it the majority of
his baseball and he played in a lot of different places. But I think
Indy and I wonder if there's some kind of connection and if I would guess
now, you'd like to think that everybody is just if you're if you're trying
to rank players, and certainly if you're somebody like James who does it and
has a numbers based you know, that's how he's a formula based that he
is trying to remove any bias and he is just good. You know,
he is trying to guide baseball fans, you know, for the greatest players
of all time using a formula. But I have a suspicion that not that
I don't know if he tweaked his formula with it, that that somehow Charleston
has a connect to James, whether somehow, I guess would be that he
lived by him some way. That's it. I we're all suspicious when anybody's
doing any ranking. He's like, Oh, no, you're just a Lions
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