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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 want to

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go out there and get embarrassed on
Monday night football fund everybody. I think

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that at 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. Get
played a win, and I don't care

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

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telling me it doesn't matter. There
were time, get out for the matters,

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right, all right? Good morning, everybody, Good morning Michigan.

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Dennis fit the in with you here
on x'es and bros. In for Matt

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Shepherd on the Michigan Sports Network and
listening to my voice for the first time,

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say what's going on? Don't panic? Chef's just taking the day off.

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And I filled in with him for
him a few times. I can

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now say this summer, because it
is officially summer and we're ready to go

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and lift off this weekend. Lot
of sneaky things going on in sports that

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you can find yourself interested in,
and guess what we're going to talk about

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all of them. But the big
thing that is looming over sports on this

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Monday is the Game seven tonight between
the Oilers and the Panthers in the Stanley

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Cup Final. Now you just say
game seven and it gets oh, you

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know, people are getting interested when
you hear that. And then you get

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it into the finals, and you
get into the Stanley Cup Finals, and

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then you add in the history of
what is at stake here with the Edmonton

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Oilers who were done and buried in
down three in good Night and they were

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already couldn't blame them, getting ready
to engrave the Stanley Cup, getting all

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the names out for the Panthers and
everything else. But as you probably know

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by now, this thing is completely
flipped and Edmonton is I say, not

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just come back, that's the story. They've come back, but they've just

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pounced and obliterated the Panthers on the
way to set up this showdown tonight down

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in South Florida. But it just
makes you think of all kinds of different

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things when it comes to sports in
a Game seven, when it's like this,

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a lot of history, and then
you start thinking about your own teams

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when they've been in a spot like
this. And we'll get to all of

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that. In fact, coming up
at seven oh one, I will be

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recounting my own favorite Game seven.
I will go back and give you my

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favorite Game seven moment, and I'll
be asking you that as well as the

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question of the day. You're on
x'es and bros. Your favorite Game seven

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or your favorite Game seven moment.
Of course, you can in this six

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o'clock hour, jump right in across
Michigan and answer that question. And from

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my experience of six or seven shows
now that the six o'clock hour is the

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very best hour to get in.
So if you've ever wondered, like heck,

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man, I want I want to
talk some Game seven. I'll talk

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some hockey. I want I talk
of Game seven in baseball or basketball,

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that's the way it's done. So
if you want to jump in on that,

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that big question of today coming up
in less than an hour from right

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now, I'll be answering that.
You know the rest of what's going on

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in sports as we close down June. It always when you start July you

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get the free agency. So it's
something to keep in mind. So hockey

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is going to end tonight one way
or the other. I could get into

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some overtime situation. Whoa Game seven
overtime could get into a situation like that,

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But it will end at some point
tonight or this morning, and then

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free agency cranks right back up a
week from today in the NHL. So

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that'll perk yourself up if you're an
NHL fan, certainly a Red Wings fan

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thinking about a free agency. We
will talk with the color analyst from the

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Detroit Red Wings coming up in just
about an hour from a right now.

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Paul Woods is his name, longtime
color analyst for the Red Wings former captain

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of the Wing Wheelers. Also in
the NBA. The NBA has a big

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week and the Pistons they are included
in the NBA, but they not if

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they have I don't know if it's
the biggest week. But they have a

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lot of new things happening, a
new GM, they're in search of a

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new coach. They've got a top
five pick number five, so it's a

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lot of things. That is a
big week for the Pistons. And with

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the NBA the draft will be Wednesday
and then free agency on Sunday, so

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that's big, you know, and
you've got a lot of cap room if

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you're the Pistons, around sixty million
I say that, and you know you

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can go on and get a big, big time player, maybe just one,

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but you know, nobody's taken one
gigantic player is not taking sixty million

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for the Pistons. The big ones
will be going somewhere else. So but

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they've they've got some money there and
they're you know, obviously some players out

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there. We'll see what they are
able to do when it comes down to

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that. Some of the other thing
that you know, you're a little neat

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I don't know if they're neat sports
or needs interest things that are talked about

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dominating sports talk across Michigan. But
over the weekend you had you had golf

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the Travelers and Scottie Scheffler won it
in a playoff, but you had six

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protesters storming the green on the final
hole and it was pretty wild. I

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wasn't watching that live, but if
you're just sitting back, I guess gott

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to tip my hat to security.
I don't notice, you know, I

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don't notice security at golf events.
But there were you know, like you

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said, six protesters and all of
them I don't know, a smoke bombs

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or whatever kind of colored powder whatever
they had. You know, they they

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ripped up their messed up the green
a little bit and they had to come

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right back on the playoff and they
had to move the hole, and you

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know they were still they tried to, you know, do what they could

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do with the green there. But
I'll just give it up to security that

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was able to get those of you
know, six protesters. It was weird.

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You know, come they're running through
the sand trafts. The next thing

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you know, you got security running
out of the green. It was a

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wild scene and uh, nobody got
hurt. And you know, when you

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think about a tournament and then could
they have changed a hole or anything else

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that went along with that, But
that was just a that you know,

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we've seen protests just see people running
out the fields, but you know the

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you know, drunk idiots a lot
of times. And yeah, we have

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seen some protesters, but here were
a half dozen of them running out there,

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and uh, it was pretty wild
scene. Meanwhile, well we have

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a Game seven in the Stanley Cup
Finals. We've got a Game three.

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It doesn't quite have the ring of
Game seven a game three, but there's

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only three games in the College World
Series and we are going to a game

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three with Tennessee and Texas A and
M. So that's some drama. That's

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pretty cool there. And you did
have Clark and Reese yesterday playing. If

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you keeping tabs on the WNBA,
these are the two that are gonna I

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don't know further the interest of course
in the WNBA. And they squared off.

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We'll get this. Some Tigers they
pound the White Sox and they're now

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they bring in the Phillies. So
you've got the worst case situation, worst

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team and now the best team coming
in the extremes for the Tigers, but

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coming up straight ahead. Just how
big of a deal is this comeback that

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the Oilers are on the precipice of
Will get to that straight ahead with your

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questions, your comments, your feedback. Dennis fifthean in for Matt Sheppard.

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it's fit then for Matt Shepherd is
we ask you and we dive into it,

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just how big of a deal is
coming back from an three deficit,

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which the oilers have done. And
I have this Game seven coming up tonight.

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You can jump in on that.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on

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it. It involves the question of
the day that I'll be answering coming up

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at the seven oh one, your
favorite Game seven or your favorite Game seven

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a moment, But we do have
this Game seven coming up here tonight,

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and just how big of a deal
is it now if we're just being technical

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and at the start we will be
technical that in the final. So it's

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never been done in the NBA coming
back from three. It's only been done

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once in baseball history, and that
was the Red Sox over the Yankees.

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It has been done more than once
in the NHL, and in fact it

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has been done. Were we at
four times, four comeback winners, But

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it's only been done once. And
the Stanley Cup Finals back in nineteen forty

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two, the Leafs came back and
beat the Red Wings. That's been over

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eighty years. Now does it matter
if it's the Stanley Cup Finals or if

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it's the playoffs? Yet matters?
I mean it's the biggest stage, so

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that does matter. So if somebody's
saying, well why is everybody buzzing about

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this the game, Well, it's
something that could happen tonight if Edmonton wins

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four games. It hasn't been done
in eighty two years. That's why it's

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a big deal that it was against
the Red Wings and Jack Adams and sid

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Abel old bootnse for the Red Wings
that you know, it does have the

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local flavor back in forty two.
But that's why it's a big deal.

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There have been two hundred and ten
teams that have been down three in NHL

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playoff history and we have four comeback
winners. The forty two Leafs, these

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seventy five Islanders did it against the
Penguins, and then two more recent the

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Flyers did it in twenty ten,
and then four year later the Kings did

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it in twenty fourteen. That's it. Forty two Leafs, seventy five Islanders,

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ten Leafs, fourteen Kings. That
is it. So that's why it's

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a big deal. And it said
there have been zero in the NBA.

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But last year the Celtics were down
three to the Heat and they forced the

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game seven. Sing a game seven
is a big deal. You get where

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this is momentum. And I thought
Boston was going to win last year and

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they didn't. But it's it's so
it's never been done in the NBA and

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just once in baseball, and because
it's it's the finals, this would be

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the biggest in the biggest comeback in
in hockey history, really in in hockey,

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baseball and basketball history, because it
is the finals. Biggest sense if

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you say, well, what about
the leaves, this is bigger. You

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know, it's a different game,
they have to play more series, whatever

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else. However, you I would
say it's bigger now eighty two years later,

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with all due respect to the forty
two leaves. So that that's it.

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Although if the Red Sox because of
the rivalry between the Yankees and the

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Red Sox, and you may hate
the Yankees in the Red Sox rivalry,

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it is it gets When it was
happening, it was really shoved down the

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rest of America's throat to the to
almost a nauseating situation that you know,

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you just couldn't every other game everybody
talking, but you know, if you're

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able to take a step back from
that or hold your nose or whatever else,

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you know, that was it had
never happened in baseball, and you

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know, and there we were,
and then it did happen, and it

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was pretty compelling, and that's it. You know, you you spend enough

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time following sports and it was just
like over this weekend, Now the Tigers,

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they took two of three from the
White Sox. Now the White Sox

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are pitiful, They're the worst team
in baseball. So you know, you

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know, feel like it's a disappointment
because it didn't sweep the worst team in

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the majors. But if you follow
enough baseball, you know how difficult it

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is. It's difficult to sweep a
team, even the worst team in baseball.

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You follow it enough, you almost
hear that one hundred times during the

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year. That's just tough to sweep
a team. And so you get to

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the highest level in a Stanley Cup
final and you know this is a three

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game sweep to get a three to
zero lead, that it's rare. And

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I just know how I feel when
a team gets down three to zero.

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I look at it and yeah,
it's over, because I do have history

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in my mind, but I just
also feel the the it's a disappointment.

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Also, these guys have to feel
the dejection where they just feel like they

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have absolutely no hope. And I
know that they're like, we just got

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to go out and win the first
shift in first period and then they go

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from there. That's the kind of
way they talk. I guess a fan,

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you could talk like that too,
but you can't help the you know,

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like your your feelings about, well, this thing is just absolutely over.

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But then to see them come back
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after Game four, it's like Man
eight one, you know whatever that was.

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You know, the Mavericks they came
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like forty or fifty points or whatever
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did Boston come back and do?
Then they dropped a hammer on them they

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were at home. The Panthers did
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and then the Oilers forced this Game
seven, and now the momentum is so

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much Edmonton. I would think that
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you know, that's the tough part. You know what history says. I've

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just talked about it for twenty minutes. Less than two percent of a chance.

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If you're just talking about the Stanley
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So if you're looking at the data, it'd be interesting that you know,

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you're driving around Michigan and you're like, am I a data person or

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am I a momentum person? Am
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right brain? Because if you're a
numbers person, a history person, and

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you look at it like that,
you say, the Panthers are going to

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win this game tonight. They're at
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over eighty years, has many able
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you've watched this series, and you've
watched these last three games, the way

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that Edmonton has played, they are
steamrolling the Panthers. Bbrowski, who's this

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brick wall is now a sief and
so now in the defense, and they

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give up the first goal is and
it is like they've got nothing. Their

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heads are down talking about the Panthers. So you can, however you look

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at it. That's the intriguing part
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the ones that don't care about history
here. They don't care about them,

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They don't caring about putting a line
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have Florida as the slight, slight
favorite. Now for me, when I

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look at this thing here, uh
tonight, I can recall there's been two

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game seven since the Red Wings lost
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But I can remember, you know, being down there sifting through all

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the numbers and what they said is
that home heites really doesn't matter in the

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Stanley Cup playoffs until a Game seven, and it really matters in a game

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seven when you're at home in the
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not just talking about being down oh
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sevens. And of course the Red
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that went out the window. So
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things to lean on home ice in
history there. They've got two things,

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a lot of history on their side. I don't know if that makes you

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all of that is there for you. The NBA is fascinating in a lot

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of ways. Now. If you're
a Celtics fan and you know, it's

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been a great season, one other
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it's all great. But the rest
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gets ready for a big week in
the draft coming up on Wednesday, and

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then free agency, which technically for
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start talking, I would guess,
you know, I don't know how much

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they want to, you know,
cross their wires from to Wednesday, but

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after Wednesday in the draft, certainly
by Friday, and they're already have been

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players that like I don't know Maleikue
Monk. He says he's staying with Sacramento.

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Pascal Siakam, who's at the top
of the list of anybody who would

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want one of the big time free
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gonna take the max deal at Indiana. So we've already seen some of that.

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We'll see a lot more of that. Even though we're talking about Sunday

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when it could officially happen, they
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So it's just official coming up on
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about pending free agents and where they're
going, and also the draft on Wednesday.

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But you add in that the Pistons
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they're the worst team in the league, but they you know, that's

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why they have a new GM,
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new coach and they've got a top
pick. Will they have a coach in

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place by Wednesday? I would think
that they would want to do that.

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I would think that Trajan Langdon would
want to bring in a coach that's going

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to have a say and what they're
going to want to do in the draft

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this week. And then of course
with free agency. That's why having it,

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you know, not firing Monte Williams
until last week was a little curious

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that they couldn't get that done before
because if we're just you know, talking

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about the best way to do things, we can all agree that you do

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want to get that coach in before
that. But hey, it is the

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Pistons, and it doesn't mean that
this new era is getting off on the

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wrong foot. But how much of
a benefit of the doubt that they really

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get considering how they've operated over the
past ten fifteen years. Not a whole

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lot you do get. You know, you don't want to just completely throw

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these guys overboard and say, oh
it's this is the same old Pistons under

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Tom Gorris or whatever else. But
that is there for them. Anyways,

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as far as the coaches go,
I think the top guy that if I

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could just pick and say, okay, this one, this seems like the

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best case scenario. This seems like
the best guy. It's Trajan Langdon,

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who was down in the New Orleans
organization. Their assistant head coach, James

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Barrego won two titles with the Spurs, and then he has been the public

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assistant head coach, and so you
work under Popovich, you're with you have

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the connection with Langdon as a Pelican's
assistant, he seemed like he would be

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one option. The t Wolves assistant
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Nori Uh. He's a as a
never of those doesn't matter. But

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he's a funny guy, a lot
of quips, a lot of you know,

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a lot of fun post games.
If he would be in there,

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that doesn't matter for the team on
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You like that where it's gonna be, He's gonna have some fun. Another

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former Pistons assistant is a guy named
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to the NBA Finals this year and
was also with Kid when he was with

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the Bucks. And then there's Jay
be Bickerstaff who's got some previous head coaching

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experience. Those are the ones that
you would like to see one of those

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guys tabbed before Wednesday and the draft. Now, the draft is not all

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that interesting compared to where the draft
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the NBA Draft has been going this
way for a couple of years. Back

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in the day, the NBA Draft
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much fun as the NFL Draft.
I know, you know, if you're

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younger, you could say what are
you talking about? But it was like

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that you had watched ninety percent if
not more, of these players that are

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all going to get taken in the
draft, and you know you've you had

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a good feel about him. Now
you don't have any of that percent of

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the player you have not watched.
And then you add in that this year,

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yeah, the Atlanta Hawks have the
number one pick, but this was

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not the year that you wanted the
number one pick. You add tense.

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This is like having the Hawks in
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Pistons at five, this is like
having the fifteenth pick. So it's

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a light draft. Just how the
experts have looked at it and what they

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say about it. I'd buy that
now when I add the ten picks out

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there, So the Pistons like have
the number fifteenth, number fifteen, even

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though they have number five. It
immediately made me think of you know,

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you can still we might not know, and we might not know for a

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couple of years, but you know, two players pretty recently taken at number

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fifteen in the NBA Draft, Kawhi
Leonard, who went on to win an

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NBA title with Toronto, and then
Giannis the Greek Freak, was taken at

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fifteen by the Buck. So you
know, yeah, it's a light draft

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on paper as we take a look
at it, but you can find guys

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and yeah, I mean you can
go back and start talking about that,

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Well, the Joker was taken to
the second round. That's all true.

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I was just trying to give you
a little feel for it as you head

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into Wednesday. But I looked a
lot at the draft yesterday and this is

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what I think is the best case
scenario for the Pistons. I think this

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draft revolves around the San Antonio Spurs. They won the lottery and they got

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Wemby last year, and he's French
and it just so happens that three of

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the top prospects in the NBA Draft
the French, and so San Antonio wanting

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to surround Wembin Yama with you know, they want to make him happy.

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He he loves France, He's got
connections with these players. I'm thinking that

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they want one, if not two
of these top frenchmen that are going to

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be available in the draft. On
Wednesday. Now that's not a sure thing,

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but it just so happens that the
Pistons is talked about, and you

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probably know they're at number five.
Well, San Antonio has four and eight.

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If one of those Frenchmen fall to
four, maybe the Spurs would want

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to give the Pistons a future number
one to grab the other frenchmen. They

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would. They might be a little
nervous that he might not be there at

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eight. You might roll your eyes
and say that's too much to give up

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for a couple of spots. But
when you add in lottery protection and you

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think about just how wembin Yama was
last year and how how important it would

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be. I don't know how important
it really is to wembin Yama or the

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Spurs organization, but it might be. It's just a thought of mine that

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maybe the Pistons could pick up a
future one by moving from five to eight,

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and the Spurs could go and they
they could potentially get two of these

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top frenchmen, Zachary Orris Archer Hell, he could be number one, Alex

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sar Uh he could be two.
And then who's the other one? Tid

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John Salon? Who you know,
if you're looking you know, the odds,

407
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the odds makers have a Archer and
sar the two Frenchmen you know,

408
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.519
going one two right now. But
could one of those guys fall the forb

409
00:35:55.760 --> 00:36:01.079
easily? Easily it could happen.
And then Salon who's looked at anywhere from

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I don't know ten around around that
area. Well, you know, because

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00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:16.199
of the there's not a lot of
sure things as we take a look at

412
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.440
this, very easily I could see
it. That's that's my thought on the

413
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:29.119
on the Pistons, the possibility of
moving back and with the the spurs right

414
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.480
there now, if you do want
to take a look at it. I

415
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:39.840
also cranked out a bunch of different
mock drafts yesterday and taking a look at

416
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it and from Yahoo to ESPN,
to the Ringer, to Bleacher Report to

417
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:55.320
the Athletic one, two, three, four, five different sources, four

418
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:05.039
of them all have mocked drafted the
Pistons to get the Lithuanian nineteen year old

419
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:15.039
Bousellis Matthias Boucellis, Matthaeus Boussellus.
So that's who the people that cover the

420
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:23.280
Pistons or even league wide, that's
how they think it's going to fall.

421
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:30.119
So boozellis the Lithuanian. I believe
he just grew up in Chicago, though,

422
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:36.880
but I've watched two three minutes of
him playing for the G League Ignite

423
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:45.159
last year, and he's rail thin, he's nineteen. He's not like this

424
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.800
knockdown shoot or anything. But you
know, that's that's the kind of draft

425
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.719
that we're in. That's where it's
at, and that's where the majority of

426
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.360
the experts think that he is going
to fall to the Pistons. Now for

427
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.760
me, and since I don't,
you know, I watched two minutes of

428
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:08.639
Boussellus, I watched a lot more
of college basketball, so I would say,

429
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:13.559
you know, if there was if
Trajan Langdon he says, Hey,

430
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.719
you know, you hadn't watched any
of these French guys. You hadn't watched

431
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:17.159
the Lithuanian. You watch two minutes
of the guy from McKnight, but you've

432
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:22.480
watched a couple of games of college
basketball fifty and who do you pick?

433
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:28.159
I'd say, how about Reed Shepherd, the six' three knockdown shooter from

434
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:34.119
the Kentucky Wildcats. How about him? That would be He's the guy that

435
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:42.199
I am rooting for for the Pistons
to take now. Is there anything that's

436
00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.159
intriguing with the draft? Trying to
set it up for you here on Wednesday

437
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:51.280
after the Pistons and where they might
go. I think there's two names for

438
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.679
me that I'll be watching. Will
I be sitting there all night watching the

439
00:38:55.119 --> 00:39:01.639
NBA Draft? Probably Zach Edy.
Ronto Raptors don't have a first round pick,

440
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:05.320
but Zach Edy, the big man, the two time player of the

441
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:16.079
Year in college basketball from Purdue.
He is Canadian. Toronto would do well

442
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:22.519
by getting Eatie. If if I
was in Canada right now, I'd be

443
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:27.280
pounding the phone line. Let's get
Zach Edie. Let's move up. How

444
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.960
far they have to move up?
That's the question. Last year at this

445
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:34.400
time, if you talked about Zach
Edy being a first round pick, and

446
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.360
he laughed at you don't know.
You don't know basketball. He doesn't do

447
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:39.519
any of the stuff that they're looking
for in the NBA. He doesn't shoot

448
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:44.480
from outside, he's got stone feet, he can't move. But he's answered

449
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:52.039
that kind of criticism with how he
performed last year, moved a little bit

450
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:57.800
better, and then what he's been
able to do in these workouts. He's

451
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.039
moved himself into the first round.
Take it from me. He'll go in

452
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:05.440
the first round. I'm ninety nine
percent sure that that's going to happen.

453
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So Toronto's going to have to move
up how far it's it's interesting and for

454
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:13.039
me Edie, do I think he's
going to take over the league? Would

455
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.280
I take him in the lottery?
No? But do I think he could

456
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:22.239
be a ten minute impact player coming
in at seven four, swat and shot,

457
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:27.440
somebody that could command double teams,
somebody that could develop. It looks

458
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.599
like, you know, he's a
good free throw shooter. His jumper looks

459
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.920
pretty good, you know, and
sometimes when you're seven to four, you

460
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.119
don't have to, you know,
have a step back and you just have

461
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:44.800
to knock him down. And he's
got a pretty good looking stroke already.

462
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.800
I could see that that could be
more than the ten minute impact that I'm

463
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.239
selling there. But he's going to
go, So that's something to keep an

464
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.519
eye on. Then the other one
is not something that I really latched onto

465
00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:00.320
at all in the spring, but
as we get closer to wedness, it

466
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.480
is something to keep an eye on. I guess they do a two day

467
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.280
thing now for the first round.
And second round, and that's Lebron James's

468
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:15.199
son, Bronni. If another team
would take them to try to screw with

469
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.599
Lebron James, or if the Lakers
actually are like you know, you know,

470
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.960
JJ Reddick's coming in here and everything
else. But will Lebronni James,

471
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:29.239
not Lebronni I'm sorry, Bronni actually
go to the Lakers. And that's the

472
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:32.920
intrigue for the second round. But
that's the intrigue. That's where it's at,

473
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:38.159
and that's how in what I'm looking
at free agency. We'll get to

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00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:42.559
that a little bit later. I've
got some ideas in a move that I

475
00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:46.039
would like to see the Pistons make
when it comes down, I've got a

476
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:50.400
handful of players I think that they
could take a run at, and that's

477
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.199
what I would like to see.
But coming up next, I ask you

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to think about it and then call
up your favorite Game seven or favorite Game

479
00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:07.280
seven moment. We will get to
that straight ahead. Also coming up at

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seven eighteen, we'll talk with a
Red Wings color analyst, Paul Woods here

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argued for a long time that Michigan
is the most crazed golf state in the

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country. Our window to play golf
isn't very wide, is it. So

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when you get that opportunity to have
that golf outing with your buddies like I

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have, and I treasure it.
I mean, it's one of my favorite

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things to do. You want to
find a place that is going to treat

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you right, be worth it,
and accommodate you in more ways than just

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golf totally. More is that it's
the experience that you would have of a

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golf outing lifetime. It is so
prestigious, it is so beautiful. It

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gives you two championship courses totally more
and Saint Ives. It gives you a

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place to stay where you can relax, unwind, enjoy the scenery. It's

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luxurious and it's all affordable. It's
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hour north of Grand Rapids, not
even that depending on who's driving. But

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I mean it is a spectacular round
of golf and a chance to unwind afterwards.

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You've been to places right with your
friends where you've played golf and it's

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been good, right, and then
afterwards you're looking around and go, what

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are we going to you now?
These accommodations aren't that great? We stayed

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Michigan Sports Network. It is x'es
and Bros. Here on the Michigan Sports

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Network. I'm Dennis Fithian in for
Matt Shepper. Happy to be here on

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a day that everyone is focused in
on the Stanley Cup Finals and a Game

513
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:28.159
seven between the Florida Panthers and the
Edmonton Oilers. This one so happens to

514
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:32.480
not only be a Game seven,
but also has the situation where the Oilers

515
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:37.000
have forced a Game seven after being
down three. So that gets you,

516
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:45.079
really has your Is there such thing
as a Game seven juices? Or history

517
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.119
sports history juices flowing? This will
do it? A lot of things come

518
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:53.280
to mind. I put the question
out there for you, though, and

519
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.800
it's really just for you to respond. It's a it's a fun question about

520
00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:01.800
game sevens as I ask you,
what's your favorite that comes to mind or

521
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:07.440
your favorite Game seven moment? Get
in on that. I would enjoy hearing

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00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.199
from you. Eight six six eight
three eight forty eight forty three on the

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Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three
eight forty three. We'll talk with the

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00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:24.880
Red Wings color analysts coming up in
about fifteen minutes from right now. We'll

525
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:32.199
get his thoughts on tonight's game,
and then we'll look back in history as

526
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:39.440
well, talking about this now discussed
a lot about the Pistons last hour and

527
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.800
coming up in an hour from right
now, I am going to go back

528
00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.079
to it, and I will give
you a move that I would like to

529
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.639
see the Pistons make. Now if
you're just joining us, I gave you

530
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:57.400
two moves, one in the draft
and one at head coach that I would

531
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.679
like to see. I've got an
additional move, like to see the business

532
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:07.320
making. I'll get to that coming
up at eighth one. Now the Tigers,

533
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:13.360
and I put this too open topics
out there. If you've got your

534
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.679
Game seven, your favorite one,
or your favorite Game seven moment, you

535
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:20.559
can jump in on that. But
I put it out there for open topics.

536
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:22.760
If there's something that you want to
get to. There's a lot of

537
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:30.480
little things that have happened, whether
it's a golf or a college baseball or

538
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:36.519
a WNBA, whatever's tickle on your
fancy. I invite you to get on

539
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.159
in of those. I can handle
that. I'd be excited to hear from

540
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:46.079
you on any of that I mentioned
the Tigers. The Tigers did get the

541
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:52.760
victory yesterday as they pounded the White
Sox eleven or two, and they're able

542
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.360
to take two of three from Chicago. They're sitting there five games under five

543
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.440
hundred, but they beat the Whites. They are the worst team in baseball,

544
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:07.360
the White Sox with twenty one wins. Now they bring in the team

545
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:10.960
with the best record in baseball thirty
more wins than the White Sox and the

546
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:16.639
Phillies at twenty six. So the
Tigers just took on the worst team in

547
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:22.880
baseball. Now they invite in the
best team in baseball. Let's see how

548
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:30.400
they do against the Phillies who have
that spectacular fifty one and twenty six sparkling

549
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:38.320
fifty one and twenty six record.
Now, as I thought about my favorite

550
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:43.760
Game seven, the first thing I
did is I had to ask myself,

551
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:50.440
have I ever been in person to
a Game seven? And the answer to

552
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:57.559
that, I'm sorry, the answer
to that is yes. And the first

553
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:04.320
one I didn't look up the year, but it was the Pistons Going to

554
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:09.400
Work club that ended up winning the
title in eighty four, that went to

555
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:15.440
six straight Eastern Conference of Finals and
two straight NBA Finals and won the one

556
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:27.480
in four the one year they were
taken to a Game seven by the Jason

557
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:37.360
kid led New Jersey nets and I
was there, and what I remember about

558
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:43.440
that game is that the Pistons blew
them out and Jason Kidd was held scoreless

559
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:52.519
in the game, and the headline
in the newspaper was net zero clever A

560
00:49:52.639 --> 00:50:00.079
rollicking time. It was a at
the Palace back then. It was a

561
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:06.000
era where the Detroit Pistons were the
hottest ticket in town. The Palace was

562
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:13.360
as loud as any building ever and
it was all came out and enjoy there

563
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.079
as they just put the hammer down
and boat race the nets in that game.

564
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:24.360
That's not my favorite one. I
actually go to the ice for these

565
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:29.719
Game sevens. I was at neither
of them, but I was watching intently

566
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:37.159
on both of them. And I'm
thinking that of the hundreds thousands, maybe

567
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.679
hundreds of thousands that are listening right
now, then almost everyone it's you have

568
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:51.360
to be old enough to recall nineteen
ninety six and two thousand and two.

569
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:59.840
Those are are my game sevens that
come to mind. Ninety six Steve Eiserman

570
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:07.840
the captain of the Red Wings.
The Wings were taking on the Blues.

571
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:15.559
The Blues head Chris Pronger Wing Gretzky
was on the Saint Louis Blues and they

572
00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:22.159
went to a Game seven. It
was the I'm just thinking I hadn't thought

573
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.039
about that game in a while,
and hearing I'm that Casey believe was the

574
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:35.280
goalie, the netminder for Saint Louis. But Isierman scores the game winner in

575
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:43.519
the game seven. Now, that
was a double overtime game seven winner by

576
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:47.239
the captain of the Red Wings.
It doesn't get much better than that.

577
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:53.239
Then. It doesn't get much better
than a double overtime winner in a game

578
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:58.119
seven, does it. You're right, Yeah, I heard you talking to

579
00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.920
me the in my ear, I
thought you said that that's that one was

580
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:05.960
great. But you probably don't recall
ninety six, though, do you a

581
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.280
little bit? I was only nine
years old, though, so yeah,

582
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.320
that's oh well, you you know, that's right around the time you might

583
00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:16.320
remember. But also, that wasn't
the top shelf goal, was it.

584
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:22.119
I believe you know the line?
Yeah, from just inside the blue line.

585
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:23.840
I think he got it. I
remember the call of you know,

586
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:28.880
Gretzky loses the park and here it
was. I have been ripped at boom.

587
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:30.880
Yeah, it was an awesome one. You said you had some text

588
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.880
for us. We got a caller, a caller. Let's do it.

589
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:40.400
It's Mark and gun Lake. Mark
and gun Lake, welcome in. Hey,

590
00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:44.719
you're doing a great job today.
How you doing. I'm doing great

591
00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:46.880
mark House things going around the west
side of the state. There at beautiful

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00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:52.599
gun Lake. Oh, it's beautiful
over here today. So but I wanted

593
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.639
to give you an idea. I
I I talked to Shep about this a

594
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:00.159
few weeks back. There's a guy
that I've been watching on some film or

595
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:05.639
whatever you want to call it,
DV or whatever, and uh Dalton Connect

596
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:09.639
out of Tennessee. For the pistons, I think at five this guy can

597
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:13.880
shoot them. We need some three
point shooters, and this guy is a

598
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.119
He's a good player. I don't
know. Do you know anything about this

599
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:23.239
this guy or not? Yeah?
You know I Connect is a fascinating player.

600
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:28.000
You know. He transfers from Tennessee. He hits the ground running,

601
00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:34.920
he leads the sec and scoring.
He looks like a dynamic scorer that he

602
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:37.840
could bring that to the NBA.
The only question I have on Connect is,

603
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.800
you know, does he play any
defense? I know, if he

604
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:45.679
is a prolific scorer, that doesn't
matter to me that much. If you

605
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:49.880
know, you could you could play
some defense. Uh, he's a first

606
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.360
round pick for sure. Five seems
a little high for him, but uh,

607
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.400
you're right. The Pistons need a
score, they need a shooter,

608
00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:00.199
and Connect brings both of those.
I'd like reached Shepherd a little bit more

609
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:06.280
for Kentucky out of the SEC as
well, Mark, because of the three

610
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:09.480
point shooting. But I connect,
if the Pistons moved like you've told me

611
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:14.079
they moved, I was talking about
moving to San Antonio or even moving a

612
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:19.880
little bit later. Connect. I
would be very happy with the Pistons delivering

613
00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:24.079
a Dalton Connect to Detroit. I
would love to see him because I think

614
00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:28.840
when they had Vinnie Johnson, when
Dumers or Thomas got in foul trouble and

615
00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:31.159
Vinnie came in, he'd light it
up. And I think this guy can

616
00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:35.760
do the same thing, so you
know, or he could be a starter.

617
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:37.800
But yeah, I just wanted to
get your opinion on that. So

618
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.039
but I hope you have a great
day and great job on the show,

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00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.239
and I'll talk to you again.
Okay, Thanks Mark, Dalton Connect,

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I love it. We'll talk with
Paul Woods, the Colorados from the Red

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Dennis Fithian back here on X's and
Bros. Across the state of Michigan on

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the Michigan Sports Network. Let's bring
in the color analyst of the Detroit Red

638
00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.840
Wings. Who joins us, That
is Paul Woods. Paul, How you

639
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:22.039
doing real good? Dennis? How
you been? Oh, I'm doing pretty

640
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:22.599
good. You know. It's great
to hear your voice, you know.

641
00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.480
And I texted you. You said
you were coming back from up north.

642
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:29.800
I didn't know if that meant like
way up and you know, towards the

643
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.599
North Pole or in the state of
Michigan. Where are you at? Right

644
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:37.239
in the middle of the state of
Michigan, just west of Grailing on seventy

645
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.480
two Ministee River goes through there.
So I liked the offish over there.

646
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.880
And the weather didn't cooperate this at
time. So I've got to head back

647
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:50.599
to Canada this morning or actually today, so I'm on my way back and

648
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:52.239
actually I just I turned on the
radio this morning and you were on the

649
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:55.039
Grailing station, So I was listening
on the way back. You're talking about

650
00:56:55.079 --> 00:57:02.079
the basketball. Yeah, wgr why
one on one point one up north?

651
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:07.039
So, yeah, that's awesome that
you were able to hear us out there

652
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.239
on the road. Now, Paul, you've got this Game seven tonight,

653
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:13.960
and I'm just going to serve it
up really easy for you. Would you

654
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:22.400
rather be Edmonton who is trying to
do this reverse sweep? Or would you

655
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:24.639
like to be the Panthers who have
history on their side and they have the

656
00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:29.320
home ich? Would rather be Florida
or Edmonton tonight? You know, I

657
00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:31.519
like that term reverse sweep. That's
good. But you know, Dennis,

658
00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:35.679
I think it's I don't know in
hockey because of it. It's sudden death

659
00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:37.920
and overtime and stuff. I know. Usually just two great teams. And

660
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:43.760
you know, no one thought Edamton
would get down three nothing, and nobody

661
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.719
thought they'd come back and win three
in a row to bring it to Game

662
00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:51.039
seven. So there is two outstanding
hockey teams and the level of play in

663
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:54.280
the playoffs has been great as it
was last year in the NHL. So

664
00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:59.960
I'm going to pick the Panthers to
win it. I don't think Edmonton can

665
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:04.280
can do it for in a row. They've hurt Florida with the like the

666
00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:08.360
third line, the third and fourth
line became much more competitive and productive and

667
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:13.559
they're penalty killing. The special team's
been better as well, but in Games

668
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:17.000
four and five, Florida gave up
a short handed goal and that's a kiss

669
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:21.880
of death, Like you can't do
that. So I think the Panthers will

670
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:23.480
right the ship, that it will
be a close game, maybe overtime,

671
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:30.360
but I'm picking Florida. Yeah,
you look at the oiler side and they've

672
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:32.880
I don't know how much momentum is
gonna matter, you know, Connor McDavid

673
00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:38.559
in company, they've got a combined
score of eighteen to five and route to

674
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:43.199
you know, tying this thing up. The history is the thing. I

675
00:58:43.239 --> 00:58:46.280
wonder how much you believe that this
plays into it? First, just about

676
00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:52.320
being down oh three, because three
there's been two hundred and ten teams.

677
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:59.760
You've got four comeback winners, just
one though in the finals sid Ables forty

678
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:02.199
two team went down. I mean, how much of that does the history

679
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.519
just being down three play into this
in your mind? Well, my mind

680
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:09.639
the good Dennis player, like it's
it's just it's just the game we're playing

681
00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:13.519
that counts. Like what happened in
the past has got no bearing than us.

682
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.119
It's it's different players, a different
time, different era. So No,

683
00:59:16.280 --> 00:59:19.760
it's just this moment right in there
now, and you know, and

684
00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:22.760
that's the thing. If we can
come out and play our best game and

685
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.639
again. But Brosky was outstanding in
the first three games and not so good

686
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:29.599
in the last three games. So
if he gets back the way he was

687
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:31.440
playing in the first three, then
they have a chance to win. But

688
00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:36.360
Stuart Skinner has been good and he's
been probably a little bit better than expected.

689
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.559
And I think on the Edmonton side
too, it's it's become more of

690
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:44.199
a balance attack and I think that's
helped. And Connor McDavid is really like

691
00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:47.199
he's got the NHL record now for
assists in a single playoff season. But

692
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:52.920
his game he's become, in my
mind now totally selfless. Like for him

693
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:54.599
before it seemed to me like he
seemed like he felt like he had to

694
00:59:54.639 --> 01:00:00.239
score and and just continually trying to
score. Where now he involving his teammates.

695
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.760
And I think it's forty two assists
I think he's up to now and

696
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:07.119
he didn't have anything in game in
Game six, but they still won.

697
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:13.400
But he's changed his game. He's
no longer just a score He's just doing

698
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:16.519
everything he possibly can to win,
and I think that's the maturity of a

699
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:22.320
great young player. The former Red
Wings captain Paul Woods, we're talking about

700
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:24.840
the Panthers and Oilers. The Oilers
trying to become just the third team in

701
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:31.039
NHL history to come back and you
know they they they are the third team

702
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:35.639
in NHL history to even just tie
it up at three games apiece, and

703
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:40.239
they're trying to become the first team
since the Leafs in forty two to complete

704
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:44.519
it. Paul, I hear you
on the history. I remember when the

705
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:49.800
Red Wings were trying to go back
to back in eight and nine, and

706
01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:54.119
in that Game seven, I'm looking
at all the notes and it says that

707
01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:59.360
home ice isn't important in the playoffs
until the game seven, and then they

708
01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:02.840
had the numbers there, and then
it said that home ice isn't important into

709
01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:10.000
game seven until a game seven and
then really in the Stanley Cup Finals,

710
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:14.079
you know the stats, and I
know you just said throw all the stats

711
01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:17.880
out the window, but how about
the the the home ice and the numbers

712
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.280
that that favor And of course you
know the Penguins won that game, so

713
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.960
you know all of that being said
there it is, Yeah, yeah,

714
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:30.320
I remember I can still I can
still picture Mark Andreck Fleury is sliding across

715
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.280
and making that stay very late on
in regulation against nick Lesram. I mean,

716
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.360
we could easily have and you know, really it's funny but that we

717
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.079
should have won that series against the
Pittsburgh peng Loins, like we totally out

718
01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:44.480
to play them, but Fleury was
great in a goal and they just found

719
01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:46.360
a way to hang on. But
uh, we should have won both those

720
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:49.280
series. You did win one,
but should have won them both in my

721
01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.920
mind against Pittsford. But but back
to the question again, like I I

722
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:55.159
just uh, I believe, I
believe in the moment. I just believe

723
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:59.079
you're in the moment. It's it's
these certain guys. You look around the

724
01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:04.280
room, it's against them, and
again it's it's great stories on both sides.

725
01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:07.000
I mean, and really that strength
of the Florida Panther team was that

726
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:12.639
they got so much production from their
their third line, Anton Lundell and this

727
01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:16.639
Looseter Ryan and a couple of finish
ship players. They just are really blow

728
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:22.480
the radar like very important players for
the Florida Panthers, but they haven't been

729
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.039
as important and those guys need to
pick it back up. But you just

730
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:28.840
got to, you know, get
out there and get going and and get

731
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.280
started. But again, Edmonton,
it's just it's it's a great story.

732
01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:36.639
That third line now with Adam Henry
has been outstanding. Kelly Ironcroft, the

733
01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:40.840
former Red Wing farm hand, he's
been a Graham matter line and and that

734
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:45.679
group has really helped out now and
Connor Brown, a guy scored two goals

735
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:49.280
in the regular season all of a
sudden, now it's become a weapon before

736
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:52.239
Chris Nablock the head coach of Edmonton. So it's going to be a battle.

737
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:57.280
Like both teams have lots of positives
and I can see each team winning.

738
01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.519
But again, I just got a
funny feeling about of Florida. I

739
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:05.320
think they're going to find a way
tonight. Okay, I know you just

740
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:07.639
said all about State in the moment
and everything, but I was looking at

741
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:10.159
the first goal. You know,
both in game five in Game six,

742
01:03:12.320 --> 01:03:15.519
Edmonton's gets out to a three to
nothing lead. They of course when they

743
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:20.000
won that eight to one game in
game four, you know, they scored

744
01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:23.480
the first goal there. So is
the first goal? Are you still going

745
01:03:23.559 --> 01:03:28.800
to feel good about Florida being able
to win this if Edmonton scores the first

746
01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:31.079
goal, yeah, to me,
like, it's sixty minutes tennis, Like

747
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:34.880
you know, it's yeah, sometimes
you're ahead and sometimes you're behind, and

748
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.400
you know, it's just so many
different variables can happen. But again,

749
01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:42.599
I think I think Florida outshot the
Edmonton in Game six, So again that's

750
01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:45.760
a that's a good sign as well. But they're they're actually controlling more of

751
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.440
the game. So again, like
I said, it could go the other

752
01:03:47.480 --> 01:03:50.960
way, and I mean it's going
to be a fine, fine line and

753
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:53.760
it might get to overtime. I
mean, it's just the thing I just

754
01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:58.000
really you know, want to point
out two is about that that hockey is

755
01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.199
the only sport where where there actually
is death, like just one goal,

756
01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:04.719
one shot and it's over, and
you know, other sports and stuff,

757
01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:08.039
you have a chance come back and
tie it up. You know, in

758
01:04:08.079 --> 01:04:13.199
basketball it's an overtime period, it's
not sudden death. You know baseball again,

759
01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:15.280
and you know you have your bottom
part of the inning or you're part

760
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:19.320
chance to tie it up in the
same in football, you know, but

761
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:24.440
hockey is the only one where just
one shot, one play can end the

762
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.920
game and end your season. So
the pressure will beyond But you know,

763
01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:30.719
people live for these moments. They
be given these kinds of games and stuff.

764
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:32.239
So for I think for the fans
and people watching, it's a little

765
01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:36.679
bit nerve wracking, but for the
players, it's exciting. Well, Paul

766
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:40.599
couldn't get you out of here without
asking you about the Red Wings. You

767
01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:43.079
know, you were talking about some
of the depth on these teams. I

768
01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:46.320
look at Florida, A guy like
Sam Bennett number nine, I've really enjoyed

769
01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:50.000
watching him play. Evan Rodriguez brings
a lot to the table. These are

770
01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:54.440
not household names. I mean,
everybody's talking about you know what good reason

771
01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:59.239
Markoff and ver Hagy and on down
the line, could Chalk and all the

772
01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:01.719
big names that and even Tara Cinco
who they had as a free agent.

773
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.320
But it's these other guys. What
about the Red Wings? I mean,

774
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.440
do you feel like that how far
are the Red Wings away from getting into

775
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.280
the postseason and maybe make it a
little run. Well, you know,

776
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:15.320
I think we should have made the
playoffs last year and we tied with Washington

777
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:17.119
and they won a tiebreaker, and
you know, I'm a now a believer

778
01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:20.599
that we should have a play in
game I don't think any team should.

779
01:05:20.920 --> 01:05:24.920
When you play any two games and
you're tied in a number of points,

780
01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:28.440
both teams should be a one game
playoff and the team it would have had

781
01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:30.920
the tiebreaker, they get whole mice
in that game. But to me,

782
01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.440
I just wasn't right. I mean, the way they worked, how hard

783
01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:38.159
they played, the way they bowt
in those last games that get to the

784
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:42.119
point they're tied, and to lose
it on a tiebreaker, I just don't

785
01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:45.639
think is right. But I think
the Red Wings, again, like every

786
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:47.639
year, they keep getting better.
Last year's team, if they'd played the

787
01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:51.639
previous years, that team, they
don't want a playoff series in four consecutive

788
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:56.440
games. We're that much better.
So we're better defensively, we're much deeper

789
01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:00.320
upfront. We've got six unrestricted to
preationents, one go won defenseman, four

790
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:03.760
forwards, so again we've got to
figure that into it. But there's lots

791
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:08.360
of free agents out there, so
that starts July first. The draft I

792
01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:11.360
think is June twenty eighth, so
that's coming up, so it's going to

793
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:15.119
be a busy week. But I
expect the Red Wings to be aggressive in

794
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:19.039
the free agency, and again They're
going to keep improving this team, and

795
01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:23.480
they've got to do it now because
Ottawa got better in the offseason already,

796
01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.119
Buffalo is going to get to better. New Jersey's already better. They picked

797
01:06:27.159 --> 01:06:30.599
up a goaltender on the Calgary playing
so Eastern Conference teams that all want to

798
01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:33.679
make the playoffs, so it will
be more difficult than it was last year

799
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:38.400
to make the playoffs. But again, I think the Wings are definitely heading

800
01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:42.280
in the right direction and we'll make
the playoffs next year. Hey Paul,

801
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:44.800
it was great talking with you.
Can't wait, I mean a season ends

802
01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:47.519
tonight, but we'll we'd be looking
forward to when the season starts with you

803
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:51.400
behind the mic. Safe travels,
and thanks for joining us this morning.

804
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:56.559
Always a great pleasure, Dennis.
Keep up the good work, all right,

805
01:06:56.599 --> 01:06:59.760
take care there is Paul Woods.
We'll talk about what Paul had to

806
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:03.119
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Tennis Fithian back here on Ex's and
Bros. I'm the Michigan Sports Network.

815
01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:11.000
A couple things for you to jump
in on, but we do have open

816
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:15.680
topics. If you're not recalling your
favorite Game seven or your favorite Game seven

817
01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:25.880
moment, wherever you're at also looking
for your move that the Red Wings could

818
01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:29.439
make a move, that the Red
Wings could make your favorite Game seven or

819
01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:31.880
Game seven moment. That's what we
have for you on the plate right here.

820
01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:33.920
But we do have open topics,
So if you wanted to go somewhere

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01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:38.800
else, go ahead eight six six
eight three eight forty eight forty three on

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01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:43.520
the Meyer hot Line again eight six
six eight three eight forty eight forty three.

823
01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:47.840
You could text Sports Radio to twenty
one thousand Sports Radio all one word

824
01:08:47.880 --> 01:08:53.720
to get in on any of that
coming up at eight oh one, a

825
01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:57.359
move you would like to see the
Pistons make. You know, you've got

826
01:08:57.399 --> 01:08:59.880
all of this going on. You
know, we just talked with Paul Woods,

827
01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:04.880
not only after tonight's game. With
the NHL season ending, you have

828
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:11.439
free agency that starts a week from
today in the NHL, and you also

829
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.640
have the NHL Draft. Meanwhile,
on the basketball side, the Celtics last

830
01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:20.079
week win the championship and you've got
the NBA Draft on Wednesday, and then

831
01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:25.640
Sunday you've got free agency in the
NBA. So a lot of teams,

832
01:09:25.640 --> 01:09:30.439
a lot of pieces to move around. If you're telling me that a champion

833
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:38.399
could be made this week by the
via trade, a draft, a free

834
01:09:38.479 --> 01:09:42.479
agency, that's kind of how it's
done. So yeah, I believe the

835
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:46.119
shrewd the big time move. Like
who thought, I don't know, going

836
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:50.119
back to the last year, you
know, the Oilers they pick up Zach

837
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:54.439
Hyman and he goes out. Nobody
was predicting that that guy who was going

838
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:58.079
to score fifty four goals? Were
they hoping for twenty thirty maybe, but

839
01:09:58.279 --> 01:10:05.479
you know, fifty four and he's
leading the Stanley Cup playoffs in goals as

840
01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:12.439
well. The greatest Connor McDavid as
men Hymen has been awesome as well,

841
01:10:12.479 --> 01:10:19.520
the former Michigan Wolverine in Zach Hyman. So I don't know Game seven's I

842
01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:28.359
gave you one. It was a
moment. My favorite Game seven moment was

843
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:35.079
double overtime Steve Eiserman against the Blues
back in ninety six for my favorite game.

844
01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:39.800
Why that is not my favorite game
is that the Red Wings in ninety

845
01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:46.680
six did not go on to win
the Stanley Cup. If they did that,

846
01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:51.920
that goal becomes validated and even bigger
as it is, it was a

847
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:58.960
pretty big goal. But I will
go to two thousand and two for my

848
01:10:59.079 --> 01:11:05.720
favorite game set and it was really
a the anticipation that led up to it

849
01:11:05.840 --> 01:11:12.880
and then how the game unfolded.
It was all magical. You know that

850
01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:17.720
it's a that it's great when you
don't have to go and look many things

851
01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:23.800
up about a particular game. Moments
are there for you. You know,

852
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:29.479
the the Isserman goal in double overtime. But the O two Red Wings Avs

853
01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:35.279
game was the culmination of the seven
year war between the two teams, and

854
01:11:35.319 --> 01:11:38.840
in my mind, you know,
for that seven years, I don't know,

855
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:45.560
I can't think of a better rivalry
between two teams in all of sports.

856
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:49.000
It was a it was a great
time you had from ninety six to

857
01:11:49.079 --> 01:11:56.199
oh two, these uh, these
two teams met five times, they combined

858
01:11:56.239 --> 01:12:04.079
for five Cups. And so the
game seven, the Wings had won two

859
01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:09.199
times, the Avs had won two
times. Whoever was going to win this

860
01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:14.560
one? You know if who won
the Wings Ab rivalry, well it was

861
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:20.239
going to come down to this Game
seven in two thousand and two, and

862
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:25.039
he almost felt like, for sure, whoever wins it would go on to

863
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:29.239
win the Stanley Cup finals. Of
course that's what happened. The Red Wings

864
01:12:29.279 --> 01:12:32.199
won it, and then they won
the Stanley Cup Finals. And then you

865
01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:39.520
also just looked the finals are the
big deal. But sometimes the two best

866
01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:43.680
teams are in the same conference.
And this is what it was with the

867
01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:47.199
Wings and the Abs. I mean, the Wings beat the Flyers, they

868
01:12:47.239 --> 01:12:54.680
sweep them. The Wings beat the
Capitals, they sweapd them to but it

869
01:12:54.760 --> 01:13:00.439
was about getting by Colorado. And
so you know that whole seven years,

870
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:04.560
every game. I went to a
number of those games. But also I

871
01:13:04.600 --> 01:13:11.159
can recall going to a lot of
parties my friends just all getting together and

872
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.199
watching the Red Wings and the Avalanche. Whatever we're doing, whether it was

873
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:19.920
somebody's house or wherever we're at.
I kind of remember playing, Ah,

874
01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:25.399
I don't know if it was called
a Gus Mackerbeck then a basketball tournament in

875
01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:32.319
Grand Rapids, but we all were
able to get to a restaurant and watch

876
01:13:32.399 --> 01:13:35.439
the Red Wings and Aves in one
of those playoff games. But you know,

877
01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:43.319
that was a seven nothing Red Wings
victory over the over the Avs.

878
01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:50.840
But it couldn't have been any better. I actually, if you're asking me

879
01:13:50.920 --> 01:13:58.520
to draw it up, even looking
back, would you say, would you

880
01:13:58.600 --> 01:14:02.800
rather have had a you know,
a four to three overtime victory against the

881
01:14:02.840 --> 01:14:08.119
Avs? Not this time? Most
of the times I would say, yeah,

882
01:14:08.119 --> 01:14:11.800
give me all the drama, especially
you know, of course maybe for

883
01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:16.119
sure if the you can guarantee me
a win. But the Red Wings scored

884
01:14:16.560 --> 01:14:19.960
and they're like the opening minutes,
I like it was homestrm actually against the

885
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:25.239
against the Avs. They scored again
in the first period, you know,

886
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:28.640
but you never you know, you're
thinking, ah, it feels good,

887
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:30.600
but then they're you know, they're
up three to four. They get a

888
01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:33.880
statue of liberty goal that was a
great moment. If you were looking for

889
01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:40.119
a Game seven moment, they were
Patrick Waugh. He kind of looked like

890
01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:42.640
he was, I don't know what
he was doing, and like they broke

891
01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:46.119
him. He lifted up his glove. I mean, maybe the greatest goaltender

892
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:49.279
of all time, and you know
he lifts up his glove for this,

893
01:14:49.520 --> 01:14:55.039
uh statue of liberty goal and you
know, the Red Wings are up and

894
01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:58.159
then they go on. But with
each goal, I mean, the party

895
01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:06.079
and the excitement, it was like
winning the Stanley Cup. With the you

896
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:11.479
were that much closer with every goal, and it was like the celebration started.

897
01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:15.399
It was like a parade, a
coronation. We know they still had

898
01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:17.840
work to do and everything else,
but I was at a bar for that

899
01:15:17.920 --> 01:15:20.880
game and the entire time, you
know, the first minute or two,

900
01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:27.920
you know, it's it's as tense
as you can get. But the the

901
01:15:27.960 --> 01:15:33.840
release of joy and celebration throughout that
game, it was it was just a

902
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:40.560
you know, a party unlike any
other. And you know every game takes

903
01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:43.680
on them in a different form and
different shape. And if they're close and

904
01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:45.960
you're coming back, like Paul Woods
was talking about last segment, you know

905
01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:53.680
you get to this die sudden death
type situation where when it gets to that

906
01:15:53.800 --> 01:16:00.760
kind of situation, every time the
puck goes into, it goes over the

907
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:03.279
blue line. You're in. You
know, you can't do this in every

908
01:16:03.319 --> 01:16:06.680
game that you watch, like just
hold your breath and look at every single

909
01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:10.399
play with you know like, oh
my gosh, this is either gonna be

910
01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:12.800
this is gonna be the one to
score, this is gonna be the one

911
01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:15.199
to go against. You can't think
about that every time, as you know,

912
01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:17.720
just somebody that's watching it, but
you sure do when it comes down

913
01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:24.199
to a Game seven type situation or
if it's coming down to an overtime situation,

914
01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:28.000
every time the puck goes in,
you're thinking, this is it,

915
01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:32.199
this is something's gonna happen here,
and you know you're you're hoping that.

916
01:16:32.920 --> 01:16:39.840
You know, you see so many
times the deflections and uh, that would

917
01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:44.279
be the one thing if you're if
I'm if I'm drawing something up tonight and

918
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:46.680
I want the Panthers to win,
I'll tell you why in a moment,

919
01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:50.479
But I really want the Panthers to
win. But I would like to see

920
01:16:53.359 --> 01:16:59.560
a close game where it comes down
with somebody scores a fabulous goal to win

921
01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:01.199
it. Yeah, you want to
take them into overtime and you know,

922
01:17:01.239 --> 01:17:05.880
tell me, you know, McDavid
goes through a bunch of Panthers and scores

923
01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:11.159
this miraculous goal. Yeah, that'd
be great. I think the same thing

924
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:15.279
for the Panthers, you know,
but score a great goal. I don't

925
01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:21.239
want a power play where the blast
comes in, it's deflected and then the

926
01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:25.720
you know, the goaltender has no
chance. It ricochets off of their own

927
01:17:25.720 --> 01:17:29.039
player. You know, one of
those goals. I want to clean highlight,

928
01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:34.960
super sweet goal. Now. I
want the Panthers to win because I

929
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:41.680
bet them into the in the Stanley
Cup finals, and I have not had

930
01:17:41.720 --> 01:17:45.840
a good run here in the Stanley
Cup playoffs. I'll just give you my

931
01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:53.800
I've had a ton of fun with
with the playoffs over the years. I

932
01:17:53.840 --> 01:17:59.439
have about fifteen of my friends.
For at least thirty years, we've had

933
01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:02.960
a a pool that we run for
the playoffs. So we've taken a few

934
01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:06.199
years off here and there, but
for the most part, for for the

935
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:09.680
you know, better part of thirty
years, we've had it's kind of a

936
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:14.800
fantasy, you know, pick a
player type situation. Well, anyways,

937
01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:16.960
this year, I didn't know it, but only four of us got in.

938
01:18:17.560 --> 01:18:20.560
But I picked all of these Panthers
players, and I picked, you

939
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:26.439
know, three oilers. And the
fun part for me is that I don't

940
01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:30.800
look at what my opponent is doing. And I found that I have much

941
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:33.079
more fun doing it that way,
just thinking about my team and if they

942
01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:39.680
get there. But I did not. It was not very smart handicapping because

943
01:18:39.720 --> 01:18:46.399
I did a a a bet when
I got even though I just said I

944
01:18:46.439 --> 01:18:51.239
took the Panthers, I hedged,
and because I thought if the Panthers got

945
01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:58.399
to the finals, that I was
going to win this pool no matter what.

946
01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:00.000
I had picked all these pans,
there's players. I already said how

947
01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:04.239
many oilers I had, so I
hedged, and then you know bet the

948
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:10.000
Rangers, thinking oh, well,
at least I'll win this. Well that's

949
01:19:10.039 --> 01:19:13.800
not the smart handicapping part was is
that if you're going to hedge, you

950
01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:15.840
should be looking at all of your
odds and everything there. And I did

951
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:23.079
not look at what my opponents were
doing. My friend picked better than me.

952
01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:26.079
I think there could have been one
hundred people in this pool, and

953
01:19:26.119 --> 01:19:30.239
my friend would have I mean he
picked every player that you could think of

954
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:35.760
the perfect. He had the perfect
lineup against me, and so I lost

955
01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:40.479
that even before I got into the
finals, and so the heading into the

956
01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:44.399
finals, I'd watched all these like, I really liked the Panthers, and

957
01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:49.119
I had never felt smarter, even
though it was a bad move, hedging

958
01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:53.319
when I wasn't looking at all the
details. But I had never been felt

959
01:19:53.359 --> 01:19:58.119
smarter than taking the Panthers. After
game one, after game two, after

960
01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:01.920
game three, I've got my chest
and I'm thinking, you know, I've

961
01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:06.319
got this. This this gambling.
I'm pretty good at it. You know,

962
01:20:06.439 --> 01:20:12.399
forget the uh, forget the daily
lineup, forget the fantasy is talking

963
01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:15.920
about straight up handicaping. I'm picking
the winner. I'm doing pretty good.

964
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:20.880
But then with each loss here eight
one, you know, look at the

965
01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:27.680
Mavericks in it. But oh bo, but after game five, the collar

966
01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:32.920
on myself was really tightening. And
then this last game, of course,

967
01:20:32.920 --> 01:20:36.479
do either score first? Of course, you know, forget up to nothing

968
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:41.159
and the Panthers fought back a little
bit. So a little bit, but

969
01:20:41.319 --> 01:20:47.039
I have all of that history on
my side. Do I have a ninety

970
01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:54.840
eight chance? Looking at history?
I do it's even more of that if

971
01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:58.640
I, you know, of zero
went out of being the Stanley Cup Finals

972
01:20:59.640 --> 01:21:01.960
with a Panther's winning. But you
know, I'm gonna tell you, I

973
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:08.960
don't feel like I have a ninety
nine percent chance of cashing my ticket tonight.

974
01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:12.640
I don't even know if I feel
like I have a fifty percent.

975
01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.439
I feel like I have a you
know, I definitely feel like I have

976
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:21.279
a forty percent. I feel like
I have a forty five percent chance,

977
01:21:25.079 --> 01:21:29.479
and I feel like whoever scores that
first goal. If it is Florida,

978
01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:33.279
I'm gonna feel like I got a
you know, then above fifty percent chance.

979
01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:39.680
But if it's the Oilers, let's
score first tonight. Just remember it'll

980
01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:45.199
be Dennis Fifthigen who's sitting back saying
he thinks he doesn't have any chance to

981
01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:50.159
win this now. So that's gonna
be the added drama. But for me,

982
01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:55.279
I always try to remember that I'm
never gonna win a whole lot,

983
01:21:55.439 --> 01:21:58.800
never gonna lose a whole lot either, because I don't put that much down

984
01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:02.159
on it. But man, what
a roller coaster. These Stanley Cup playoffs

985
01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:10.520
have been very exciting, a lot
of fun and also educational for me and

986
01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:15.880
hopefully for you when I'm telling you
about my handicapping experience. There, don't

987
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:17.720
head your bet and lets you know
all the numbers, or at least you

988
01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:23.399
know get you get the most information
that you can. Certainly take a look

989
01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:27.159
at it if you feel like you're
ready to clinch something, and if you've

990
01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:30.199
got it, how about backing that
up with actually looking at it. I'm

991
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:34.880
telling myself that now very easy to
say now after the fact. That's how

992
01:22:34.880 --> 01:22:40.520
it goes when it comes down to
it. All right, So we've got

993
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:43.560
the question of the day right now, and it's out there for you.

994
01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:51.039
I have given you both my moment
and my favorite game. Seven two Wings

995
01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:57.359
abs seven nothing Red Wings in two
thousand and two. My favorite moment the

996
01:22:57.600 --> 01:23:04.800
ninety six Red Wings Steveman blasting that
shot from just over the right side of

997
01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:11.920
the blue line after Gretzky gave up
the puck at double overtime, Red Wings

998
01:23:11.960 --> 01:23:16.720
win it. There's my moment,
there's my game. Also, looking for

999
01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:20.159
a move that you want to see
the Red Wings make? Now, do

1000
01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:29.640
I think that the Red Wings are
going to sign one of the top tier

1001
01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.359
like so you look and you think, all right? Free agency Sam Reinhardt

1002
01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:44.680
plays for Florida, a right winger
who is one of the top free agents

1003
01:23:45.479 --> 01:23:53.920
that is out there. Is he
scored fifty seven goals this year. Is

1004
01:23:54.520 --> 01:24:03.319
are the Detroit Red Wings ready to
throw everything they have at Reinhart? I

1005
01:24:03.399 --> 01:24:10.319
doubt it. I don't feel like
that. I was looking at some of

1006
01:24:10.319 --> 01:24:14.680
the salaries on the Panthers and like
Barkoff gets ten million dollars a year,

1007
01:24:14.760 --> 01:24:19.119
could Chuck almost gets ten million dollars
a year. They don't have any I's

1008
01:24:19.119 --> 01:24:24.199
gonna say any tax, whether a
tax free state. That helps. Plus

1009
01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:30.439
they're winning. And I don't know. I don't know Reinhardt, but being

1010
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:34.159
down in South Florida, you know
that that weather that is also an attraction.

1011
01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:38.000
But I don't know how much money. I mean, if he's looking

1012
01:24:38.039 --> 01:24:44.159
for every single nickel that he can, he'll probably have to leave Florida.

1013
01:24:44.239 --> 01:24:50.039
But he's having a great contract year, that's for sure. Also someone who's

1014
01:24:50.079 --> 01:25:02.560
had a great contract year was Jake
Getzel, who ended up with Carolina at

1015
01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:06.279
an offseason ankle injury. But he's
a dangerous winger. He could also be

1016
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:13.119
someone that you're thinking about could really
go ahead and and and really cash it.

1017
01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:15.600
But you're gonna have to give up
a boat load. But Carolina they

1018
01:25:15.640 --> 01:25:21.399
were willing to cough up a bunch
to get him at the deadline, so

1019
01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:28.560
you would think that they would be
ready to match any suitors. I don't

1020
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know. There's others, big names, Stammer, Steven stampcost probably the biggest

1021
01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:40.239
name, a little bit older,
but he was disappointed. Stamp cooast was

1022
01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:44.239
that he didn't get that extension.
A big name, a little bit older,

1023
01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:46.680
gonna be big money that doesn't really
look like I mean, Eisaman was

1024
01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:49.520
what Tampa? Does that matter?
I don't know. There's some of them.

1025
01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:54.199
There's some of the potential moves that
didn't give you the move that I

1026
01:25:54.239 --> 01:25:58.319
wanted to see the Red Wings make. You can get in on that,

1027
01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:00.640
a move that you'd like to see
the pit make. We've got that combination

1028
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:05.960
for you coming up here straight ahead. Are we going to go to the

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text at You can text sports radio
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is all available for you. We'll
look at both moves coming in at at

1032
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eight oh one, Ben, what
are we doing here? Your favorite move?

1033
01:26:30.079 --> 01:26:34.119
Or your move for the Red Wings
right, yes, yes, you

1034
01:26:34.199 --> 01:26:39.079
have one? Or you have your
favorite game seven? Yeah I do.

1035
01:26:39.640 --> 01:26:44.159
We can talk about that in the
next segment. We will get to Ben's

1036
01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:48.199
favorite straight ahead. Here in the
eight o'clock hour on Exus and Bros.

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isn't very wide, is it.
So when you get that opportunity to have

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players you need a bit more like
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of cats in here looking in the
mirror. But I look good. I

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got my extra bands on, I
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more dolls. Lot a detain,
Oh you're not that detained. We weren't

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good. There's no sense of asking
me things about the game. I'm telling

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you we laid an egg. So
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you. He sucks, He sucks, laid an egg. That's all I

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have to say. Guys, I'm
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for us. It's on us. We

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have to figure it out, and
we will. It's yo, Dad,

1080
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Yeah, good morning. A little
bit after eight o'clock. You're on X's

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and Rows on the Michigan Sports Network
and I'm out here Dennis fitting and in

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Formatt Sheppard this morning. Ben Zost
is here. We're taking your calls.

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It is one of those times on
the sports calendar. You've got the end

1084
01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:41.039
of the NHL season that will take
place tonight with the Game seven between the

1085
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:47.840
Oilers and Panthers. You are not
a sports fan if you're excited about the

1086
01:30:47.880 --> 01:30:54.199
prospects of a Game seven, adding
in that the Oilers were down three,

1087
01:30:55.479 --> 01:30:59.079
if you're not a hockey fan,
it does at least give you a jumping

1088
01:30:59.159 --> 01:31:04.439
off point to recall in sports history
your team when they were in a situation

1089
01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:10.079
of a Game seven. And it's
one of the things that we're asking you

1090
01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:17.239
this morning your favorite Game seven or
your favorite Game seven moment that is out

1091
01:31:17.279 --> 01:31:20.000
there for you that we like to
hear from you. On eight sixty six

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in that way. It is the
last night of the NHL season. But

1096
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:45.479
then you have the NHL Draft later
this week, and then you have NHL

1097
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:53.439
free agency. It's the same thing
on the side of the NBA. The

1098
01:31:53.680 --> 01:32:00.119
draft, excuse me, is on
Wednesday, and then you have free agency

1099
01:32:01.079 --> 01:32:06.560
that will be later on Sunday.
I believe it starts Monday for the NHL.

1100
01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:12.800
Technically Sunday for the NBA. But
as you know, if you have

1101
01:32:12.920 --> 01:32:16.319
paid attention to this kind of situation
in years past, the names and signings

1102
01:32:16.359 --> 01:32:23.439
come out prior to the weekend.
So with that, I'm asking you,

1103
01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:28.039
in addition to the favorite Game seven
or Game seven moment, a move you

1104
01:32:28.039 --> 01:32:32.760
would like to see the Pistons or
Red Wings make. Now I go back

1105
01:32:33.079 --> 01:32:35.920
and the move I would like.
I've got a number of moves for the

1106
01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:43.000
Pistons. I think the Pistons I
would like to see Borrego be hired as

1107
01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:48.520
the head coach today. He's been
through with Popovich when he won a couple

1108
01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:55.319
championships as a Spurs assistant. He
was down there in New Orleans as their

1109
01:32:55.319 --> 01:32:59.000
associate head coach. He's ready to
be a head coach. He's got the

1110
01:32:59.039 --> 01:33:03.720
connection with Lange, then let's see
him deliver Brego as the new Pistons head

1111
01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:08.079
coach. How important is the head
coach? Well, you know, when

1112
01:33:08.119 --> 01:33:13.800
you see a team that goes from
the very bottom where they're at, that

1113
01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:16.920
can grow together, it can be
very important, So very important to land

1114
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:21.439
the right guy. That's the coach
that I would like to see them higher.

1115
01:33:23.159 --> 01:33:28.199
Now when it comes to the draft
on Wednesday, I would like to

1116
01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:31.880
see the Pistons move back and pick
up a first rounder from the Spurs.

1117
01:33:32.840 --> 01:33:36.479
The Spurs are sitting there at both
number four and eight, the Pistons at

1118
01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:42.000
number five. I believe that the
Spurs want to get two of these frenchmen

1119
01:33:42.800 --> 01:33:46.720
and get a real French connection going
down there in San Antonio. They got

1120
01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:54.199
riz Archer, Sar and Salon as
three picks that could be going, and

1121
01:33:54.319 --> 01:34:00.680
two of those guys probably be going
in the top five. Salon is a

1122
01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:05.479
Solon is more of a wild card. But I could see the Spurs wanting

1123
01:34:05.479 --> 01:34:11.880
to pick up two of those frenchmen
and really add that with Wemby so get

1124
01:34:11.920 --> 01:34:15.760
and you have to have some protection
on it, for sure, some lottery

1125
01:34:15.800 --> 01:34:17.560
protection. But I would like to
see that from the Pistons, and they

1126
01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:20.840
have them moved down, So that's
the number one thing. If they sat

1127
01:34:20.960 --> 01:34:28.039
right there and read Shepherd from Kentucky
was still on the board, that would

1128
01:34:28.039 --> 01:34:38.000
be my selection. When I look
across at the mock drafts for the Detroit

1129
01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:45.680
Pistons, almost all of them have
the Pistons taken the Lithuanian Matteas and boozellis

1130
01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:50.239
boozellis, So we'll see what they're
able to come away with there. Now

1131
01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:54.800
for the Red Wings, and again
you can call us, you can text

1132
01:34:54.840 --> 01:35:00.600
this I mentioned, you can also
tweet at us at XB Mornings and at

1133
01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:08.000
Dennis Fithian, and Terry has done
exactly that. He is saying that he

1134
01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:13.000
did not like Paul Wood's idea for
a play in game because he says no

1135
01:35:13.079 --> 01:35:15.880
need for a play in game.
The Detroit Red Wings needed one more point

1136
01:35:16.079 --> 01:35:23.000
two regular season losses to the Coyotes
down the stretch crippled them. They left

1137
01:35:23.119 --> 01:35:27.279
too many points on the table.
They did leave too many points on the

1138
01:35:27.319 --> 01:35:31.319
table. I had not considered a
play in game but for of the teams

1139
01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:36.880
being tied there at the end.
But I do have to admit the NBA.

1140
01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:41.680
I didn't like their idea of a
play in game either. I mean,

1141
01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:45.960
you got half the teams in the
playoffs anyways in the NHL. In

1142
01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:53.760
NBA, meanwhile, the play in
game I like. I have liked the

1143
01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:56.399
play in game in the NBA,
and if it works in the NBA,

1144
01:35:56.600 --> 01:35:59.079
well why not. I'm not even
talking about if they're tied. I'm just

1145
01:35:59.159 --> 01:36:08.000
talking about get a playing game in
the NHL anyways. The counter in the

1146
01:36:08.119 --> 01:36:13.000
NHL would be like NBA rarely,
although you know we had the Miami Heat

1147
01:36:13.159 --> 01:36:17.720
going to the finals last year,
it happens much more often in the NHL.

1148
01:36:17.760 --> 01:36:21.159
So even could a ten seed go
all the way to the Stanley Cup

1149
01:36:21.159 --> 01:36:30.319
Finals, you would have a lot
more statistically, I guess historically you would

1150
01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:35.560
have that chance than in the NBA. So I you know, it's just

1151
01:36:35.560 --> 01:36:40.199
something I hadn't thought about, but
I am thinking about it now. So

1152
01:36:41.000 --> 01:36:45.399
there you go. All right,
So the table loaded for you for the

1153
01:36:45.439 --> 01:36:53.319
moves for the Pistons and the wings. Free agency for the Pistons. You

1154
01:36:53.319 --> 01:36:58.039
know, would I like to see
them make a big splash? Yes,

1155
01:36:58.279 --> 01:37:03.039
I would, and I think,
but at the same time I also have

1156
01:37:03.119 --> 01:37:09.159
to be you know, kind of
realistic. But could the Pistons throw a

1157
01:37:09.319 --> 01:37:17.760
ton of money at og and an
Obi and or Damar DeRozan, Yes,

1158
01:37:17.840 --> 01:37:25.439
they could. Those are the the
Tier one big swings that I would like

1159
01:37:25.479 --> 01:37:30.359
to see from Trajan Langdon. The
Knicks don't want Anonobi going anywhere, and

1160
01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:39.920
Derosan is the Pistons are rarely a
free agent destination. So but they do

1161
01:37:40.039 --> 01:37:44.720
have the money. I got sixty
mili around there in cap space, so

1162
01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:50.039
they can float out a gigantic number. But those the Tier one. After

1163
01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:57.039
that, you're getting to a situation
where you need to there's a controversial I

1164
01:37:57.039 --> 01:38:04.279
don't know. Miles Bridges played at
Michigan State, so he's a local product

1165
01:38:04.560 --> 01:38:11.439
the high school in Michigan two.
I think he ended up most of the

1166
01:38:11.479 --> 01:38:14.600
good players end up, you know, going out of state. But you

1167
01:38:14.640 --> 01:38:18.319
know he's from the state of talking
about high school for Bridges, but he's

1168
01:38:18.359 --> 01:38:26.800
got multiple domestic violent situations against him
that and really just in the last couple

1169
01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:28.760
of years. So you know,
that's a big deal. That's a big

1170
01:38:28.800 --> 01:38:32.880
swing, that's a big risk.
That is something that gets you fired.

1171
01:38:33.119 --> 01:38:36.960
You know, the Pistons are the
in the worst situation, one of the

1172
01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:43.039
you know bottom three situations with the
roster and everything, and now you're taking

1173
01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:45.600
a gigantic gamble and give it a
ton of money out a guy who's got

1174
01:38:45.600 --> 01:38:50.199
a you know, multiple issues in
the past couple of years. That would

1175
01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:56.720
be a huge gamble, but one
maybe that they could make if you're the

1176
01:38:56.720 --> 01:38:59.479
Pistons, But you know, Langdon
could be out before it even starts.

1177
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:04.760
Things go sideways with that. But
the moves that Tier one An andob DeRozan

1178
01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:11.680
throw all your money that way.
Let's let's let's try that one. I

1179
01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:15.359
give you a wings move. Looking
for your Game seven's moments or your just

1180
01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:20.399
favorite Game seven in its entirety eight
six six, eight three eight forty eight

1181
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forty three. That's the number.
Here are on Nexis and Bros. And

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That is fifty in here on Ex's
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Coming up at eight thirty five,
should the Tigers trade Derek Scooble,

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who else would they trade? We'll
hit on that coming up this hour.

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Right now, We've got a couple
of things for you. We're looking at

1207
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Game Seven's your favorite Game seven,
your favorite Game seven moment? And with

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both the draft and free agency playing
out this week in the NHL and NBA,

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we're looking for a move you would
like to see from the Wings or

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the Pistons eight six six eight three
eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer

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Hotline. That's eight sixty six eight
three eight forty eight forty three. We

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You tweet at XB mornings. I'm on

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Twitter at Dennis Fifthy and you can
get it done that way. Now I

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have given you both a moment and
my favorite game seven. Both of them

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are coming from the Red Wings in
ninety six. My moment was the Eiserman

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double overtime winner and inn O two
was the Wings Avs Wings winning that game

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seven nothing to win the seven year
war by taking down the Abs, who

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they met five times over that seven
years, by a total of three playoff

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wins to the Avs two. And
what a great time it was to watch

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the game now, that overtime winner
from Eisam And I can recall being a

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board op in radio, and now
you know, you know, Ben probably

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01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:15.960
has all the different you know tech
me age to be able to record the

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television. He just you know,
lifts up a pot and you know he

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he's able to record that probably digitally
right in there that you could cut up

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that sound. Back in ninety six, that's not the way it was working

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at the radio station that I was
at. I had to crank up the

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01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:40.039
mic stand all the way up to
this TV that sat on the stack of

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01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:44.880
radio stuff, so I had to
crank the microphone and I put it right

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01:43:44.960 --> 01:43:48.479
on the speaker of the TV and
then turn the TV up. That's how

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01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:54.880
I was getting the audio, and
I always liked to play that audio a

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01:43:54.920 --> 01:44:00.159
lot of the Winner I might have
had CBCN I think so was it Bob

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01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:06.199
Cole who recently passed away, the
great Bob Cole cars whatever it was,

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01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:11.359
I believe that is how it went
down. You know, I haven't thought

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01:44:11.359 --> 01:44:16.800
about it for thirty years, but
not quite thirty years, but no,

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01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:24.800
I guess it is. So.
The thing is that if you really listen

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01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:29.760
to that odio, you can hear
me actually yelling in the background, and

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01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:32.399
I always like that one. All
right, So we're looking for your favorite

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01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:36.800
Game seven or favorite Game seven moments
and a move you'd like to see the

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01:44:36.840 --> 01:44:41.880
Wings or the Pistons make. I've
gone through a number of moves for the

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01:44:41.920 --> 01:44:47.359
Pistons. I want to see Brego
as their head coach. I would like

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01:44:47.439 --> 01:44:50.960
to see them trade back with the
Spurs, who are going to want to

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01:44:50.960 --> 01:44:55.760
get two of these three frenchmen and
pick up a first round pick if they

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01:44:55.760 --> 01:45:03.439
stay where they're at. I'd like
Reed Shepherd. But I do give all

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01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:09.039
of the mock drafters a nod,
who say take the Lithuanian Bussellis. I've

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01:45:09.079 --> 01:45:13.640
watched two minutes of Bussellus, and
I've watched a couple of games from Read

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01:45:13.720 --> 01:45:16.840
Shepherd. But the thing I like
about Shepherd is that he shoots fifty percent

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01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:24.239
from downtown, and I want to
see the Pistons be able to knock down

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01:45:24.279 --> 01:45:28.880
some shots from three point land.
The team that took the most three point

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01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:33.119
shots of this year in the NBA, the Boston Celtics. The team that

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01:45:33.239 --> 01:45:39.199
made the most three point shots in
the NBA this year, the Boston Celtics.

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The way the league is, you
need to be able to hoist a

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bunch and you need to be able
to knock him down. What does Shepherd

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01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:51.439
do? He is a dead eyed
shooter from downtown. That's my reasoning and

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01:45:51.479 --> 01:45:56.319
why I like Read Shepherd. He
seems to have moved up. I was

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01:45:56.359 --> 01:46:02.600
looking at maybe a month or two
ago, the draft, and Shepherd wasn't

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01:46:02.760 --> 01:46:08.039
being looked at as a top five
player. He is now, so he

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might not even be there for the
Pistons, but it's in a spot that

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he's around where he's gonna go,
and I like what he brings to the

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01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:24.039
table, and he definitely is bringing
something that the Pistons need in three point

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01:46:24.039 --> 01:46:30.279
shooting. That's my reasoning there.
Now the free agent side'd like one of

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the Tier one guys at least in
my mind that are achievable for the Pistons

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01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:42.479
and Anenobi or DeRozan for the Red
Wings. When I think about what I

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01:46:42.479 --> 01:46:48.199
want to see from them, I
would like to see, you know,

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I would like to see Patrick Kane
be resigned. Now we understand about the

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01:46:59.199 --> 01:47:02.479
money situation, and you know,
he's gonna go wherever. Like most of

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01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:08.960
the players, they're gonna get the
most. But even though that the Wings

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01:47:09.039 --> 01:47:12.159
need to get if it was going
to be it's hard to give it like

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01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.439
a blanket statement, but if I
was going to the Wings needed to get

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bigger and better on defense and not
necessarily on the blue line. They needed

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01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:30.760
like so, Lucas Raymond is,
you know, five ten, five eleven

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as a left winger. To brink
it is diminutive at the right wing.

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He's five eight. Now Patrick Kane
is thirty five years old and he's five

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to ten, So that really goes
against what I'm saying, but I'd liked

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01:47:48.600 --> 01:47:56.399
King so much last year in a
Red Wings uniform. He brought the most

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01:47:56.439 --> 01:48:02.319
excitement to the team. I would
like to see them a sign Patrick Kane

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and then they need to go out
there and Iserman knows this they need to

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find I guess you don't have to
be you know, six two, but

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you need to be better defensively,
even as a forward that this team is

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01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:27.439
looking for. So that's my thought
on a move that I would like to

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01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:33.840
see the Red Wings make. When
it comes down to it, Isaman seems

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01:48:34.039 --> 01:48:41.239
that he's knows what he's doing draft
wise, even though he doesn't get the

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01:48:41.279 --> 01:48:43.760
kind of picks that you would have
liked over the past couple of years,

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01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:47.600
he has gone up if Iaman,
whatever the mark drafts say, I'll bet

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that Iserman goes somewhere different than what
all the other experts think. That would

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01:48:54.680 --> 01:49:01.880
be my prediction on what will happen
with Wings with the Red Wings anyways.

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So yeah, my favorite Game sevens
for the moment and game are both from

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the Red Wings. But if I
had to go back, and I think

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I was just thinking of this,
well, have the Tigers played any memorable

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01:49:19.680 --> 01:49:24.439
Game sevens? And the answer is
yes, but it's been a long time

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since they have done that. Now, they had the Divisional Series, which

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01:49:31.760 --> 01:49:38.239
was just five games, so it
was like a game seven. I can

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recall, you know, Verlander pitching
against the A's, and I think he

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01:49:44.319 --> 01:49:47.960
had to do it twice in two
game fives. I think he pitched against

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01:49:48.000 --> 01:49:54.399
It wasn't its sunny Gray and Verlander
in both of those games in twenty thirteen

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01:49:54.720 --> 01:49:59.760
and in twenty twelve in the divisional
series, I think so. So those

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are game sevens, but technically not
game sevens. So I go back if

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I am going to game seven's.
No, I'm not going all the way

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back to nineteen oh nine or forty
five when the Tigers did win in a

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game seven, and but I will
go to nineteen sixty eight. Nineteen sixty

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01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:28.279
eight, the Tigers in a game
seven, pretty memorable. It's before my

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01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:30.920
time, but I feel like I
can recite chapter in Verse about the sixty

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eight World Series and what went on
there. Now, speaking of baseball,

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01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:43.079
so the Tigers trade Derek Schouble.
I will give you that answer, my

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answer straight ahead, and we'll continue
taking your calls and reading your text.

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to you, Dennis Fitth the inn in

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for Matt Shephard on Ex's and Rose
across Michigan this morning. It's great to

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01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:32.359
be with you and we get a
lot of good topics for you. I

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01:53:32.399 --> 01:53:38.119
said it. Going to talk about
trek Scougle, and should the Tigers trade

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01:53:39.119 --> 01:53:45.479
their southpaw Ace away and others one
of the things that we're hitting on this

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01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:49.039
morning. My answer is no.
I'll get to the reason coming up here.

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01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:54.479
You can weigh in on that.
We also are asking you about your

1341
01:53:54.479 --> 01:54:01.439
favorite Game seven or favorite Game seven
moment. Panthers Anders playing in a Game

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01:54:01.720 --> 01:54:11.359
seven tonight. You may have heard
also in the NHL and the NBA they

1343
01:54:11.359 --> 01:54:15.079
both have their drafts this week,
and they both have free agency at the

1344
01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:19.840
end of this week. So and
Pistons need a new head coach and they've

1345
01:54:19.840 --> 01:54:25.760
got the number five pick. So
asking you about the moves that you want

1346
01:54:25.800 --> 01:54:29.039
to see these teams make. A
move you would like to see the Red

1347
01:54:29.039 --> 01:54:32.760
Wings and or Pistons make. That's
out there in addition to the Game seven

1348
01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:40.680
question. So you can put it
in on feedback by texting Sports Radio to

1349
01:54:40.680 --> 01:54:44.159
twenty one thousand, or you can
give us a call eight sixty six eight

1350
01:54:44.279 --> 01:54:49.079
three, eight forty eight forty eight
forty three. That's the Meyer hotline.

1351
01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:58.520
Now when it comes to Terrek Scoubele, so the Tigers are out of it,

1352
01:54:59.279 --> 01:55:08.239
and they would fetch a ton of
prospects. It would be a bolt

1353
01:55:08.279 --> 01:55:16.399
load of high tier prospects, schoolbuls
under control. He's twenty seven years old,

1354
01:55:17.119 --> 01:55:24.800
He's flashed greatness all of these teams. You do a quick search on

1355
01:55:25.119 --> 01:55:30.720
MLB rumors or MLB trades, there's
a lot of sites that are committed to

1356
01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:33.880
such things and you see Schooble's name
pop it up everywhere. You see all

1357
01:55:33.920 --> 01:55:40.600
the different fan sites for the different
teams. The Braves, here's the package

1358
01:55:40.720 --> 01:55:45.319
that I've seen the Braves, I've
seen the Yankees. Teams are very interested

1359
01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:50.479
obviously in adding a front line starter. You want to say he is a

1360
01:55:50.560 --> 01:55:55.359
one, however, you know he
fits in with the Braves or with the

1361
01:55:55.439 --> 01:55:58.399
Yankees. He's a frontline starter,
and he's the kind of guy that could

1362
01:55:58.399 --> 01:56:01.039
push you over the top and when
World Series. So these teams are going

1363
01:56:01.119 --> 01:56:05.560
to put together a treasure trave of
prospects to fork over for the Tigers.

1364
01:56:06.199 --> 01:56:11.319
Now, I never say never if
somebody's sitting there and uh, I've got

1365
01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:16.159
what I think, will you know
would be a fair and somebody's then goes

1366
01:56:16.239 --> 01:56:23.960
over the top on me. Okay, But in theory, as I'm sitting

1367
01:56:23.960 --> 01:56:27.920
here with schoobl I understand the other
side of the equation, like you want

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01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:30.880
to get everybody coming up together,
and the Tigers are, you know,

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01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:35.680
three or four years away. You
know, I get that part. I

1370
01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:45.960
also get the part that you have
a twenty seven year old ace and I'm

1371
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:48.439
looking at Schooble being a front end. If you don't want to say he's

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01:56:48.439 --> 01:56:51.840
going to be the number one for
eight years, I feel like he can

1373
01:56:51.880 --> 01:57:00.359
be a legitimate frontline starter for the
Tigers for eight years. So he's thirty

1374
01:57:00.359 --> 01:57:04.000
five years old, and yeah,
you're gonna have to give them at some

1375
01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:08.199
point a boatload of money. Maybe
they could buy them out and so those

1376
01:57:08.319 --> 01:57:12.600
arbitration years and get them at a
lower number for Florida, whatever it is.

1377
01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:20.880
I would like to keep the most
valuable commodity in baseball in a Southpaw

1378
01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:28.119
to boot on a team that doesn't
have anything else really to you know,

1379
01:57:28.439 --> 01:57:30.439
I shouldn't say that they've got a
couple other things, let's be fair.

1380
01:57:31.520 --> 01:57:41.239
Riley Green's a nice piece, but
schoolball, no the Tigers, and nobody's

1381
01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:46.760
anticipating them, even if they were
gonna spend a bunch of money competing out

1382
01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:55.560
of nowhere next year. But I
gotta believe that an organization. You know

1383
01:57:55.640 --> 01:57:59.800
you used to say the five year
plan. I don't know, Scott Harris.

1384
01:57:59.800 --> 01:58:05.000
Are are we really looking at a
five year plan from Harris, who's

1385
01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:13.479
in his second full season. Well, even if I went that way three

1386
01:58:13.600 --> 01:58:17.000
more years, Schoolbol is going to
be thirty years old in this five year

1387
01:58:17.119 --> 01:58:24.119
plan for Scott Harris, I gotta
believe that he is going to be one

1388
01:58:24.159 --> 01:58:27.560
of the better pitchers, if not
the best pitcher in baseball. He's going

1389
01:58:27.600 --> 01:58:33.359
to be on your team thirty years
old and a five year plan. I

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01:58:33.479 --> 01:58:42.880
want an eighth I understand that he's
going to cost money, so I want

1391
01:58:42.880 --> 01:58:49.039
to keep Trek's scooble in Motown,
and I don't want to trade him unless

1392
01:58:49.199 --> 01:58:57.640
I am knocked over with the prospect
hall of one of these teams are going

1393
01:58:57.720 --> 01:59:01.800
to put together like the Braves or
the Yankees. What do you think about

1394
01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:06.760
that? Eight sixty six, eight
three, eight forty eight forty three on

1395
01:59:06.880 --> 01:59:13.520
the Meyer Hotline, I go back
to these game sevens, and my favorite

1396
01:59:13.560 --> 01:59:17.000
are the Red Wings. If I
was old enough, I would say the

1397
01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:25.119
Tigers. In nineteen sixty eight,
the Tigers were down three games to one

1398
01:59:25.279 --> 01:59:32.159
to the Saint Louis Cardinals. I
would imagine that the talk shows and Twitter

1399
01:59:32.319 --> 01:59:39.800
was blowing up in sixty eight about
the Tigers blowing it. They would not

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01:59:41.439 --> 01:59:48.439
after one hundred win season, win
the World Series. They would lose it

1401
01:59:48.479 --> 01:59:56.319
to Bob Gibson in the Cardinals.
But the Tigers ripped off three in a

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01:59:56.399 --> 02:00:06.680
row. Danny not Denny McClain of
it'll come to me, it comes back,

1403
02:00:06.880 --> 02:00:15.239
and the Tigers are able to win
the sixty eight World Series. You

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02:00:15.279 --> 02:00:25.600
know, it doesn't qualify because they
weren't down three, but they definitely would

1405
02:00:25.600 --> 02:00:33.399
classify as a great comeback being down
three games to one and beating Bob Gibbs

1406
02:00:33.399 --> 02:00:41.439
and Mickey Lolich, thank you.
It was the the MVP, and it

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02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:47.039
pitched. It's an amazing it's an
amazing feat. How many games he pitched,

1408
02:00:47.239 --> 02:00:51.079
the amount of innings that he threw, the amount of rest that he

1409
02:00:51.199 --> 02:00:59.399
had. It's really one of the
great feats in all of baseball what Mickey

1410
02:00:59.399 --> 02:01:03.560
Lolich was was able to do for
the Tigers. McLean won thirty one games

1411
02:01:03.600 --> 02:01:08.279
in the regular season, but it
was Lolich in the World Series that was

1412
02:01:08.319 --> 02:01:11.439
able to, uh, you know, to get that done with them coming

1413
02:01:11.520 --> 02:01:15.119
back like that, So that would
be the one for the Tigers. It's

1414
02:01:15.159 --> 02:01:18.000
a pretty rich history when you think
about the Pistons, but you just have

1415
02:01:18.079 --> 02:01:25.560
to be old enough to go back. The'se going to work Pistons In four

1416
02:01:27.960 --> 02:01:36.520
they they had a a a run
of six straight Eastern Conference Finals. And

1417
02:01:38.000 --> 02:01:41.880
part of their going to work they
were the some was better than the individual

1418
02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:45.800
parts. They played as a team. I'm talking about this four Pistons era

1419
02:01:46.920 --> 02:01:50.319
they had. Didn't they have four
players go to the All Star Game?

1420
02:01:50.560 --> 02:01:54.439
And the All Star Game, you
know, even back then, was a

1421
02:01:54.439 --> 02:01:59.039
complete joke. And they put four
Pistons out there on the floor with Paul

1422
02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:03.800
Pierce, and they made this huge
run by playing as a team even in

1423
02:02:03.840 --> 02:02:09.159
the All Star Game. It was
just such an aberration, but Piston fans

1424
02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:14.199
loved it. It was you know, they had their hard hats on.

1425
02:02:14.800 --> 02:02:18.399
It was all of that. But
one of the things that I recall about

1426
02:02:18.640 --> 02:02:23.760
the going to work Pistons is that
if Chauncey Billups would say it, because

1427
02:02:23.800 --> 02:02:30.199
they would put themselves in a really
peculiar situation or peculiar situations in series where

1428
02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:34.239
they would get down three games to
two and have to go on the road

1429
02:02:34.279 --> 02:02:39.159
and win a New Jersey, they
would get down three games to one and

1430
02:02:39.279 --> 02:02:43.039
have to come back and win the
series. And Chauncey after one of those

1431
02:02:43.039 --> 02:02:47.680
series said, Chauncey, how do
you explain this team when your backs are

1432
02:02:47.720 --> 02:02:50.840
against the wall, that you guys
play your best basketball when everybody has you

1433
02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:54.760
count it out? And what did
he say? If it ain't rough,

1434
02:02:54.800 --> 02:03:03.479
it ain't right. Pistons could have
won back to back, but they lost

1435
02:03:03.520 --> 02:03:10.000
in a game seven in the finals
to the Spurs. In that series,

1436
02:03:10.079 --> 02:03:15.720
Rashid Wallace doesn't guard Robert or at
the palace. The Spurs win that game.

1437
02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:20.680
That doesn't happen that the Pistons win
back to back, but they also

1438
02:03:20.760 --> 02:03:30.119
beat the Heat in five in seven
games. In four they beat the Nets

1439
02:03:30.119 --> 02:03:35.239
in seven games to win the championship. A lot of people wanted to say

1440
02:03:35.239 --> 02:03:42.439
they swept the Lakers gentlemen's sweep or
five games sweep over the Lakers, because

1441
02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:46.239
the Lakers did. They win Game
one. However, it was but even

1442
02:03:46.319 --> 02:03:56.079
the year before it was the famous
Magic Game. I say famous because it

1443
02:03:56.079 --> 02:04:01.800
was the first round series. And
what was famous is that t MAC after

1444
02:04:01.920 --> 02:04:09.319
the the Orlando Magic had gone up
three games to one. T MAC was

1445
02:04:09.359 --> 02:04:12.640
like, it's great to win the
series, and did he put up like

1446
02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.720
the three games the one like he
had already cast the series and he had

1447
02:04:15.760 --> 02:04:19.840
already you know, put the the
magic into the to the next series.

1448
02:04:19.840 --> 02:04:25.000
And of course the Pistons came back
and and UH and won that series.

1449
02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:30.159
If someone that really knows history of
the Pistons, then you go back from

1450
02:04:30.920 --> 02:04:35.439
the going to work Pistons to the
bad Boys, and the bad Boys I

1451
02:04:35.439 --> 02:04:44.239
think I think their Game seven history
UH is not as good. It was

1452
02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:49.840
close to being a situation where they
could have won a couple more championships easily

1453
02:04:50.399 --> 02:04:56.199
if you go through it now.
They did beat the Bulls in ninety Michael

1454
02:04:56.319 --> 02:05:01.560
Jordan on their way to UH win
back to back titles in the Eastern Conference

1455
02:05:01.600 --> 02:05:06.680
Finals. Beating the Bulls and Jordan
in a Game seven pretty big deal when

1456
02:05:06.760 --> 02:05:11.359
you think about the history and what
was that stake there. If you go

1457
02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:16.239
to eighty nine when they won their
first championship, they just mowed through everyone.

1458
02:05:16.920 --> 02:05:21.399
But this is where you start going
back the year before. They lost

1459
02:05:21.439 --> 02:05:28.680
to the Lakers in seven, But
in Game six, I think Isaiah scored

1460
02:05:28.720 --> 02:05:31.159
twenty five points in the first quarter. That was the one where Kareem,

1461
02:05:32.159 --> 02:05:36.920
there was a phantom fall on Bill
Lambier. That's the one where you're feeling

1462
02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:43.039
like the Pistons got robbed where they
could have beat the Lakers. The year

1463
02:05:43.079 --> 02:05:50.279
before that was when Isaiah threw the
ball away in the Boston Garden where the

1464
02:05:50.279 --> 02:05:54.920
Pistons win that game, they're gonna
win. Everyone knows that they would have

1465
02:05:55.680 --> 02:05:59.199
gone to the finals that year,
but they lost to the Celtics in seven.

1466
02:05:59.279 --> 02:06:02.079
So look at capping. They lost
to the Lakers, and in seven

1467
02:06:02.479 --> 02:06:05.479
the year before they lost to the
Celtics and seven they would have been to

1468
02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:12.520
the finals. This is how close
the Detroit Pistons were to not only winning

1469
02:06:12.520 --> 02:06:17.600
two, but to win it but
easily. You talk about winning three championships,

1470
02:06:17.720 --> 02:06:24.800
then you're talking about a team.
Because they do. Isaiah gets short

1471
02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:30.239
changed in history, and so did
the Pistons team, even though they went

1472
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:34.399
back to back. They get short
changed a little bit, certainly overshadowed by

1473
02:06:34.439 --> 02:06:43.000
the Bulls in Jordan, but a
couple of those Game sevens throwing the ball

1474
02:06:43.039 --> 02:06:47.079
away when the game was over to
bird they're getting to the finals there,

1475
02:06:47.960 --> 02:06:53.600
Kareem, you go back and look, I mean the plane of verticality,

1476
02:06:53.720 --> 02:07:00.640
Lambier, he's leaning just a little. He doesn't touch come close to Kareem.

1477
02:07:01.319 --> 02:07:05.800
You know, you're talking about another
championship there. So those are the

1478
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:12.119
kind of things that you're taking a
look at. All right, Freddy has

1479
02:07:12.720 --> 02:07:16.239
found us on Twitter and he's got
a couple of things to get into here.

1480
02:07:16.399 --> 02:07:24.279
He says his best game seven was
in nineteen ninety one. He says,

1481
02:07:24.560 --> 02:07:34.159
Morris and Smoltz. Now you've got
the two former Tiger pitchers in that

1482
02:07:34.239 --> 02:07:41.640
game. Smolts to the Braves,
Morris to the Twins. Did Morris pitch

1483
02:07:41.800 --> 02:07:47.079
ten innings in that game? It
was? That was an incredible game seven.

1484
02:07:48.319 --> 02:07:56.079
Two great pitchers, two Hall of
famers going at it in a duel.

1485
02:07:56.520 --> 02:07:59.359
You know that's going to be up
there. That's a great one.

1486
02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:05.359
He also adds the Marlins and Indians
and says, in a way, both

1487
02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:11.359
of those are Tigers related because you
had Dombrowski winning his first as a GM

1488
02:08:11.760 --> 02:08:18.760
and Jim Leland was the skipper for
the Marlins there winning his only World Series.

1489
02:08:18.239 --> 02:08:26.039
Good point there. Freddie also playing
the angle of the Oilers winning tonight,

1490
02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:31.000
saying that Ken Holland will win a
Cup as GM before the Wings get

1491
02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:37.960
to the playoffs with Steve Eiserman,
and he says, Stevie never won a

1492
02:08:37.960 --> 02:08:43.800
Cup as a GM with the Lightning. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.

1493
02:08:45.279 --> 02:08:50.960
If you were telling me that when
Isserman was coming in that Ken Holland

1494
02:08:50.800 --> 02:08:56.600
would win a Stanley Cup before the
Red Wings even made it to the playoffs,

1495
02:08:56.600 --> 02:09:03.520
I would have taken that bet for
sure. And I mentioned Bob Cole

1496
02:09:03.640 --> 02:09:09.000
calling that Eiserman goal against the Blues
in ninety six. Freddy says, today

1497
02:09:09.079 --> 02:09:16.880
is Bob Cole's birthday. How about
that wrapping it all up nice and neat,

1498
02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:20.439
making things look pretty good. I
hear you on that. Those are

1499
02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:31.399
some good feedbacks there from Freddy,
whose knowledge of sports is top notch when

1500
02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:37.039
you walk all the way through it
and get to it. You know,

1501
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there's been a lot to talk about
the Pistons, and you know Tom Gorris

1502
02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:46.800
spoke last week, and you know
they bought out Monty Williams for so much

1503
02:09:46.840 --> 02:09:52.680
money. When Tom Gorris bought the
Pistons and he has not won a playoff

1504
02:09:52.720 --> 02:09:58.479
game, he bought them for three
hundred and twenty five million. The current

1505
02:09:58.720 --> 02:10:15.079
value euation of the Trite Pistons is
three point one billion, Gorris. I

1506
02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:22.359
imagine the factor in the liquidating of
the palace and then the sweetheart deal you

1507
02:10:22.399 --> 02:10:28.520
know that he has. But I'm
sure Gorris when everybody's like, hey,

1508
02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:31.720
you're an absent to your owner.
You know, nobody likes you. They're

1509
02:10:31.760 --> 02:10:35.880
booing you. Your team's a big
loser, I'm sure he wants to say,

1510
02:10:35.039 --> 02:10:39.159
dude, I'm a big winner.
When it comes down, we're not

1511
02:10:39.199 --> 02:10:43.960
winning on the floor, but we're
winning off the floor. He imagine.

1512
02:10:43.760 --> 02:10:50.119
I mean he's the worst, like
the product on the floor, the absolute

1513
02:10:50.159 --> 02:10:56.760
worst ever. But a lot of
people say, you know where accounts is

1514
02:10:56.800 --> 02:11:01.760
the bank account and Gorris, after
everybody's hey, you're a big loser.

1515
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That's tough. Oh you had to
cough up seventy seven million hill, Gorris

1516
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is like, I'm worth three point
one billed for them, just the pistons

1517
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I paid three twenty five for him. He feels like he's the champion.

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I'm sure he feels like that.
All right, Hey, thanks to ben

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