WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.199 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.479 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.280 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football for everybody, I think this 6 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.640 at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.679 great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care if 11 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.640 you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:12.799 telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matters, Yeah, 13 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:17.079 like we said yesterday, it really matters when you're playing in the Division 14 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:22.599 two, doesn't it? Welcome everybody on a Wednesday morning, You get through 15 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:27.120 this day and you are halfway home, right, more than half way home 16 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:32.239 for the week. Meyer hotlines open three eight six six eight three eight forty 17 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.799 eight forty three. This is Exus and Bros. Monday through Friday six till 18 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.319 nine. Ben is our producer. I'm chef, glad you're with US. 19 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:45.359 Royals blowout the Tigers ten to three. Casey bangs out fifteen hits on the 20 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.200 day. Bobby Witt Junior goes nuts three for four, drills two homers, 21 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.480 drives in six swipes a bag. Mike el Garcia goes four for five with 22 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:00.040 three runs scored. Casey mys saddle with the Laws, allowing six runs and 23 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:09.879 nine hits and his shortest outing of his career. Casey maize. In these 24 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:15.680 first five starts, the Tigers were winners. In his last four starts, 25 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:22.280 the Tigers have been losers. He lasted just one and two thirds innings, 26 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.520 and his forty eighth career started with just one and two thirds innings. The 27 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:37.879 six runs allowed a career high nine hits allowed, a career high ugly in 28 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:43.000 more ways than one. We'll get to that coming up. Just how good 29 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:47.800 has Kansas City been? Hey, you know, just because I didn't think 30 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:54.400 they were going to be this good doesn't mean that they're the biggest surprise in 31 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:59.560 baseball. Maybe we should have seen it coming. I don't know. We 32 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:05.879 know that Bobby Wood Junior is one of the best players in the American League. 33 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:10.680 And that's not saying too much. And I mean that he's really flipping 34 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.919 good. Love the way that kid plays. He's a really trust me, 35 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:17.879 he's a really good kid. Doesn't mean you should root for him. I'm 36 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:23.680 just telling you he's really good. Kansas City has now won five in a 37 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:32.159 row. They've now won ten of thirteen. And get this, they're thirty 38 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:38.360 one wins through fifty games. So thirty one and nineteen thirty one wins through 39 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:46.439 fifteen or through fifty games. That's a plus sixteen from a year ago. 40 00:03:51.280 --> 00:04:01.439 That's incredible, an incredible turnaround. Last year, Kansas City hadn't won their 41 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:12.759 ninth series of the season until September. The middle of September, September fifteenth 42 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:18.639 through the seventeenth, the forty eighth series of the year, Kansas City won 43 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:31.199 their ninth series. You follow by beating Detroit yesterday they clinched their ninth series 44 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:40.920 win. Already You want more, I got it for you. Bobby Witt 45 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:49.959 Junior becomes just the third Royals player ever with two homers, a stolen base, 46 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:58.360 and six RBIs in the game. Who had the other two? Bo 47 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:06.720 Jackson, Carlos Beltron, You are more, We've got more. Bobby Wood 48 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:18.360 Junior is the third shortstop in history, third ever with two homers, a 49 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:23.399 stolen base and six RBIs in a game. Who are the other two? 50 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:32.879 One has a Michigan feel to it. Can you think of it? Cal 51 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:42.480 Ripken Junior and Barry Larkin who played at the University of Michigan. Bobby Wood 52 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:49.360 Junior's fourteenth career multi homer game or fourteenth career homer and stolen based game. 53 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:55.959 Excuse me. Since twenty twenty two, when he made his debut, he's 54 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.079 had fourteen games of a homer in a stolen base in the same game. 55 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.240 The only other man to do that since twenty twenty two is Ronald Acune Jr. 56 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:15.279 That's pretty damn good. And lastly, in Kansas City, even though 57 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:21.920 I've got more, Wit Junior's four hundred and sixty eight foot home run in 58 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:27.319 the second inning off Casey Meis is the third longest homer in the majors this 59 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:36.000 year. The only other guys to hit him further Aaron Judge and Mike Trout. 60 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:43.160 It doesn't matter how long the home run goes who cares of it's if 61 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.040 it's out of the ballpark or if it's a wall scraper, no big deal, 62 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:54.920 still counts. It's just really impressive. So the Tigers, what t 63 00:06:54.959 --> 00:07:01.759 hell's wrong with them? Do you have the same feeling sometimes that I do? 64 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:09.680 And that is, if Trek Scooble's not pitching, this team's not winning. 65 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.439 Resulson has been unbelievable, but he doesn't have a win and that's not 66 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:24.079 on him either. He's gotten eight runs of support in his nine starts. 67 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.040 Jack Flaherty's been really damn good. It's given you innings. Teams aren't hitting 68 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:38.199 very well against him, and yet look at where Detroit is at. Schooble 69 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:46.160 does pitch today. Tigers have lost three straight series. They've lost twelve of 70 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:53.439 their last seventeen games overall. Remember when they started so strong on the road. 71 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:58.319 I'm sure you do. You felt pretty damn good about what they were 72 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:05.639 doing. I was. It's fantastic. They started the year ten and three 73 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:09.639 on the road. Guess what, They've not lost nine of their last twelve 74 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:22.480 road games. So the problems get deeper. They are two games under five 75 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:33.279 hundred. That is a season worst. When you watch this team. Why 76 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.919 you're watching this team? But when you watch this team, what are you 77 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:43.279 thinking? Seriously, when you watch them, you go, this team is 78 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:54.039 uneventful. They're borderline boring. There's no oomph. Why can't they hit yesterday? 79 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.080 Why can't they pitch? Wit not only took My's yard, he took 80 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:09.200 Jason Foley yard. You look at the home runs combined Bibby Wood Junior total 81 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:15.200 eight hundred and ninety three feet of homers. Again, doesn't matter how far 82 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:20.399 they go, but it's so damn impressive. This team is not impressive. 83 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:26.039 This is not a little bit of a spell. It's not a series, 84 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.559 it's not a week. It's been a continuous theme. I'll continue to harp 85 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:37.120 on this because they said it earlier and I believe it. This team should 86 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.039 win this division, and they are. They have been a massive disappointment so 87 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:46.879 far. Are you there yet? Are you to the point where you know 88 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.960 what? It's no longer early because they're forty eight games deep, playing forty 89 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:54.120 nine tonight, myyer hotline's open for eight six, six, eight three eight 90 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.639 forty eight forty three. 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Get your tickets now at Meyer LPGA Classic dot Com. 106 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.879 Attention Tigers fans, you can now get fifteen percent off every ticket for select 107 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.919 games through May by going to Tigers dot com forward slash Huge Show. That's 108 00:11:39.960 --> 00:12:09.600 Tigers dot Com Forward Slash Huge Show. Well, you look forward to a 109 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:16.159 game all day long, you look forward to seeing I enjoy watching certain teams 110 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:22.600 play now. I don't know if it's even besides your own team. I 111 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.960 guess I've enjoyed Kansas City because they play a different style. For the most 112 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.440 part, fast team gets after you on the bases. I'm not going to 113 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.080 say last year was special because last year was awful for them, But I 114 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:41.919 do enjoy watching for the most part, certain players on their team. Play 115 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.960 Boys liked Bobby Wood Junior, FINNEYE. Pascantino is a pretty good player. 116 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.600 Michael Massey's got some skill. I don't have anybody that just makes you go, 117 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:54.759 oh my gosh, drop whatever you're doing and watch them outside of wit, 118 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:01.039 but they are a team that you enjoy watching. Of course, you 119 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:07.440 want to watch your team more than anybody else. And when you look forward 120 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.320 to that and they come up and they do what they did like yesterday, 121 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:20.480 really makes you to turn off. It's no two ways about it. It's 122 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:28.200 to turn off. And I realize you have to be very careful when it 123 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:39.559 comes to assessing any team right now. You can't go overboard and you know 124 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.519 you don't want it. It's hard to buy in with certain teams only because 125 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:50.639 you feel like you've been burned before, and only because there is a certain 126 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.960 track record. At some point, teams break the track record. At some 127 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.759 point, teams are like, you know what, we've been bad for an 128 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:03.279 extended period of time, Detroit Lions, and boom they find something. There 129 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:09.120 is some point during last year's Tiger season, maybe it's the year before when 130 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.200 they reeled off wins at the end of the year and we're really impressive in 131 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.120 doing so. However, at some point last year, you and your buddies 132 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.519 got together and said, you know what, I'm going to say the two 133 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:33.919 words that I never thought i'd say. I believe Okay, at some point 134 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:41.159 you said that during the Lion season, and at some point during this Kansas 135 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:46.159 City Royal season. I'm sure people in Kansas City were doing the same thing. 136 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:52.600 Not saying it's after fifteen games or twenty games, but perhaps now that 137 00:14:52.639 --> 00:15:01.159 they've played fifty games. Somebody is saying, I believe with the Tigers, 138 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.919 it's the other way around. At some point you're going to say the three 139 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:16.039 words. I don't believe. Where that is, I don't know. For 140 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:22.879 you. I haven't necessarily reached that point, but it is fair to say 141 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.200 you should be concerned that this team is eight and a half games back, 142 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:33.600 that they've lost three in a row, that they've lost three straight series, 143 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.399 that they can't seem to put a complete game together on a regular basis. 144 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:45.440 When you and I talk about this, we always understand one primary thing. 145 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:56.639 It's really hard in baseball. It is extremely difficult, extremely challenging to do 146 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:04.759 it time and time again. And this always goes back to what expectations call 147 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:11.919 for. What were your expectations at the beginning. That's when you know you 148 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:18.240 can be disappointed or not. If you didn't have any for this team because 149 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.919 it's not quite there yet, then what they're doing right now two games under 150 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:32.639 five hundred should not bother you. On the other hand, you look at 151 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:40.639 what Kansas City has done. Guaranteed, most people in Kansas City thought going 152 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:47.600 into the season that it would be that they were hopeful hopeful now that that 153 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:53.320 would be slightly better than last year's fifty six and one hundred and six record. 154 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:59.440 We have this belief in sports for some reason, the teams can only 155 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:06.680 make inc cremental improvements a little bit here, a little bit there, and 156 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:11.119 then we can finally make that jump. But it's not going to come all 157 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:18.079 at once. Why do we think that, I mean, says who depending 158 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.400 on how you improve your team in the offseason, who says you can't do 159 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:27.960 it. I've never believed that. What I do believe is you have to 160 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.960 have talent. You and I can talk all we want about how hard a 161 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:40.119 team works, the blood and sweat, the camaraderie, the chemistry, all 162 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:44.720 that stuff, but in the end, if you don't have enough talent, 163 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:53.640 it doesn't mean anything. And when you look at the Tigers, do you 164 00:17:53.839 --> 00:18:03.359 think they have the talent? I would have thought just as much, if 165 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.759 not more, than anybody else in the division. Notice I stressed in the 166 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:15.640 division. I'm not saying they have more talent than the Yankees or the Orioles, 167 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:21.000 or the Blue Jays, or the Rangers, or the Astros or even 168 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:27.079 the Mariners. But I thought they had as much, if not more depth 169 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.759 I'm not saying the best player, because the best player in the division is 170 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:40.480 Jose Ramirez, right, Yeah, He's the best player on the best team 171 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:48.519 in the division right now. Bobby with juniors in that conversation, Luis Robert 172 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:56.640 when he wants to play. That's really important is in that conversation. Carlos 173 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:06.079 Correa is in that conversation. Byron Buxton went healthy. Is generally in that 174 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:12.680 conversation. But from a depth standpoint, I thought they would have had enough 175 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:26.319 so far. I was wrong, really surprised that they have been this. 176 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:33.680 It's not even inconsistent. This is a long stretch. Man. You lose 177 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:42.319 twelve of seventeen makes you start to wonder. Bottom of the hour will replay 178 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:48.680 our interview from yesterday in case you missed it. Tim Lester the former quarterback 179 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:56.559 and head coach at Western Michigan, now the offensive coordinator at Iowa. He 180 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:07.680 talks of the challenge of regrouping an offense that was among the worst in Iowa 181 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:15.200 history a year ago. He talks of getting to know new players and the 182 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:19.319 challenges there. Gives us an example of what an offensive place sounds like in 183 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:26.880 the huddle, and because he spent time in Green Bay last year. He 184 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:32.720 gives us a snapshot of what his impressions are of the Detroit Lions. All 185 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:37.319 that with Tim Lester at six thirty five, just because we know at eight 186 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:42.279 thirty five yesterday maybe a lot of you were not listening, So we like 187 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:48.000 to replay a lot of those interviews that we found very interesting and I thought 188 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.839 it was a good one. We will talk of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals 189 00:20:52.880 --> 00:21:00.839 that began last night, thrilling theater between the Celtics and the Pacers. Preview 190 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:07.240 the Eastern Conference Finals in the NHL, and get to the NBA All Rookie 191 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:12.400 Team. 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