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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. For everybody, I

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

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

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

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

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That's a great thing about sports.
You play to win, and I don't

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care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When

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you start telling me it doesn't matter, I can retire. Get out for

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the matters, pitching matters in baseball. Done it. He's damn right,

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it does. Tigers have it.
They just don't have the offense. Again,

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it's a waste. Don't you feel
like it's a waste. Honestly,

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when you watch this team on a
regular basis, I know it's gonna be

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every once in a while, but
hell, you played forty two games.

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Man, you're twenty one up,
twenty one down. Reese Olsen was so

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damn good career best eight scoreless innings. Sixty of his ninety six pitches were

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for strikes. While I watch this
game, while I think of what this

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team needs to do to generate some
offense, do something different and to try

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something. When sil Perez had half
their hits and they had four, same

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with Miami. Okay, as I
watch it, I think, as a

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Tigers fan, you're probably going,
how in the world do you not get

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to this, dude, Ryan Weathers? They're not very good? Stop me

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if you think this is familiar,
that team's not very good, That team's

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offense is not very good at all. Who the hell is Ryan Weathers?

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How can he be taking a perfect
game into the sixth inning? How is

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he around the plate? Sixty seven
of his ninety seven pitches were for strikes?

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How is he around the played so
much and we can't hit him?

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Help me with that? Plays?
And then I stopped myself and I said,

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wait a minute, put yourself in
a mean Miami Marlins fan base,

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and what do you think they're saying? They're probably saying the same damn thing.

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They're going. First of all,
who the hell is Resoulson? So

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you and I know these people.
We know the Tigers, but most people,

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I mean, you gotta be a
serious baseball fan if you're knowing in

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a different market who Resoulson is.
He's made eighteen starts coming into the season

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in his career. He doesn't have
a win this year. So you can

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go to websites, Baseball Reference and
all that other stuff and look his numbers

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up and say, wow, he's
got a two point zero nine ERA.

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That's unbelievable. He's only given up
eleven earned runs in forty seven innings.

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That's impressive. That's fine, you
can do that. That doesn't mean you

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know who that guy is. Maybe
he gets on your radar. I don't

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know. But if you're a Miami
Marlins fan, that's what you're thinking.

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You what the hell's going on here? How come we can't hit this dude?

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Why in the world are we struggling
against a guy like this? Isn't

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this the kind of guy you're supposed
to get well against. I mean,

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at least Ryan Weathers has got a
couple of wins the Tigers couldn't do squat

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against him. And yes, here's
what you'll hear. And I get it.

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Lived it for a long time.
Baseball's really hard. Your offense is

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going to be a thing of it
goes, and it comes, and it

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comes and it goes. That's what's
going to happen in baseball. Get used

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to it. It happens with every
team. So you have to be able

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to do what you have to.
Be able to pitch, you have to

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be able to defend, but you
have to be able to do something different

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instead of just getting in there,
digging in the box, taking your hacks,

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give one for the team, do
anything you can to get on base,

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all those things. I don't care
if it's a cliche. I really

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don't. What I care about is
whether or not this team is going to

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be able to rectify its continuous offensive
issues. You had five base runners it

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four hits in one walk, and
yes I know they had four. All

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that was required was some type of
clutch performance. You had your chance.

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You had chances, groundball, double
play, pop up to third base,

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fly ball out to right. It's
not like he didn't have chances. They

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were limited. But that's going to
happen. They still might win this series.

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They're just a eh baseball team right
now. I was reading the other

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day at the quarter pole they were
giving the grades for teams in baseball.

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I know it's all these websites.
I get it. You and I are

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probably looking at it going Jesus,
Bet. I mean, you really got

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to fill some space here, don't
you. Yeah, they do. But

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sometimes it's nice to know what people
outside your market think, because in your

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market, people are so concerned about
pissing somebody off, not getting access.

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I've complained before about you gotta be
careful around certain athletes Tiger Woods, Lebron

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James, and Patrick Beverley. You
saw what happened there right a week ago

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or two weeks ago the Milwaukee Bucks
where he literally said to an ESPN producer,

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do you subscribe to my pod?
No? I don't, Okay,

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then get that mic out of my
face. Are you freaking kidding me?

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I have to subscribe to your podcast
now. You don't make enough money playing

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basketball. Now in order for me
to get an interview with you, I

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have to subscribe to your podcast,
you egotistical jackass. Are you kidding me?

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I'm in here doing my job,
and you're gonna limit me be because

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I don't subscribe to your podcast.
Think of that anyway. Sometimes people are

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so fearful of the repercussions they may
get writing broadcasting answering questions to other members

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of the media about certain athletes,
about certain coaches, about certain managers,

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about certain front office personnel. Oh, I'm not going to get any type

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of access, so I better be
nice in how I describe this pathetic,

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one nothing loss. So it's okay
to look at some of the national writers

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and see what they have to say
about it. What are the chances that

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this team is different than what I'm
seeing? Who knows? So I read

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this article and I'm pretty interested in
the various teams because I'd like to see

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what their grades were given that's sick
at the quarter pole now, and what

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those grades associated with are the same
in comparison to the Tigers. In other

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words, if the Tigers are given
a B, let's say, who else

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is getting to be and how do
I compare this team to that grade of

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that team. I'll tell you what
the Tigers got and who else got the

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know, we didn't have any opportunities, but the opportunity at the end,

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you know, when you get the
base runner at second to even extend the

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game. We've got a really deep
pen and I always feel like we're going

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to be able to hang in there, especially at home with the with the

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new extra inning rules. So you
know, you're not going to create opportunities

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all the time, especially when somebody
comes in and pitches as well as Weathers

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did. But you know, you
know, these are winnable games because of

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the of the closeness of the score, and when you get pitching like this,

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it does hurt to not capitalize aj
Hinch following his team's one nothing lost

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last night to Miami. The Miami
Marlins are now twelve and thirty two.

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Tigers dropped to five hundo. When
do you start looking at the standings,

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not just when you're bored. I'm
just wondering when they matter, Like five

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and a half back is not a
big deal. And what you'll get from

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anybody associated with the game of baseball, and rightfully so, by the way,

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is that it's early. That's one
of the favorite sayings in baseball.

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It's early. Twenty one and twenty
one forty two games. It is early.

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But you knew this was coming.
There are certain things we're noticing that

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make you a little concerned, right
I would think so if you're paying close

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enough attention. If you don't feel
like it's the overall record, that's fine.

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How do you get to the record? That's the question. How do

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you see this team right now?
What word comes to mind? Without trying

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to be overreacting or not overreacting.
The beauty of baseball is that there's plenty

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to come back from, you know, But it's also a situation that negativity

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can be every single day because you're
judging a team every single day. You

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can't do that in any other sport
because they don't play every day. Now,

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you can be negative every day about
certain football teams because you've got five

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days to complain about it before they
get back on the football field. But

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you understand where I'm coming from in
regards to baseball every single day. So

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what like, what grade would you
give the Detroit Tigers at the quarter pole?

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Cbssports dot Com gave them a C, which surprises me a little bit.

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There are they're They're not giving any
pluses or minuses. It's just a

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B, C, D, E
or F. Here's what they write.

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There are some good things happening in
Detroit. Riley Green might be the most

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improved hitter in baseball now. The
Tiger's pitching staff has been an asset to

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date. All true, I don't
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baseball. I'm not gonna sit here
and try to try to give view the

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statistics of every single player who is, you know, up from a year

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ago. I think people will immediately
look for Riley Green. They'll look at

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his home runs. That's why they
may think he is the perhaps the most

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improved hitter in baseball because he's up
to a pretty damn good start from a

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home run standpoint, and what you
look at, how you view a certain

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hitter and what numbers you're going to
use to associate with that hitter is up

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to the individual. Like two forty
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mean, you would say that's down
because last year he hit two eighty eight,

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But the home runs is what people
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this author is going, well,
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He only had eleven last year.
Yeah, last year's average was better.

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His OPS is down or was down
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His war was higher last year.
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Riley Green's numbers are better along with
the home runs. So I don't

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know what they're using as that definition. I would say he looks to be

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improved, but I wouldn't know if
he's the most improved hitter in baseball.

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I wouldn't go that far, but
they said he might be, so let's

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not nitpicked there. That said the
article rights, we felt like a C

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was as high as we could go
because of the greater circumstances. Right on,

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you're not giving them higher than a
C. If you're grading it based

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on different aspects of the team.
There are certain aspects you can give higher

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than a See they're pitching, you're
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But then when you look at their
offense and you give it a D,

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then it seems to balance out.
They say the Tigers are mired in

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fourth place thanks to some surprisingly good
starts and the Guardians and the Royals well,

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also because the Tigers start stinks and
they have some hard questions to answer

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about why former number one pick Spencer
Torkolsid and top prospect Cole Keith have started

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so poorly. If they can find
some hitting between now and the deadline,

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they might be in for an interesting
second half. As it is, this

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team feels like a five hundred club, give or take. There you go.

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That last sentence, is it we
have are open in the eight o'clock

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open The famous line from a movie
Stryan Russell Crowe Gladiator? Are you not

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entertained? Ask yourself? This is
this team entertaining? What does it take

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to entertain you? Is it wins
style of play? Combination of both?

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Does it have to be offense.
Those are the things that I asked myself

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when I watch this team a little
bit, I think that last line hits

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it right on the head. As
it is, this team feels like a

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five hundred club. They do.
They feel like a five hundred team.

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Who else got a C and you
can compare your team to There's only two

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other teams that this poll gave a
C grade two. One is the New

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York Mets, which sure as hell
shouldn't cut it considering they have one of

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the highest payrolls in all of baseball. They're under five hundred. The other

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C grade was given to the Washington
Nationals, who is slightly above five hundred.

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Well, they lost last night,
so no, there are a game

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under five hundred. They're twenty and
twenty one. Tigers basically have the same

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record as the Washington Nationals. At
the quarter pole. Washington they say better

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than expected. Mets, they say
some of their best players have underperformed.

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The thing out. The other thing
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this team is they're getting sure.
There are certain guys who are underperforming.

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There are certain players you look at
and you're like, I don't know,

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man, it's too bad about Torkos
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you think I'm not sure getting as
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Andy Vanyez Mark Canna is off to
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continue for a guy like Wenzil Perez? Is that possible? Sure? Or

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Shelley got hurt, but I expected
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Keith. I think you should be
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LPGA Classics dot com. Jazz who
takes strike three called It's a Slider and

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there's one away. He didn't love
it. Three two day La Cruz goes

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down fast forward to the attic two
away, one and two for Sanchez.

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There goes the bat, There goes
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The two two ground balled a second
off to the glove side. Debanya's feels

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three sixty spin, easy toss.
Another easy inning for Reese Olsen and the

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Tigers chext wing strike three. He
broke off another slider and the innings over

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threes goes up high for strike three
on Gordon one gone scround balled a second

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down. Do we need to field
it? Panyaz flips over the first?

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How about that outing for Reese Olsen? Eight shutout innings. He faces two

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batters over the minimum, doesn't walk
a batter, and strikes out six,

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just three hits allowed by results ninety
six pitches. I thought we might get

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some people complaining that they didn't get
enough, or they I should say,

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they didn't allow him to pitch long
enough. I'm okay with eight scoreless three

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hits, six innings, or I
mean six strikeouts. I'm okay with that.

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I would hope you would be too. That's not the question. The

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question comes back to the offense,
right absolutely, and that's what you're going

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to be hearing a lot about this
summer. I would guess you should also

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hear a lot about what's wrong with
Detroit's primary expect expected run producer or a

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guy who's supposed to stir some things, a guy who is supposed to be

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in the middle of it all,
hove Er Bias. This has been a

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mitigated disaster for the Tigers so far. He has just been awful. First

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year struggle mightily, batting two thirty
eight with an OBP of under three hundred,

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an OBP of under two eighty last
year to twenty two OBP worse.

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He has gotten worse since he has
been in Detroit. Two time All Star,

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one time Gold Glove, a Silver
slugger who finished second in the MVP

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in twenty eighteen. Twenty eighteen MVP
voting, Javier Bias finished second to Christian

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Yelich. That's a year that Christian
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OPS had thirty six bombs, drove
in one hundred and ten Baiaz that year

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with the Cubs twenty eighteen led the
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since that time. I mean the
next year he was an All Star,

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but he was an All Star primarily
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I mean, they had a good
year in two thousand and nine team.

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Don't get me wrong, he did
the gold Glove is a COVID year.

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Can't take it away from him.
But still two years later he signs

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a big deal with the Tigers.
You're well aware of it. It was

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a sixty year, one hundred and
forty million dollars to contract and he has

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been this team's single biggest disappointment.
I hear people left and right bitching about

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aj Hinch, bitching about Spencer Torkelsen, complaining about Casey Mize. Where's your

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angst and anger for Hobby or Biaz
Full disclosure. I like him. I

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do. He's a really good dude. He is not who you think he

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is on the field of play.
Really good dad, really good father,

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really good husband because his wife is
on a number of road trips and I

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see them working out in the gym
all the time, first thing in the

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morning. But production wise awful.
It's not like it's a small sample size.

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First year in Detroity had five hundred
and ninety played appearances, played one

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hundred and forty four games. Last
year, played one hundred and thirty six

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games. He patted two thirty eight, then to twenty two. His first

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two years in Detroit, his OBP
two thirty eight to twenty two, or

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I'm sorry, his OBP two seventy
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I remember when they got him.
Where he played with the Mets. In

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the Cubs, he slugged five hundred. He slugged fi point fifteen with the

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Mets. He comes to Detroit,
he slugs three ninety three and what could

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be the ballpark? Crap, it's
not the ballpark. Last year he slugged

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three twenty five. The strikeouts,
you knew you were getting that. Anybody

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who followed him, whether it be
in Chicago or the brief stay with the

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Mets forty seven games, knew what
you were getting. You were getting a

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high swing and miss guy, a
guy who chases a lot. He is

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exactly the opposite of what the current
administration wants. Detroit was in such a

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dire situation to try and get a
shortstop, even though they had a guy

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like Williadamas in their system. And
had him for a brief moment, traded

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him to Tampa and the David Price
deal. You got to give up something

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to get something fine. Who would
have thought Williadamas would be that good with

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Tampa and then again with Milwaukee,
because I remember Tampa traded him too.

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But I digress. You were in
such dire need of a shortstop, and

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that free agent class that included guys
like Corey Seeger and Marcus Simeon, who's

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really a second basement and that's where
he plays for Texas. Trevor's story,

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Carlos Correa, Javier Bias, those
were the names Seeger and Simeon. I

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think Simeon was the first one to
sign. Both signed in Texas. Correa

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signed surprisingly in Minnesota. That would
have been the right fit, although he

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gets hurt an awful lot. And
then you had Bias in story. I

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remember ranking them quote unquote ranking them
and suggesting that Bias the last guy I

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wanted because of the swing and miss. That's what I said, Beck.

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When there's a two thousand and twenty
one off season ideal situation, I wanted

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Simeon first. I would have been
wrong there. I wanted Correa second,

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and he has when healthy, been
really good. I wanted story third that

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has not worked out at all because
all he has been done, all he's

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done is been heart then Seeger than
bias, and Seeger's been the best.

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Just not a huge fan of the
person personality. The quote unquote leader really

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liked to Simeon's leadership and how he
brought a room together, although after his

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first year in Texas, people were
reporting about how disappointing it had been with

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him and seeing her in that room, and then they turned it around won

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world championship. This isn't to be
revision is history. What I'm wondering is

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what do you do with them?
See he picked up the option, he

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had a player option after last year, and you know, people were crossing

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their fingers, crossing their toes and
saying, please please opt out. That's

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the only wishful thinking. You knew
that wasn't going to happen. Reality,

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Come on, no one else was
going to pay him twenty five million dollars

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whatever he's owed. Making twenty five
million dollars this year, he'll make twenty

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five next, he'll make twenty four
to the following and twenty four in the

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last year of the contract. How
much are you willing to eat and don't

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give me this? Well, you
could use that money elsewhere. You would

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have thought they could use the thirty
two million that they were paying a Cabrera

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elsewhere. Instead, this team is
mired in the lower half of Major League

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Baseball's payroll at one hundred and six
million dollars, so there's no guarantee that

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they'd be using that money elsewhere.
Sorry for my skepticism, but I believe

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it to be true. This year
I gave you his numbers right. Batting

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average two thirty eight is first year
to twenty two last season one sixty four.

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This year, with no power,
he has five five base hits,

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a homer in four doubles. Thus
the slug at two twenty one by far

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and away the worst of his career
ops on base plus slugging by far the

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worst in his career at four twenty. It's horrid, man. You want

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to you're trying to figure out what
the biggest problem this team has. It's

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at shortstop, and it's been at
shortstop since. When you want to go

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back to Alan travel, don't give
me this, Jose Iglesias crap. Carlos

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Gian Okay, fair enough, that's
twenty sixteen, man, right, It's

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unbelievable. It's unbelievable that you cannot
draft and develop a play like that twenty

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eleven for Carlos Gian, not sixteen. That's how far back it goes.

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That's how that's how much of an
issue it has been for this organization.

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Meyer Hotline eighty six, eight three
eight forty eight forty three. You could

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text the program sports radio to twenty
one thousand. I don't know if you

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remember spring training at all. Ryan
Kraichtler had a really good spring. Now

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he's been hurt quite a bit.
I'm not saying he's the answer, but

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defensively he may not make the spectacular
play like Baiez does, but he's a

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very steady guy. And I'm not
suggesting you just eat twenty five mil this

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year, twenty five next, in
twenty four, the following two. But

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how much worse could it really be
if you had a guy at shortstop who

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was a better fielder or a more
consistent fielder, for sure, And Kreidler

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is and there's no way he's hitting
any worse than what Bias is hitting right

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now. That can't be the mindset
going in. You're looking for improvement,

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not status quo. Who are the
guys in your system. Jase Young is

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not a shortstop. Cole Keith is
not a shortstop. This goes back to

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the philosophy, and I've said this
for a long time. This goes back

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to the philosophy of drafting players and
making the best at their position. We

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are so damn and enamored with versatility
in today's sports. It's not just baseball.

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It's not just the Tigers either.
Give me the guy who's really flipping

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good at his position that I can
put out there day in and down.

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You don't think it's really helpful that
the Houston Astros can put Jeremy Panya out

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there every single day. You don't
think it's helpful that Texas writes Corey Seeger.

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I know that's a little extreme.
Okay, I get it, because

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he's one of the best in baseball. All I'm asking you is, do

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you not think it's helpful? Eases
the burden to a certain extent when you

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get an everyday player at a specific
position. I don't care if it's Trey

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Turner, Bobby Wood Junior. I
don't care if it's O'Neil, Cruz,

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Anthony Volpi, Gunner Henderson in CJ. Abrams, You pick a guy,

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Okay, pick any of them,
Bobishett. There are not that many great

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shortstops in baseball today. I would
say four or five years ago there were,

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but right now it's there's a lot
of guys who are not hitting for

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that high average. There's some home
runs out there, and what do you

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expect? Okay, I mean Gonnard
Henderson. I think he's hitting like two

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sixty five, he's got twelve bombs
and he's a young guy. Do you

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think Baltimore is pretty happy right now? They've got a twenty two year old

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at shortstop who's going to be there
for a long period of time. One

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of the key positions in the entire
sport is taken care of for them.

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This is not a situation of Milwaukee
with Williadamas, who is a player he's

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twenty eight. He's been around for
a long time and he's twenty eight,

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or a Chicago cub situation like Dansby
Swanson who's thirty. Not saying that it's

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too old, I'm just saying,
from a youth standpoint, a chance to

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build a round a guy. That's
what certain teams have, specifically Baltimore in

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this case, or Bobby Witt Junior. Love that guy. He's twenty three

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years old, fantastic player. If
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he is dead last. I used
to love Francisco Lindor when he was in

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Cleveland, thought he was it.
That's the guy you would want to have.

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Hits for power, good defensive player, hits for average. He's still

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just thirty years old. He's struggling
big time with the Mets. I'm sure

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there are plenty of people in New
York who are pissed off about his contract

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because perhaps he hasn't been everything they
expected. Hold on a second twenty homers,

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twenty six homers, thirty one homers
a year ago while batting two fifty

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four and driving in one hundred runs
or close to it, pretty damn good.

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I don't know if it warrants the
contract. I'm just giving you the

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numbers. Bias isn't even close to
anything like that, has not been close

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to anything remotely close to that.
What do you do? It's not as

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simple as saying get rid of him. I wish it were. He's going

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to have to become more of a
part time player until he figures it out.

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But this has been two straight off
seasons where Tigers have told us,

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well, we go down spend some
time with him. I think we've got

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to figure it out. It's not
working. Meyer Hotline eighty six six eight

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three eight forty eight forty three.
The problem is you don't have anyone to

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take the place. It's not like
Gie or Schell is going to play shortstop,

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and who knows if he can stay
healthy anyway. Matt Verlin can play

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third. He's not a shortstop.
You don't have the guy when Silperez used

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to be. You're going to sacrifice
an awful lot of defense if you try

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to shoehorn him in there. Exis
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