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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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start telling me it doesn't matter to
retire, get out because the matter that's

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right. It is six h two
here on this Friday, June the fourteenth,

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Dennis fitting an inn for Matt Shepherd
on Axis and Bros. It's great

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to be here on the Michigan Sports
Network. I'm pinch hitting, I think,

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but the six to seventh time that
I've been able to put this headset

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on and talk into the mic along
with the ben who's producing, and take

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you into the weekend. Most of
the times it has been on a Friday,

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and you know Fridays. Not to
get too repetitive of what I say,

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but I don't like everyone. Most
of everyone, it's my favorite day

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of the week. And so here
we go heading into a Father's Day weekend.

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That's gonna be one of the themes
today. I'm gonna get to some

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sweeps here in this first segment.
And if you are a football fan,

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I am looking ahead to the seven
o'clock hour and I am going to zero

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in on the NFC North, and
I'm thinking about the Lions, and I'm

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thinking about the Packers. And I
will ask you I found filling in a

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few times that not everyone out there
is a Detroit Lions fan. But it

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feels like if you're not a Detroit
Lions fan and you're listening, you're a

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Green Bay Packers fan or a Chicago
Bears fan, which works nicely if you

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want to talk about the NFC North. But the Lions are the champs,

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and we'll just see how nervous,
how scared you are about the Green Bay

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Packers for this upcoming season for the
Lions. Maybe you're just sitting out there

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with your chest out and you're thinking, no, I think that's actually where

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the majority of the right lying fans
or at. But we'll get to that

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coming up. I I'll get to
it. Give you my thoughts on how

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scared I am of the packers in
an hour from right now. But you

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know, heading into this Father's Day, I also wanted to ask the folks

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out there if you think back,
sometimes dads are funny. You know,

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they've they've got You can go on
the internet and are you they I know

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because I got a book myself over
the last few years of you know,

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Father's Day saying, you know Father's
Day, you know your dad will have

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these, you know, silly things
that he say. Well, we all

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do those, so we all get
into there and and and have our own

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sayings. But if you had any
special one that you think that the audience

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would like, I would like to
hear from you on that. This morning,

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I'll give you an example. We
know the US Open is going on.

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I know shep was out at the
golf course. I was just listening

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to a huge talk about eating lobsters, getting in line and sounded like he

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was out at the golf course worse
as well, out there in West Michigan.

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And whenever I would play golf and
I would get mad, my dad

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would say, Dennis, what I
tell you about getting mad? You are

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not good enough get mad, and
which would kind of make me mad.

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So I had to play with an
even keel. You know, you play

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with people, get upset. It's
a frustrating game. But he repeatedly.

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And now that I was thinking about, what was What did my own dad

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say over the years that would be
interesting or funny. Most of them had

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to do with golf, but that
was the one that actually and I still

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think about that one whenever I get
out there and hit a good shot that

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I'm sitting out there perfectly, and
then I just, you know, kick

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one really bad. I say,
you know, it's not gonna be mad.

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I'm not good enough. I am
not good enough to be bad.

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Now you know how good I would
have to be before I would get mad.

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You know, we never got to
that point. I don't play that

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often, so it still fits to
this day. I'm not good enough to

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get mad playing golf. It's my
father's day. Twenty twenty four, saying

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to you, if you're a golfer, if you've got one of those,

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you can get in on that.
I want to get to what happened last

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night in sports, and I watched
the majority of Game three of the Stanley

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Cup Finals up there in Edmonton and
Florida hangs on. They went at four

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to three over Edmonton. So the
Florida Panthers are one went away from their

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first Stanley Cup ever. Now they're
in position to sweep Edmonton as they're up

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three to go. And as you
probably know, the Celtics tonight can close

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out the Dallas Mavericks in Big d
and they can sweep and it happens.

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But it has not happened in the
both NHL and NBA playoffs where the finals

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has been swept since nineteen ninety five, so it has been a while where

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we had twenty four twenty nine years
it has been. And it was the

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Rockets on the NBA side taking down
the Magic and then it was the Devils

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and Marty Broduor taking down the Detroit
Red Wings, and it just for me

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made me think when they finally punched
through in won the Stanley Cup in ninety

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seven, it was a forty two
year old drought. If you're not old

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enough to remember, the Red Wings
were considered to be a gigantic jinx.

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They kind of like people look at
the there's a lot of teams, teams

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that don't win, you know.
For the it was the Cubs and the

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Red Sox, and in baseball for
the longest time until they ended it.

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But it was the Red Wings like
the leafs. Like now people looked at

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the Toronto maple leafs and you know
they do seem cursed. But for the

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Red Wings, it was like that
exercise the ghosts, and they did it

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forty two years. They were able
to do it in ninety seven when they

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got through, but in ninety five
when they made the finals, you know,

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you're thinking this is gonna be it. And it's funny the things that

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you remember in sports. But I
can remember on that opening night, getting

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ready to play the Red Wings and
the Devils and the ninety five Stanley Cup

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Finals. I had a car with
no air conditioning. On a day like

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today, it seemed like the maybe
there was a strike that pushed the season

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backs, and it seemed like it
was even further into June than right now,

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but I don't know, maybe not, but maybe the point is is

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that I was drying in my little
car with no AC over to my friend's

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house, and you know, I
had the radio blasting on some you know,

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you'd think music with no sports talk
like you know right now, and

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I was just getting pumped, you
know, for that game. And you

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know, that's like my entire memory
of that series, the drive over to

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my friend's house and for the next
I wasn't the next twenty five years,

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but certainly for the next ten years, getting together with my friends for the

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for the playoffs, and for sure
the Stanley Cup finals and you know the

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Red Wings then, you know,
winning in ninety seven, ninety eight,

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coming back in two thousand and two, doing it in two thousand and eight,

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and you know, sweeps, if
it's your team you're here, a

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Florida Panther team, Florida Panther or
a Boston Celtic fan, you know,

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you're you're fine, You're happy with
a sweep. You just want to get

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it done. If you are who
else would be If you're gambled, if

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you battle the Florida Panthers or the
Boston Celtics to win, you know you

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don't want to have a good series, but everyone else, and I think

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it's the majority of us. You
know, it's a letdown. What does

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everyone say if you're not betting,
or if you're not a fan of that

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team, you just want to see
a good series. Oh when people ask

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me, who do I want to
see? I want to see a game

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seven. I want to see drama. I want something to talk about on

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the radio. Well, we're not
getting that. We're just getting two teams

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that are ready to They've got the
brooms poised and they're ready to just put

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their opponent into the bin. We'll
get to what else happened yesterday in sports

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and get you ready for this weekend. On this Father'sday weekend, I'm Dennis

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Fifthian. I'm in for Matt Shepherd
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Dennis, fitting in for Matt Shephard
head into this Father's Day weekend.

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I was looking at the weather report
and I like it when they put emoji's

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out there, and for this weekend, it looks pretty good. They had

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the emoji with the dude with the
the sunglasses, you know, and even

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though it was going to be hot, pretty good. But then on Monday

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they had the frowning and then the
other, I don't know, exasperated emoji

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guy and it said muggy muggy starting
on Monday. Nobody likes a muggy day.

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Hot. You're okay, but nobody's
out there, you know, because

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you can say, well, I
like this, you know, I'm going

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to the beach, but nobody likes
muggy. So but We don't have to

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worry about that until Monday. All
right. We're looking back to what has

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happened in sports yesterday and getting you
ready for the weekend. I've got the

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question out there for you with Father's
Day, and we're looking for your favorite

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saying from your father. If you've
got a good one that you think the

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audience would like, you can jump
in on that. Of course, you

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know you're a sports fan. I
don't know you like football. You want

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to get into that right away.
I will be talking about the Lions and

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the Packers and the Bears, and
I'm gonna put the mix in there with

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the Vikings. Why not with the
NFC North. How scared you are as

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a Lions fan of the Green Bay
Packers. We'll get to that coming up

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at seven oh one. I was
looking back to last night with Florida uh

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beating Edmonton four to three and pulling
within one game away from winning their first

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Stanley Cup. And they have the
three oh series lead, and both in

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the NBA and NHL we have three
oh series lead, which made me,

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you know, think about sweep saying, you know, it's it's just watching

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Kyrie Irving from the MAVs saying,
yeah, it's just about pride. It's

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just about pride now, and you
know it's demoralizing even as a fan.

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I was thinking as I was watching
the game last night, the hockey game.

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Edmonton is such a we would say
hockey hotbed. I mean, they

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love their hockey. If you told
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in Edmonton liked hockey more than anyone
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you wouldn't get any pushback from me. You know, there's probably a lot

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of people in Canada and say,
now we're but Edmonton's right there, especially

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with the success that they've had over
the years and everything else. But and

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we used to always joke about,
oh, you'll get a great sheet of

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ice up there. You know,
it's cold and and and all of that,

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and I have to deal with uh, you know, you always are

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thinking about that it's gonna be good
that way. But watching the you know,

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the anthem and the crowd just like
let's go Oilers and all of that,

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I was thinking about. I was
holding you know, you wait the

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whole time and you're you know,
wanting to win the Stanley Cup. How

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excited would you be to go to
a game four on what's Saturday night.

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If you're an Edmonton Oilers fan,
when you're down three to zero and you

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have to be you know you just
love hockey, You're gonna go, hey,

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it's the Stanley Cup Finals. You
start playing like the things. You

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know, stranger things can happen.
But when you get to these stranger things

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can happen, not so much.
In in Stanley Cup Finals history, there

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have been twenty eight teams that have
been up three to oh, and twenty

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seven out of twenty eight times,
the a team that's been up three to

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oh has one. So you pull
out the emojii's saying oh. So you

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say there's a chance. There is
a chance. Toronto took down the Detroit

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Red Wings in nineteen forty two back
from a three deficit. So that's where

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we sit, Ben, Are you
ready to do you do you think that

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the Edmonton Oilers, as we go
back to the studio, would you predict

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that since that they would be the
first team to come back from a three

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oh series late since nineteen forty two? I don't think they have it.

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Yeah, I don't either. If
there's something fluky all one goal games,

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you know, a discrepancy like on
the power play or something something that you

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would pull in, like there's a
major injury to Bobrasky got hurt last night

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and you would say, oh,
I don't know, you can get a

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backup goal and whatever. But there's
none of that Florida. Every time you

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watch them, they look better and
as much as uh, you know,

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you watch the playoffs over the years, and in particular the Stanley Cup finals,

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you uh, you watch and so
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watch a game and this is what
it's a great thing about hockey. It's

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also one of the frustrating things about
hockey. You'll watch and there it seems

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like it comes down to a puck
bounce here, a post, there,

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a deflection, and it's like,
is that it I mean, but that's

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not what it is with Florida.
I mean, the Oilers scored first,

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uh yesterday, I'm sorry, the
pan scored a goal late in the first

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but then the Oilers tied it up. But then there was the floodgates and

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there was no like a bounce here, a bounce there. The Panthers they

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scored three goals in just over six
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a two to one one. There's
you know, a guy beating the oiler

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defenseman in the back of the night
and putting it out to Tarasinko who's sitting

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in there right all alone in the
slot, right in front of the goaltender

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Skinner who made the bad play and
back of the goal. The point is

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is that it was Florida looked like
they were in the regular season, playing

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one of the worst teams in the
NHL, not a Stanley Cup Finals.

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When they were on a roll,
right, there was no thing about,

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oh a bounce here, a bounce
there. You could have talked about that

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in the first period, and they
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but not after forty minutes. It
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You know, the sweeps. I
was just thinking about in Detroit sports history,

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and I mentioned the Red Wings,
you know, getting swept by the

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Devils in ninety five. If you
then think about the Red Wings history,

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they went out when they finally did
win it over the Flyers, what happened.

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They swept them. They swept the
Flyers in ninety seven, and then

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when they came back in one back
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In ninety eight they beat the Capitals. That was also a sweep.

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So the first two times in forty
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Hecks or the Stanley Cup drought,
the Red Wings were able to get sweeps

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in the Stanley Cup finals. So
then I was thinking about the Pistons.

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The Pistons, when you think about
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have been in the playoffs, they
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Calves, and I don't know who
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Milwaukee again swept out of the playoffs. But if you think about the Pistons

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when they finally won the NBA championship
in eighty eight eighty nine, they took

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on the Lakers, and what happened
in that series. The Pistons swept the

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Lakers. That's what happened. So
you know, the sweeps on one side,

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the sweeps on the other. I
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year before had taken on the Lakers
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that was the game that Isaiah had
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you know went down with the hook
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of vertic Cavilli. Everything that you
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for the Phantom File. But the
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the year before it was the ceth
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We've had open topics out there for
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a big time baseball stats guy had
to say this week. And his name

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is Bill James. And if you're
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you'll know the name Bill James.
Bill James put a tweet out the notion

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that no one except a small child
should get a foul ball is a very

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recent phenomenon. Ten years ago.
James says, an adult could catch a

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foul ball and nobody would say anything
about it. Now I saw that.

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Let me first ask Ben Zost,
who's producing Ben, have you ever caught

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a ball at a baseball game.
I have not. That would be exciting,

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but no, it would be exciting. It's something that we all think

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about or maybe dream about. I
never have either, but I have seen,

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buddy of it. It's happened around
me, and there is no doubt

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that you can be affected. Most
of the time when you see, especially

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when online, you'll see the like
adult like pushing a kid out of the

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way. Nobody. We're not talking
about anything like that. But what James

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is saying is that even if you
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then you're supposed to immediately find a
child in your vicinity and you're supposed to

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hand the ball to. Now.
I do agree that there feels like there

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is a little pressure to do that
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I don't think that this is some
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I don't know, twenty five years
ago, an adult could catch a

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ball and nobody would say anything about
it, I'd buy it. But you

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know, ten years ago, so
that would be my quibble with what he

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has to say about that. But
I've always you know, since I have

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never caught a foul ball or any
kind of baseball at a game. And

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you know, I've got kids at
home and they're older now, but and

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the you know, nephew and nieces. I could very easily have seen myself

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at a baseball game as a fan
if I caught my first foul ball ever

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and people are pressuring me, were
looking at me like, hey, you're

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going to give that ball up?
I was thinking, you know, no,

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I'm going to How about I'm going
to take this home and I'm going

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to give it to my kid or
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somebody in my family. I'm not
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I do know that that's out there, that you know, that feeling that

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you should be giving the ball away. You know, a long time ago,

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I've got one of the best seats
I ever got, were just given

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to me randomly on a Sunday,
somebody called and said, hey, you

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want to go to the Tigers game? Pre tickets would drive you there and

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everything else. And you know why
not. I was in college and I

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remember going to this game. We
went to the guy's house and not only

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did he have the tickets and was
he driving us to the game. He's

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like he had he had a family
outing over the weekend. He said,

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Hey, there's a cooler full of
drinks in there before we go. You

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guys help yourself. So not only
are we getting free tickets and free parking

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and everything else, Hey here's a
cooler full of drinks. The point of

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this story is is that the tickets
were great. And the guy who I'll

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never forget his name, his name
was Ace. I don't know that,

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you know, it had to be
a nickname, but didn't ask too much

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about that. The guy's names Ace. His tickets were great. Were sitting

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a couple of rows behind the Tigers
dugout, and this was Tiger Stadium,

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so it was back in the day. But the that is foul ball territory

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obviously, right, you know you're
sitting here, but I can recall sitting

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there and seeing the foul ball get
hit up in the air, you know

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whatever. It was fifty sixty feet
and it's coming down right at me,

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but it just goes like two or
three seats down and who catches it but

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Ace, who's right there. And
I was never happier for anybody to catch

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a foul ball that I barely knew
then Ace as give me the tickets all

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the things that I talked about.
So I'm like, hey, that's great,

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great job Ace, you know,
high five and while having our laughs

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and so there it is. That's
not a really big deal. But later

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in the game, almost the exact
same thing happens. You know, the

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foul ball's coming. Like I'm thinking, oh, this one's coming right for

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me, I'm getting this one.
But at the last second I got it's

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just you know, streams over and
who catches it. But Ace again,

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two foul balls in the same game. I was reminded about a month ago.

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It was it was a Mariners game. There was a guy down the

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left field line. Just he wasn't
in home run territory, just in foul

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territory, but way down the line
there. So it was not just some

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lazy foul ball behind the dugout like
I'm talking about. But this guy caught

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back to back foul ball almost home
runs. And they were like, what

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are the odds of this? And
somebody was like the very you know,

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winning the lottery type of odds.
There not so much for Ace. But

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you know, that was my story
with a foul ball. I was close

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but the guy that I wanted to
see catch it, he caught too.

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The kicker on that was that when
Ace caught his second foul ball, he

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was so happy that he bought a
round of hot dogs for everyone that was

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with him there. So it was
a hell of a day for Ace and

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it was also a very memorable day
for me. There was also one time

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where a home run ball. I
was in the overhang at Tiger Stadium with

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my nephew who's four years old.
Some I'm four or five years old,

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and there might have only been another
three or four people up there on the

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upper deck in this day game at
Tiger Stadium. But I'm reminded a lot

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about this particular event by two things
that happened. One, Bobby Bonilla was

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playing for the Baltimore Orioles, and
every year Bobby Bonia there's a Bobby Bonia

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Day. Benia signed a contract,
a I don't know, twenty five year

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contract where he gets a million dollars
every year, and everybody's like, well,

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that such a great contract. It's
fun. But I'm always reminded because

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Bobby Bonilla slams a home run into
the right field upper deck with me and

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my nephew sitting there, and if
I would have just stood up, I

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think it would have hit me right
in ahead. But it was hit directly

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at me, a home run ball
into the upper deck. And what happened.

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I did panic a little bit.
You know, when one's hit right

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at you and it's a home run, it's like and nobody else is around.

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I'm like, this is it.
And I remember my nephew, you

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know, he's four years old.
He's like, we're going to catch a

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baseball. I want a baseball.
I'm like, oh, yeah, we're

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gonna catch one. I'm lying to
him. But then here it is.

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It's coming right at me. I
panicked a little bit, and you know,

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I'm grabbing the kid and I went
down a mistake a row or two,

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and it ends up just clearing my
hand and you know, karm's over

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like fifteen feet. And the long
story short is this kid beats me to

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the ball by like a foot and
I don't get it. And so that

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part was disappointing. Disappointing that I
didn't just catch it. But in the

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years after, I will hear It's
not once every year, but it's it's,

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you know, once every couple of
years. I'll be just watching a

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baseball game and the analysts will say, you know, the the toughest ball

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to catch is one that's right at
you. And I always say, you

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know what he is exactly right.
I know what he's talking about, because

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that bonea ball was coming right at
me. That's not really the point of

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this. This was Bill James saying
that there's a notion that every small child

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should get a foul ball is a
recent phenomenon. I would also add into

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that if you go to a game
and you're sitting in the outfield and the

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opponents hit a home run, you
are pressured at Coomerica to throw that ball

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back. So and if I am
judging the ranges of hey, you catch

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a lazy foul ball like ace,
like right where the dugout was, this

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is pretty easy catch. I mean
he could have just had his hand out.

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Pretty easy catch a home run ball, you know, especially if you

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catch it and this thing is,
you know, coming at you and at

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a one hundred and five miles an
hour or whatever it is exit velocity,

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and you can reach up and snag
one, and it's for the opponent.

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And I've got one hundred people in
my section saying throw it back. I'm

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feeling like telling everybody to go jump
on a leg. But definitely is that

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pressure throw it back. I would
not throw it back. I would more

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likely leave the section because people would
be like, you know, I don't

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know about harassing, but definitely jeering
for me to enchanting for me to throw

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it back. But I would not. I don't think I would succumb to

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the pressure of throwing the ball back. But oftentimes people do succumb to the

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pressure to throw it back. Man, and everybody cheers woo, and then

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you know you're a hero for a
second. But I don't know if that's

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worth it or not when you're doing
that to throw it back. Old Bill

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James speaking of Bill James, for
the longest time, when somebody I always

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had my own idea about when somebody
is that, who's the greatest baseball player

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of all time? You know,
I do my work and think about all

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the different stats and everything else.
This is before guys like Bill James,

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and you know there was wins abovely
above replacement and all these things, and

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you know, I'd say, Willie
Mays, they're all the number crunching babe.

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Ruth in there, Hank Aaron,
and then these guys started ranking all

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of different players. Well well,
James and however he did it. I

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00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:53.360
always liked his list and and James
came up with and he also would put

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Egro league players in the in the
mix too. And then this year you

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probably know, I don't know last
month or the month before, they included

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the statistics from the Negro leagues and
now with Major League Baseball, and some

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people were up in arms that the
Ty Cobb Society did not like it because

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Cobb had the highest batting average,
and then he was supplanted by Josh Gibson.

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But you know, James had included
the players you know long before,

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you know, years ago, and
he did not have Willie Mays as the

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number one baseball player. He had
Babe Ruth. And I didn't think there

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was much, you know, I
wasn't gonna argue too much about that because

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they don't. Ruth is I think
an easy one to go and put up

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there. But his I think he
did the ten. This could have even

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been twenty years ago. They did
it with his statistics talking about Bill James,

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but he put Babe Ruth one.
Hannis Wagner two again, you know

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that I think about baseball cards,
that's like the most valuable one, the

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honest Wagner card. And Willie May's
at three. All right, there's my

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guy, and then four was Oscar
Charleston, and then five ty Cop and

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I was like, what who Oscar
Charleston. So even when it comes down

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to Negro League players, Josh Gibson
I knew who he was. Of course,

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Satcho Page, you know, you
know the names, and if you're

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the Tigers fan, the Detroit Stars, Turkey Sterns, you know you'd know

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that name. But I didn't know
the name of Oscar Charleston. So I

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can recall having to look and sing
just some great center fielder and he went

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on to be an equally successful manager. I don't know if James put that

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into the mix, but he had
Oscar Charleston above Ty Cob. I just

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have always thought out, if I
got a hundred bayall guys, people that

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were really into the history of the
game, stats, wore Baseball Reference of

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00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:15.519
anything, fan graft guy, all
one hundred of them, and put them

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all together, how many would have
put Oscar Charleston anywhere close to a top

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five player of all time in Major
League Baseball. Well, Bill James would

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and he did, and he for
those that are interested rounding out the top

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five man Old Ted Williams, the
great pitcher, Walter Johnson, Josh Gibson

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who I mentioned, and then Stan
Usual at ten. But I always thought

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that was intriguing that that was his. You know, everybody's got their their

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thing, like this is the guy
I'm standing for, Bill James. He

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puts Charleston. I always wonder.
I haven't researched this. I don't know

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where Bill James is from, and
I think Charleston played it the majority of

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his baseball and he played in a
lot of different places. But I think

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Indy and I wonder if there's some
kind of connection and if I would guess

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now, you'd like to think that
everybody is just if you're if you're trying

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to rank players, and certainly if
you're somebody like James who does it and

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has a numbers based you know,
that's how he's a formula based that he

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is trying to remove any bias and
he is just good. You know,

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he is trying to guide baseball fans, you know, for the greatest players

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of all time using a formula.
But I have a suspicion that not that

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I don't know if he tweaked his
formula with it, that that somehow Charleston

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has a connect to James, whether
somehow, I guess would be that he

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lived by him some way. That's
it. I we're all suspicious when anybody's

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doing any ranking. He's like,
Oh, no, you're just a Lions

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fan. Oh you're you live in
the state of Michigan. You're a big

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ten guy. You know, you
always hear skind of things like that,

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because you know, oftentimes it's correct. I mean, people there's I don't

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00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.079
know how many. And then you
know, even if you're a scientist,

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00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:36.039
they're always talking about trying to remove
bias and everything. How many real sports?

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I mean, I know you're supposed
to if you're a journalist and you

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have the you're not supposed to root
for anything. You're just looking and trying.

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But that's like a bygone era of
people that are doing that. Everybody's

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looking for some kind of angle,
like why is this person saying this and

497
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why is he doing that? Well, it's not bias. It's the Lions

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who are the favorite to win the
NFC. No. Right behind them,

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I mean they're not a huge favorite, but right behind them the Green Bay

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Packers. And we know what the
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my dad and I would hit a
bad shot, you know, I wouldn't

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throw my club. But even if
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this Father's Day weekend. My did
also, and this I think falls right

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into the same category. You know, golf is a funny game, and

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you watch the pros and you watch
them t off and they swing as hard

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as they can. And I think
about Scheffler, who's you know, it's

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got his legs look like they're twisted
up and it looks like he's gonna fall

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over, and you know the torque
that he hits with. And then you

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know, you go out yourself and
you try something like that and you hook

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at one hundred yards of the right. And my dad, he was so

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into letting the club do the work
so much so you know that, you

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know, I can hear him still
in my head to this day. When

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I take a swing, it's like, you know, you're swinging it like

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a baseball bat. You got to
just hit down on the ball and you

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gotta let the club do the work. And it's always like nice, and

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I'm always thinking nice and easy,
don't over just let the club do it.

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Just let the club do the work. And you know the thing about

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it is, he's right many times
as I've stood over a ball and I've

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actually hit a good shot and it's
just exploded off the club face and it's

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zipped right down the fairway, it's
headed right to the green and lands up

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there. You know what happens.
It's always does, never mean like you

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know, muscling it. It's always
just nice and nice and easy and it

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just boom. He was right about
that. Let the club do the work,

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all right. So when it comes
to the Lions last year, at

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00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:27.519
this time, people were very bullish
on the Lions. I think everyone was

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predicting the Lions to win the NFC
North. They were the heavy favorite.

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The Bears they didn't have anything going
for them. Well, I guess they

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had fields. The Packers had a
first time starter in Love. We didn't

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know, not even I was gonna
say completely. We just didn't have that

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00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.199
good of an idea on what he
was going to do. It looked like

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the biggest threat was going to be
the Vikings, and then Cousins are halfway

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through the season, got hurt,
and the Lions they ran away with the

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NFC North and won twelve games.
And now we sit here in this offseason.

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The Lions are favored again, but
the Packers are right there in their

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00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:17.440
rear view mirror and Jordan Love,
he and I think it was the game

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00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:22.880
that the I think it was on
Thanksgiving, now the week before of the

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00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.119
Packers won, but he threw three
touchdowns against the Lions, and then it

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was at his coming out party.
I'll leave that for Packer fans. Maybe

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00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:32.679
one will say, no, no, it was this game. It felt

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to me like it was the Lions
game on Thanksgiving. And then after that

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with the Packers, you know they
close strong. Love started playing well and

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and now you listen to the I
don't know the NFL experts and when they

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00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:53.880
look at Love, and I gotta
admit, when I look at it myself,

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he looks a lot like he plays
a lot looks a lot like Aaron

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00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:00.400
Rodgers. The way rose to ball, the way he moves around, the

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00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:08.199
way he operates the offense. A
young, healthy and engaged Aaron Rodgers engage,

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00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:15.159
like not showing up to the training
camps and OTA's and not doing whatever

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00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.679
Aaron Rodgers is doing right now,
which I'm not really even sure he's in

609
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:28.360
South America or something out in the
rainforest. Whatever, that's that's his business.

610
00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:31.719
But I'm talking about the Packers.
Do they scare you? How much

611
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:36.800
would they scare you if you're a
Lions fan. I want to hear from

612
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:42.280
a Lions fan or a Packers fan, you know. Previous to this year,

613
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:49.079
I always I didn't find it amazing, but it was interesting. Lion

614
00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:54.880
fans really didn't know how to act
in terms of having a good football team.

615
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.119
It. You know, we know
about the history, but what happened

616
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:07.239
in the off seasons for the Lions
previous to this year was that Lion fans

617
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:12.119
were really cocky in the off season
without having any reason to be cocky.

618
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.719
And in fact, you know,
like you know, they were the worst,

619
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:21.760
the worst franchise, and yet the
fans the off season and for many

620
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:23.920
of the fans were like, yeah, I mean, it all goes out

621
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:27.679
the window when you actually have to
play and then you lose, and then

622
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.119
it's you know, damn it.
And then you just wait to the next

623
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:34.960
off season, you wait to the
draft at your super Bowl. And it

624
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:38.559
was rinse and repeat for my entire
life. And I would watch and listen

625
00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:43.440
to the Lion fans and they all
were kind of the same. That was

626
00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:49.199
it. They didn't have anything to
brag about during the season. The off

627
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:52.519
season was that was their time.
As soon as they and it certainly wasn't

628
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:57.480
the Super Bowl. As soon as
the Super Bowl ended, that's when Lion

629
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:02.880
season for fans started. They could, you know, start talking about,

630
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.320
oh, we can move the money
to land a top free agent. They

631
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:13.079
just got you going, oh Trey
Flowers and just pump you up. And

632
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:16.840
then obviously the draft. Anytime you're
armed with one of the top picks,

633
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.719
that is your super Bowl. So
now, you know, it's interesting.

634
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:24.960
I don't even know how Lion fans
you know, they were cocky before.

635
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:32.480
Now I think just confident, confident
in the team, and just looking forward

636
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:40.119
to the upcoming season. But the
Packers are there, and we know that

637
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:49.760
the Vikings and Bears have their rookie
quarterbacks and it's going to be the Packers

638
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.800
that the Lions are going to have
to beat as their biggest contender. If

639
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:59.639
they're going to win the NFC North
again. I think everybody believes that.

640
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:02.840
How much are you scared though,
of the Packers? I don't know if

641
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:07.320
that's a good word for you.
I am I'm a little bit scared of

642
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:15.920
the Packers because of what they have
been able to do over the years with

643
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:22.840
the quarterback position, with Farvaran Rogers
and now Love. It's not hard to

644
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:25.239
look at the Packers and say,
this is an organization that just you know,

645
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.360
this is one of the premiere organizations. And then they're sitting here.

646
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:36.440
The Lions had their year. They're
in the rear view mirror for me,

647
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:42.360
so that is that is scary.
That is a little bit scary. But

648
00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:45.199
what about for you. I want
to hear from you on that with the

649
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:52.320
Lions, We've talked about the possibility
of sweeps in the NHL and the NBA.

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Fifthian with you here. It's great to

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be able to talk at you this
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679
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talking about the Alliance right now and
asking you how much the Green Bay Packers

680
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scare you. You get the phone
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683
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at XB mornings. How much do
the Green Bay Packers scare you? Also

684
00:57:55.920 --> 00:58:04.320
looking for the dad sayings on this
Father's Day weekend, we got a couple

685
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:07.360
of those texts. Oh, let's
hear them, man, let's hear a

686
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:10.880
couple. Yeah. One is from
from Pete Ford Rockford. It says patients,

687
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.519
he's a virtue. There you go. That's a that's a good dad

688
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.960
saying. And then this one's from
Freddy it says says my father would always

689
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.639
say, if you're healthy and your
bills are paid, you're the richest person

690
00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:30.719
in the world. World. Now, I love it. I love hearing

691
00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:37.079
ones like that. That's better than
go get me the belt or go get

692
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:45.039
me the uh something about mowing the
loan or you know those kind of ones.

693
00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:54.440
Now. Mark on Twitter said that
Jordan Love is overrated, and he

694
00:58:54.559 --> 00:59:00.280
says that he took teams by surprise
last year. There was really no game

695
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:07.239
film of him to be studied by
opposing defenses. He will not sneak up

696
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:15.880
on anyone this year. Now,
that's a that's a decent opinion. At

697
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:19.480
first, Mark just said he's overrated, and I felt like, you know,

698
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.360
that's what a Lions fan would say, and you know that he's overrated.

699
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:28.920
And there is a point you have
the game film. Normally, when

700
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:34.000
I'm thinking about you have the game
film, I think about a scheme overall

701
00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:37.119
on one side of the ball,
and then you know you're you're gonna make

702
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:42.519
those adjustments, and you know the
other teams, teams that have success,

703
00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:45.159
other teams are studying. You're studying
every team, but then you're you're studying

704
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:50.039
the team, certainly in your division, on anything that you can do.

705
00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:55.519
And yet part of that what Love
does well, you know, the counter

706
00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:02.079
is is that he was in there
for the entire season and then he improved

707
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:07.719
as he went and he played well
in the postseason. But there's no doubt

708
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:19.440
that being able to get the entire
offseason and then trying to find something you're

709
01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:22.559
not gonna just do the same things
with him. You know, you're always

710
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:29.000
making those adjustments. And the part
about him not sneaking up on anyone,

711
01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:30.320
Now, could you say the same
thing about the Lions. You know,

712
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:35.679
you could say that about anyone.
But that's why if you're a Lions fan,

713
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:39.599
you feel good about where you're at
right now heading into this season.

714
01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:46.280
You know that it wasn't an aberration. You don't fall into twelve wins,

715
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:52.679
you don't get lucky to win two
playoff games. You know there could be

716
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:55.079
a call, and when you go
back and look at things and everything else,

717
01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:04.360
you know you end up being where
you're at. But if you lost

718
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:09.239
a substantial amount of your team and
you looked at it and or there was

719
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:15.000
let's say like the you know,
the Lions. You know the offense was

720
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:19.840
was ranked really highly last year.
If it wasn't and then it just you

721
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:22.760
know, perked up for two games, you could say, wow, you

722
01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:27.719
know they only did it for two
games, But you have the entire season

723
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:34.119
to look at with the offense being
the a top three offense, with you

724
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:37.559
know, the passing game ranked number
two, and then you have those pieces

725
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.760
coming back. You know. The
thing to me, if you are if

726
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:45.360
I am just and I do just
like you do, you know, I

727
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:46.800
look and say, well, well
it was a fluke and what wasn't and

728
01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:52.719
and all of that. The thing
that is surprising to me about the Lions

729
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:58.320
with their success last year, is
that I've been asked, you know what

730
01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:00.760
was the key? People like to
say what was the superpower for the Lions?

731
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:09.320
Well, their offense was the engine. And they've got an enormous amount

732
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:16.679
of talent when you look at what
they have on offense and what they're bringing

733
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:24.440
to the table. But the thing
that I would say that is the key

734
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:30.920
to all of it was their offensive
line play led by Pinney Sewell, of

735
01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:40.639
course. But the thing that is
strange is that the offensive line they weren't

736
01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:45.119
all together healthy last year. That
wasn't a unit. If that was a

737
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:51.360
unit that was together for almost the
entire season, and you'd say they did

738
01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:54.199
not miss any game injuries and they
did not have any big injuries, and

739
01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:58.480
you know that was the key.
Well, that would be the key,

740
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:02.840
and the offensive line was the key, but they weren't together for the majority

741
01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:07.719
of the season. In fact,
they had nine different combinations. You know,

742
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.400
they went Decker, Jonah Jackson,
rag Now, Glasgow and Sewell from

743
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.719
left to right, but they had
nine different combos with guys being out at

744
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:21.719
different times. Rag Now with the
toe, you know, Decker being out

745
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.960
a few times, and they do
replace Jackson, who was good in a

746
01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:30.079
former third round pick with Kevin Ziegler. But Ziegler, you know, when

747
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:34.760
you look at him, is thirty
four old for an offensive lineman. You

748
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.480
could say that. You could also
say, well, the Ravens, you

749
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.000
know, moved on and they're one
of the better organizations. But he was

750
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:45.679
just a name to his first Pro
Bowl. That's not nothing. Last year,

751
01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:51.920
and he did have the second best
passing blocking grade for guards and all

752
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:58.159
the NFL, the second besty this, you know, you could make a

753
01:03:58.199 --> 01:04:02.519
case he's an upgrade in there.
So to me, that's the strange part

754
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:10.000
for the Lions. Not a floky
part, but that the number one thing

755
01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:15.480
that you would say about them is
that they have this excellent offensive line and

756
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:20.440
you're going to need that for Jared
Goff and yet they had nine different combinations

757
01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:28.519
over there, so they were able
to overcome that and still perform. I

758
01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:30.960
just like you know, you go
through you want to say there's questions and

759
01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:35.000
they'll have to prove it, certainly
in the passing game and being able to

760
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:39.280
get to the quarterback, no doubt. And they drafted that way. At

761
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:42.440
free agency, they went that way. I mean, you could see what

762
01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:45.039
they have tried to do there.
But man on offense, it's a lot

763
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:54.880
of fun. Goff has a tremendous
tandem of running backs that he's got a

764
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:59.039
thunder and lightning. You know,
Gibbs, the sky's the limit, Jamir

765
01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:06.239
Gibbs. After watching him as a
rookie last year, Montgomery is uh is

766
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:12.400
everything that you thought. Remember,
you know you wanted the Lions. Jamal

767
01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:16.599
Williams scored for the eighteen touchdowns and
you thought, well, keep him going.

768
01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:20.159
He loved Detroit so much, but
they upgraded. You know, Montgomery,

769
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:24.840
he catched the ball. He runs
as hard, physical runner in between

770
01:05:24.840 --> 01:05:32.840
the tackles a manra Yeah, they
lose, they lose something in depth and

771
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:40.239
wide receiver. But I mean how
much Reynolds are they gonna Is that something?

772
01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:43.599
I don't think so that they're gonna
mess because I think Jamison Williams,

773
01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:49.440
he's You're expecting quite a bit more
from him this year. And you know,

774
01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:54.039
Laporta was a surprise man. Laporta
even if he's got to even to

775
01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:58.440
be surprised at the Lions front office. They liked him, they picked him,

776
01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:01.480
they drafted him high. I thought
maybe he could play early. Did

777
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:04.360
they really think, hey, you
need to be the best tight in the

778
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:10.400
NFL. I mean, that's the
idea, that's the hope. But that's

779
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:15.920
got to even surprise them as you're
sitting there right now. But the Packers,

780
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:18.519
I think a lot of it has
to do with the uh, the

781
01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:25.119
history, the current organization that the
head coach, and then yeah, the

782
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.199
quarterback. I mean all of that. If you are able to as a

783
01:06:28.239 --> 01:06:30.239
Lion fan, just be like,
no, there's there's nothing scary at all

784
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:35.920
about the Packers. It's more of
a confidence in the Lions and what they

785
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:41.079
have. I get that. I
think that's I think that's the way to

786
01:06:41.119 --> 01:06:47.280
go. And it's not up to
a fan to say, well this,

787
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:50.559
you know, the Packers have been
one of the model organizations, and just

788
01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:56.199
look at how they have been able
to, you know, find a quarterback

789
01:06:56.320 --> 01:07:00.239
and now look at how they were
able to put it together last year.

790
01:07:01.480 --> 01:07:05.199
I think if you tried to,
it's a little bit surprising. Just like

791
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:10.000
I was talking about with the Lions
and the different offensive line combinations that they

792
01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:15.960
had. When I look at the
Packers and their wide receivers, it's not

793
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:18.400
like they look you looked out there. Aaron Jones was out for a lot

794
01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:21.639
of last year. He was great
against the Cowboys in the playoffs, and

795
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:27.199
we know that they have moved on
and they have replaced him with Josh Jacobs,

796
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:31.639
the former Raider. But Christian Watson, how many games did he play?

797
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:38.800
A couple he came back finally,
and then he had a really good

798
01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:43.159
game and then he got hurt again. I think for the majority of the

799
01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:45.519
season, I don't have the numbers
in front of me. Ninety percent of

800
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:54.039
the season he wasn't even if he
was available, wasn't effective and was bothered

801
01:07:54.079 --> 01:08:01.119
by I believe a calf am.
I looking at Romeo or Jaden Reid from

802
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:04.559
Michigan State and thinking, oh man, these guys, you got to really

803
01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:12.239
account for them. I mean,
they they seem like real, legit number

804
01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:15.840
two wide receivers, just like Luke
Musgrave. He was a rookie tight end

805
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:20.319
as well. He showed some promise, but then he was banged up a

806
01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:28.720
lot. So for the it's a
little bit of a surprise that when you

807
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:32.560
look at that that early didn't have
a number one wide receiver. With Watson

808
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:36.920
being her they're tight end that they
were counting on pass catching tight end.

809
01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.520
He was banged up the majority of
the time, so it was Jones,

810
01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.359
and yet they were still able to, you know, get within striking distance

811
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:50.640
and almost play the Lions in the
NFC Championship game the way they got hot

812
01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:57.000
and the way they were playing.
So yeah, they're really counting on Christian

813
01:08:57.039 --> 01:09:00.840
Watson to come back. You know, I pound hit his name so much.

814
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:02.840
He was on my fantasy team,
so I know, we get a

815
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:11.119
week out I had him, and
then what did did he get hurt?

816
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:15.800
Like he wasn't. It didn't seem
like he was hurt for the entire preseason,

817
01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:19.119
but then it was like the practice
week. Next thing, you know,

818
01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:24.039
they're like, oh, he's out
with a calf. And then he

819
01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:27.880
was out for six the first six
weeks, and then he he came back

820
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.920
and they were ramping him up for
a game or two and then he just

821
01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:33.319
exploded in a game. But then
he got hurt the next game, and

822
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:35.640
I don't know did he even come
back. Like I said, ninety percent

823
01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:40.279
of the season, he seemed like
he was out or you couldn't trust him,

824
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:49.159
or he wasn't in there. So
the the scary part for the Packers.

825
01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:57.399
Where are you at with that?
So the rest of the North in

826
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:03.880
terms of being scared, I look
at I'm not going to be scared of

827
01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:13.399
the Vikings or the Bears yet.
I do think that the Bears have you

828
01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:18.640
know, they had a seven win
season last year. Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams,

829
01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:21.239
I'm not expecting him to just be
like Stroud. I do think over

830
01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:27.439
McCarthy probably. I mean, there's
there's both of those teams. There's lots

831
01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:30.640
to like with their rookie qbs and
what they've been able to put around them.

832
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.680
But I still think rookie qbs,
you know you're feeling pretty good.

833
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:40.520
If you're sitting up at the top, you know one of those will be

834
01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:45.600
okay. I would I would guess
the Bears more with Williams being the number

835
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:49.079
one overall pick and then the talent
that they do have that they're sitting there

836
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:58.520
with, but still feeling pretty good
about the Lions and what they will be

837
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:03.039
able to do. And it's bearing
out when you look at anybody that talks

838
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.760
about them, they start talking about
the NFC North, right, I'm sorry

839
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:11.600
that you start about the NFC overall, And yeah, the first name that's

840
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.600
coming out of your mouth is the
forty nine ers. They're the favorite they've

841
01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:20.199
got. You know what, if
we're going to talk about turmoil with Brandon

842
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:24.600
a yuk, maybe I had I
don't know, that's turmoil. Got a

843
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:30.640
contract situation right there, but that's
about it. But after that, it's

844
01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:38.000
the Lions and we've never been able
to say that, and now we can.

845
01:11:38.119 --> 01:11:43.880
So this is a unique off season
and how Lion fans are handling it,

846
01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:47.039
I don't know. I would imagine
that they've just kicked it up from

847
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:58.920
one of of off seasons of being
able to brag and be cocky when there

848
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.399
was nothing to brag about or be
cocky about, to now that you can

849
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:11.319
that they've been able to take it
to that level, it's different. You

850
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:14.600
really have to ask yourself because all
of the years you say, when people

851
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.159
say, well, how do you
handle yourself? Lion fans don't know.

852
01:12:17.319 --> 01:12:20.840
I mean they've never had they've never
been in a situation like this, so

853
01:12:21.479 --> 01:12:26.800
you know, they handle it like
sitting back saying I don't know. It

854
01:12:26.880 --> 01:12:32.239
feels pretty good. You can actually
say things and point to things that you

855
01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:38.199
know that just happened. It's not
about this is what you expect or you

856
01:12:38.199 --> 01:12:43.319
know, false hope and the different
things that you might say. So that

857
01:12:43.479 --> 01:12:48.479
part it's feeling pretty good. Now. Coming up in the eight o'clock hour,

858
01:12:51.319 --> 01:13:00.560
whatever sport is your favorite, I
am going to have you be a

859
01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:08.720
sports zar. You're the sports are
you make a change in your favorite sport.

860
01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:13.199
It could be a big change,
it could be a small change.

861
01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:16.239
It could be something that you really
think can and will happen. It could

862
01:13:16.239 --> 01:13:23.039
be a long shot, but that's
the idea how to tweak sports. You're

863
01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:27.159
the commissioner in this case, you're
the sports zar, and you make that

864
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:31.920
change. And for years you just
do something like this, and you would

865
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.920
say things, and you take of
calls on sports shows and you would hear

866
01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:44.880
some really wild suggestions. The way
things have changed in the last five years,

867
01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:49.159
it doesn't feel like that there's many
like there's crazy things to say.

868
01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:56.239
Actually, when it came to college
football and say let's have of sixteen team

869
01:13:56.399 --> 01:13:59.920
playoff, let's get rid of and
you'd say, you know, let's kind

870
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:03.439
to try to be realistic. Let's
play game on you know, play an

871
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:09.880
NFL game on a Tuesday and on
a Friday, and you know, if

872
01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:15.760
there was one thing, and maybe
that was the only thing about the pandemic

873
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:23.119
is that it took sports and they
had to break the molds and so many

874
01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:26.560
different things. Play a game here, play it out there, play it

875
01:14:26.600 --> 01:14:30.600
on a different day, try this
rule, adjust that. And you've looked

876
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:34.880
at it and it's changed. It's
changed the landscape where you say, why

877
01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:44.680
not be able to do something like
this? It's funny, funny but interesting

878
01:14:44.760 --> 01:14:47.439
how it took, you know,
something like the pandemic. But then the

879
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:53.920
other times that you had some changes
in sports were like the strikes or the

880
01:14:53.960 --> 01:14:57.520
lockouts, and you're like, hey, those well, really well, I

881
01:14:57.600 --> 01:15:00.720
really like how they did that.
They're just sitting back with status quo and

882
01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:04.479
saying, no, that's unrealistic.
We're not doing anything like that. No

883
01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:09.640
sports are. We'll get to that. We'll continue to read some of your

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me. You can't handle the true now

927
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told our players you need a bit
more like a dog. We don't need

928
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a bunch of cats in here looking
in the mirror. I look good.

929
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I got my extra bands on,
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doll. We don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We

931
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need more dolls play out at the
time. Are you not that detay we

932
01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:29.720
weren't good. There's no sense of
asking me things about the game. I'm

933
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:31.119
telling you we laid an egg.
So I'm not going to break it down

934
01:19:31.199 --> 01:19:36.159
for you. He sucks. He
sucked. He laid an egg. That's

935
01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:39.039
all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going to

936
01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.159
break it down for you. Nothing
went well for us. It's on us.

937
01:19:42.359 --> 01:19:47.760
We have to figure it out and
we will needs your dad, Yes

938
01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:51.840
it is. We get into the
eight o'clock hour here on the Michigan Sports

939
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that work down. It's fitting an
end for Matt Shephard on the Axes and

940
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bros. Well, we've talked about
the the Lions and how much you are

941
01:20:03.720 --> 01:20:06.960
scared of the Packers. You can
get in on that. We're looking for

942
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those father day sayings and now to
talk about putting your sports Zar hat on

943
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and make a change in sports,
whether it's big or small, your favorite

944
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sport. Make a change as a
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who leads off the eight o'clock hour
here on x'es and Bros. Good

952
01:21:09.159 --> 01:21:11.800
morning, Dennis, that'd be Fathers
did to you great way, Hey,

953
01:21:11.960 --> 01:21:16.880
same to you, Freddy. Appreciate
it, appreciate it. So I'm gonna

954
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:21.119
be all over the board because I
got our it's our idea and the Lions

955
01:21:21.199 --> 01:21:26.000
and uh, I gotta kick out
of you. Got a tweet earlier today

956
01:21:26.600 --> 01:21:30.720
somebody said that Jordan Love is overrated. Yeah, you know, Lions fans

957
01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:34.199
crackt me. Lions fans cracked me
up. You know everybody else is overrated.

958
01:21:34.279 --> 01:21:38.640
But you know, God forbid you
say something about their player. Oh

959
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:44.479
you don't know what you're talking about. That that Jordan Love is not overrated.

960
01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:46.520
Man, That team is, that
team is peaking, and that that

961
01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:51.199
division can be had by Green Band
Detroit the next two or three years between

962
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:57.319
those two teams next two to four
years easily. So that's just that's just

963
01:21:57.439 --> 01:22:01.199
nonsense. But you know, before
I to the ZAR thing something I've been

964
01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:06.760
hearing the last two weeks is driving
me up the wall. The Lions need

965
01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:14.399
to get a number three wide receiver. They they can cemester the way to

966
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:19.800
the Super Bowl. See what bothers
me about that situation is is Jared Goff

967
01:22:19.920 --> 01:22:24.840
is who he is. Okay,
you got Saint Brown and Laporte. These

968
01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:29.640
guys are not stretched the field.
They're yeat guys, right. They they'll

969
01:22:29.640 --> 01:22:31.159
think they'll get the dump boss,
and you know they'll get they'll get the

970
01:22:31.319 --> 01:22:36.720
yards after the carry. And they're
both incredible. This team is built by

971
01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:41.319
the offensive line in the running game. Why don't fans ever consider getting a

972
01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:43.880
third running back. I'm gonna throw
all the name and I know he sided

973
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:45.840
you can't get them. But what
would be so wrong if this team got

974
01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:49.880
Dereck Henry as your third running back? I mean, this team has got

975
01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:55.039
a better chance of running about thirty
times in winning games keeping that defense off

976
01:22:55.079 --> 01:22:59.000
the field. Then they are getting
a third wide receiver and stretching it down

977
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:00.840
the field. I just you know, Freddy the only thing I could say

978
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:05.039
about the Lions. I mean,
I think fans and maybe the media will

979
01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:12.279
get tired of talking about them getting
pressure on the quarterback or their their pass

980
01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.399
defense, and the only thing that
you can say about the offense everything else,

981
01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:20.680
I mean, the every other position
performed. You know, everybody's coming

982
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:24.720
back. The only guy that's not
coming back is a third wide receiver in

983
01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:28.560
Reynolds. And yeah, I mean
you want to say that he could he's

984
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:34.600
a loss and that Donovan, People's
Jones or Khalif Raymond are gonna they'll have

985
01:23:34.680 --> 01:23:41.319
a tough time filling in for you
know, his production. I don't know.

986
01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:44.520
I mean that that's a that's a
stretch, but I think that just

987
01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:47.039
is. I think people get bored
on one side of the ball and there's

988
01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:50.520
only one thing to do. I
mean, I don't think that you know,

989
01:23:50.680 --> 01:23:54.239
usually you go to the quarterback and
he say, oh well, but

990
01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:58.600
I think people feel pretty good about
where golf is at if he gets the

991
01:23:58.680 --> 01:24:01.920
protection the players that he has around
him. I mean, this this thing,

992
01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:08.399
this thing is coming down to can
you can you improve on the defensive

993
01:24:08.479 --> 01:24:11.039
side of the ball, and can
you take the next step and the next

994
01:24:11.079 --> 01:24:13.920
step is getting to the super Bowl. So everything's got to come out and

995
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:17.159
you know they got to be on
point with everything. Well, running the

996
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:19.920
ball is going to help that defense, right, no recording the clock.

997
01:24:20.039 --> 01:24:23.920
And yeah, and I and I
and I and I've said this kind of

998
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:27.680
before and and I'm not wishing for
it, but you got to keep an

999
01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:30.880
eye on Engineer gibbs Man that fumble. You know, I've seen guys in

1000
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:33.800
the NFL for years get a fumble
and it sticks with them mentally for for

1001
01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:38.720
a long while. And that was
a big fumble that no one ever talks

1002
01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:42.000
about, uh in that game and
uh, I mean, I know some

1003
01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:44.720
people talk about it, but that
was a big fumble. And you just

1004
01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:46.960
hope it doesn't stick with that kid
mentally because you just never know, especially

1005
01:24:47.359 --> 01:24:49.880
if he cops one up early and
I don't. And I'm not wishing for

1006
01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:53.680
that. Well, that's something you've
got to look out for because I've seen

1007
01:24:53.720 --> 01:24:57.319
it with I mean, Wendell Tyler. You go back and on and on

1008
01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:02.199
on. But bizarre thing. I
got two, but one would be for

1009
01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:06.680
me, every sport get rid of
vincent replay the human element. I missed

1010
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:13.199
the human element of sports so much
it's ruined the game. When people say,

1011
01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:15.720
well they get calls, they correct
calls, Well, you know what,

1012
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:19.159
they miss calls as well. To
just keep the human element in life

1013
01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:24.479
in sports, and that's what I
missed. But for baseball. What I

1014
01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:28.680
would do if I was the commissioner
of baseball Now, I don't have a

1015
01:25:28.760 --> 01:25:31.039
calculator in front of me, and
I can't do the math right now,

1016
01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:34.399
but I wouldn't Obviously, I would
not shorten one sixty two. You got

1017
01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:38.479
to keep one hundred and sixty two
games. But I would play a double

1018
01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:42.279
header every Saturday. Okay, first
of all, the families can get out,

1019
01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:45.560
and you shorten us. You shorten
the season that way. So maybe

1020
01:25:45.600 --> 01:25:49.079
you can go through May first through
September first. Again, I don't have

1021
01:25:49.159 --> 01:25:53.359
a calculator in front of me,
but May first through September first. If

1022
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:56.600
you play a double header every Saturday, and what you do is you allow

1023
01:25:56.760 --> 01:26:00.880
six to eight players come up in
the minor leagues every week to kind of

1024
01:26:00.319 --> 01:26:05.520
kind of help them with it double
that weekend and you get more fun I

1025
01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:09.680
think, you get more fans in
the ballpark. You shorten the season,

1026
01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:13.720
and then the season is done.
By time October first comes and really the

1027
01:26:13.880 --> 01:26:17.399
NFL is really starting to kick in
the high year, And that would be

1028
01:26:18.039 --> 01:26:23.600
that That's what I would do if
I was a commissioner and I and I

1029
01:26:23.720 --> 01:26:29.399
think maybe once a month, I
would take your Triple A team and you

1030
01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:32.399
know, maybe let them play a
game before or after MLB game, let

1031
01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:35.239
the fans watch them play. You
don't get to see these kids playoffsen.

1032
01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:38.920
I think it'd be I think it's
all about the fan. I think this

1033
01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:42.239
would all would be about all about
helping the fan. That's what I would

1034
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:45.079
do if I was a commissioner of
baseball. Let me just follow up on

1035
01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:47.560
that last one. I'd never have
entertained that thought. So you were talking

1036
01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:53.359
about like the the mud Hens on
a Friday night instead of playing down in

1037
01:26:53.640 --> 01:26:58.079
Toledo, they would play after the
Tigers. Well, it wouldn't be a

1038
01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.279
night game, so you'd have to
do it during a day games. So

1039
01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:03.880
you're talking about it a Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, allowing the Triple A

1040
01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:09.960
team then to play afterwards at Cole
America or or or before you know,

1041
01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:14.439
or before you know, maybe maybe
eleven am game, twelve am game or

1042
01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:17.520
twelve noon game, just something one
of any any you know, maybe you

1043
01:27:17.600 --> 01:27:21.600
know one one minor league game a
year from each you know, double A,

1044
01:27:21.760 --> 01:27:27.079
Triple A. It just it just
gives these It gives these fans something

1045
01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:30.640
to look at, because in reality, a lot of them aren't going down

1046
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:34.279
to these Aree and Triple A or
Toledo. And I think it, I

1047
01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:38.399
think it would be kind of cool
for the fans. I think I think

1048
01:27:38.439 --> 01:27:42.199
that's the problem with sports is everything's
taken away from the fan. Now.

1049
01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:45.600
You know, I said your text
earlier about Ace. You know, Ace

1050
01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:47.920
did all those things for you,
right, because beers were four bucks or

1051
01:27:48.079 --> 01:27:51.960
three bucks, those tickets were seven
dollars, parking was four dollars. Everything

1052
01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:57.800
squeezed out as a fan now and
every everything, and and I just think

1053
01:27:57.880 --> 01:28:01.560
that we need to start looking come
back at the fan. And I know

1054
01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:04.600
my phone's gonna come a cutout right
now, cover in the band's all.

1055
01:28:04.680 --> 01:28:11.159
But that's that's that's what I would
do, is is short and baseball and

1056
01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:14.560
bring and bring sports back to the
fans. Well, Freddie, I'm gonna

1057
01:28:14.600 --> 01:28:16.680
jump on all of those topics.
I loved it, and that's the way

1058
01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:19.960
it's done. If you're out there
listening here. The sports are change something

1059
01:28:20.079 --> 01:28:24.319
up. It's got the wheels turning. We'll address some of those points coming

1060
01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:28.279
up here on Axson Bros. Thanks
for the call, Freddy, It's Den.

1061
01:28:28.319 --> 01:28:31.920
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1062
01:28:32.079 --> 01:28:38.760
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1068
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To him? It's all about contact
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1069
01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:08.439
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1070
01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:10.960
the major leagues by hitting with power, not for average, but to have

1071
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1072
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1073
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1074
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1075
01:29:24.119 --> 01:29:26.560
a shot, when to settle for
the single. He says when the Tigers

1076
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:29.680
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1090
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I'm done as fifty and in for
Matt Shephard. We're taking your calls

1091
01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:56.359
here. We're asking you to change
some rules in your favorite sport. You're

1092
01:30:56.399 --> 01:31:01.199
the sports czar, go ahead and
make a change. Also looking for those

1093
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Father's Day sayings? What did your
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1094
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Freddy last segment had a few interesting
comments on some changes that he would make.

1097
01:31:27.399 --> 01:31:30.720
One he talked about bringing the Triple
A team or the minor league team

1098
01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:36.720
to Comerica. He was talking about
before a game or I was saying after

1099
01:31:36.840 --> 01:31:41.119
a game, like on the weekend
and just thinking about that. You know,

1100
01:31:41.119 --> 01:31:44.920
if a game goes to extra innings, there could be some logistical situations

1101
01:31:44.920 --> 01:31:50.039
there, but there are plenty of
off days that the Tigers have during the

1102
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:59.319
calendar, And how about on one
of those Mondays or Thursdays where the Tigers

1103
01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:03.680
are not playing, bring the minor
league team up and let them play at

1104
01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:10.760
co America. That would give a
lot of people an opportunity that otherwise would

1105
01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:16.039
not see their minor league team and
make the trip to actually see them.

1106
01:32:16.079 --> 01:32:23.239
Now, the interesting part, would
you ever take your major league team and

1107
01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:29.720
send them down to play at a
minor league park for you know, once

1108
01:32:29.840 --> 01:32:33.680
or twice or three times a year
for instance, you know the Tigers,

1109
01:32:33.720 --> 01:32:36.920
would you know, play a game
down at Toledo, they would go to

1110
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:42.359
Erie for a game? Could they
go to West Michigan? Now immediately say,

1111
01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:45.640
well, the ballpark only holds you
know, ten thousand. I mean,

1112
01:32:45.680 --> 01:32:50.039
that would pack it out. Maybe
you would want to do that early

1113
01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:54.640
in the year with a weather where
Comerica is not getting that many people.

1114
01:32:54.680 --> 01:32:58.680
Anyways, I know there's a lot
of financial things that you'd come back and

1115
01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:00.079
say, oh, that's just not
realistic. The amount of money that they

1116
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:04.800
put towards the suites and season ticket
packages. I mean, it could be

1117
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:08.439
done. I mean that's the part
where everyone is just automatically is like,

1118
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:15.640
no, the money's I think you
can look towards the fans and how to

1119
01:33:15.159 --> 01:33:18.119
you know, isn't that so that's
not a people like I hate gimmicks,

1120
01:33:18.159 --> 01:33:24.359
so people, you know, some
people like gimmicks and I like to mix

1121
01:33:24.439 --> 01:33:30.600
it up and see things differently.
Now, my thought with being a baseball

1122
01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:36.279
czar and one of the parts and
even with the like the Tigers playing at

1123
01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:44.720
eerie or something, looking at the
ballpark dimensions and if it would really affect

1124
01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:46.920
the game, the major league game, you say, no, you can't

1125
01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:53.840
have that kind of center field.
It's too now. Look the Yankees whatever

1126
01:33:53.880 --> 01:33:58.840
their short right porch. That's all
we hear about every time at Yankee Stadium.

1127
01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:01.960
If there's something that would be even
closer than that, well you might

1128
01:34:02.079 --> 01:34:04.399
have to consider, like, no, well then you would not play at

1129
01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:10.600
that park. I could. I
get that part. I always thought,

1130
01:34:10.640 --> 01:34:14.439
and it always gets shot down by
baseball people when I brought it up as

1131
01:34:14.479 --> 01:34:17.239
being a sports are is that you
know, I've never been to a spring

1132
01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:20.000
training game that would be on a
bucket list. I wouldn't mind just you

1133
01:34:20.039 --> 01:34:26.640
know, lounging around down in Lakeland, going around and watching some spring training

1134
01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:30.399
games sounds a little fun. Nobody
cares about who wins or loses. It's

1135
01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:39.159
just about going to the ballgame.
Why not. But because of the weather

1136
01:34:39.399 --> 01:34:46.520
here in Michigan in April, you
are really rolling the dice. I have

1137
01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:51.439
always thought that depending on the schedulem
and if you start ten games out of

1138
01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:55.720
the road and you come back,
I know, sometimes it can be seventy

1139
01:34:55.800 --> 01:35:00.760
degrees and then it could you know, but you'll at least have a little

1140
01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:03.359
bit better of a chance if you're
pushing it back, if you don't have

1141
01:35:03.439 --> 01:35:08.319
to play your first you know,
game until at home, until April fifteenth

1142
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:12.319
instead of April the first. I
don't know, I'm saying that you don't

1143
01:35:12.359 --> 01:35:15.680
have the Farmer's Almanac and all the
numbers here, But just because it's later

1144
01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:18.359
in the year, it seems like
you have a better odds year in and

1145
01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:23.760
year out to have it a little
bit warmer. And it's a key,

1146
01:35:24.039 --> 01:35:27.520
like you know, you going down
to a ball game when it's fifty degrees

1147
01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:30.399
and sixty degrees, it makes all
the difference and whether people are going to

1148
01:35:30.520 --> 01:35:39.239
go or not. So my thought
was, why not open up the Major

1149
01:35:39.319 --> 01:35:43.439
League season down in Lakeland? Now? I don't know exactly what the ballpark

1150
01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:45.039
dimensions are down there. And again, you know, you get to the

1151
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:49.399
attendance. Is it is it so
small of a park that even drawn three

1152
01:35:49.520 --> 01:35:57.720
four thousand for a fifty degree game
at co America, is you know,

1153
01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:02.159
is better than what you could have
in what the attraction could be if you

1154
01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:08.319
actually had a real ballgame, real
stats that mattered, a game that really

1155
01:36:08.399 --> 01:36:15.000
mattered down at Lakeland. That has
been my idea. Now you know baseball,

1156
01:36:15.079 --> 01:36:20.039
He said, well, they are
the dimensions and the attendant. You

1157
01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:26.199
know, they go and they play. They just played. The Phillies played

1158
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:29.359
in London and I looked at that
ballpark. You know, it looked like

1159
01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:34.439
you know, Tropicana overseas or something. You know, nobody likes tropic Cana.

1160
01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:39.640
And that's that catwalks all over the
place and it looked much like a

1161
01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:42.880
baseball stadium. Now, I know
that made a lot more money than they

1162
01:36:42.920 --> 01:36:47.319
would not at Lakeland and everything else, but that is my thought. It

1163
01:36:48.359 --> 01:36:55.199
puts a wrinkle in, it changes
things up, and it might help weather

1164
01:36:55.359 --> 01:37:00.880
wise when it comes down to it. That's where I would be a sports

1165
01:37:00.920 --> 01:37:04.479
are Freddie said, played all double
headers on Saturdays. That would shorten up

1166
01:37:04.520 --> 01:37:11.039
the season. The Players Associated.
I mean, every time you get to

1167
01:37:11.119 --> 01:37:14.119
this and you start saying, well, could it really happen? The Players

1168
01:37:14.199 --> 01:37:16.800
Association would look at this and Tony
Clark would immediately say, we want one

1169
01:37:16.880 --> 01:37:20.479
hundred million dollars more for every player
if we're going to do this. Freddie

1170
01:37:21.640 --> 01:37:26.439
was able to say, look,
you can bring the minor leaguers up.

1171
01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:30.199
There's so many rules and everything,
but you could adjust those. That's the

1172
01:37:30.279 --> 01:37:33.960
part where we're at now and what
has happened over the last five years where

1173
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:38.720
five years ago you immediately just out
of hands say no, you know you've

1174
01:37:38.800 --> 01:37:42.840
got the players' rights and you don't
want to start the clocks, and well

1175
01:37:42.840 --> 01:37:46.279
you can change all of that.
It can change. And I know you

1176
01:37:46.439 --> 01:37:50.239
have to bargain it because you got
your you got your deal and everything else,

1177
01:37:50.319 --> 01:37:54.800
but I mean, if you are
looking towards what is better for the

1178
01:37:54.920 --> 01:37:59.680
game, and I know these guys
can't do anything like it was, go

1179
01:37:59.800 --> 01:38:02.000
back to the pandemic when they had
the opportunity to get back onto the fields

1180
01:38:02.039 --> 01:38:04.560
with the fourth of July and just
what it would have meant for the country

1181
01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:08.079
and everything else. And no,
no, they weren't able to. They

1182
01:38:08.159 --> 01:38:13.439
weren't able to come to agreement,
even though you know so right, they

1183
01:38:13.479 --> 01:38:15.319
would never do that. But that's
on them, that's not on us,

1184
01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:21.600
And it could be better for the
game if they went that. What's really

1185
01:38:21.680 --> 01:38:26.479
better is if they just if they
actually did trim up the season. But

1186
01:38:27.119 --> 01:38:33.439
that's not going to be very realistic
considering that you're always pushing for not only

1187
01:38:33.560 --> 01:38:38.880
more money, but then more money
and everybody make more money, and automatically

1188
01:38:39.640 --> 01:38:45.439
cutting down the season is going to
hurt that opportunity. So those things,

1189
01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:49.760
because if we are being real,
it would be best if they just had

1190
01:38:49.800 --> 01:38:54.479
a one hundred and fifty six game
season. It would be better. If

1191
01:38:54.800 --> 01:38:58.880
you know, the NBA, the
players, they don't want to, they

1192
01:38:59.079 --> 01:39:03.439
don't they sit out. You know. However, they have gone through all

1193
01:39:03.520 --> 01:39:09.159
of the different max performance and everything
else, so we know they don't play

1194
01:39:09.239 --> 01:39:15.159
the games. They go to the
load management and then they're gonna be out.

1195
01:39:15.039 --> 01:39:19.399
So let's get a number where they
think that they can play every game

1196
01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:23.239
at least when you're going in.
I don't know what that number is.

1197
01:39:24.600 --> 01:39:27.279
I do remember that strike short in
the season where they you know, they

1198
01:39:27.399 --> 01:39:30.640
just played forty games. It was
great. Regular season games meant a lot.

1199
01:39:30.720 --> 01:39:36.239
But you know that's again looks very
unrealistic in terms of how much money

1200
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:40.960
these guys and you'd say, hey, how about we just slash everybody's salary

1201
01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:45.159
in half and that's going to be
better for the game. What are the

1202
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:49.399
chances that they're going to do that
now? Zero? That's what they're gonna

1203
01:39:49.439 --> 01:39:55.560
do. But can they change some
different things up? That's the sports are

1204
01:39:55.920 --> 01:39:59.399
I was thinking about. You know, in football, they actually they are

1205
01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:03.199
changing things up. You know,
they've got a rule and it's not that

1206
01:40:03.319 --> 01:40:06.319
I can't wait, but it's going
to be one of those things that will

1207
01:40:06.319 --> 01:40:12.960
be intriguing in the exhibition season,
and that is the new kickoff rule.

1208
01:40:14.239 --> 01:40:18.800
So the kickers they kick off from
their own thirty five yard line. That's

1209
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:21.960
not going to change, but they're
going to be there by themselves. It's

1210
01:40:23.039 --> 01:40:28.159
just going to be one single kicker
standing on his own thirty five yard line

1211
01:40:28.239 --> 01:40:33.119
and the rest the other ten guys. They are going to not only move

1212
01:40:33.199 --> 01:40:39.319
up to the forty they're going to
move into the opponent's territory all the way

1213
01:40:39.439 --> 01:40:45.119
up to the forty yard line,
and then they're going to kick it off,

1214
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:56.319
and the idea is that this is
supposed to improve this high bred kickoff

1215
01:40:56.399 --> 01:41:00.199
model is supposed to it's going to
lessen the impact, you know, from

1216
01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:06.479
guys running full speed down there and
breaking up the wedge. But there's the

1217
01:41:06.640 --> 01:41:13.359
idea that this is going to that
this is going to be able to get

1218
01:41:13.439 --> 01:41:15.439
more kickoffs. Now, there's just
a story out today to say teams are

1219
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:18.199
just going to kick it out of
the end zone and let teams get it

1220
01:41:18.359 --> 01:41:21.239
from their what do they get it
from the twenty five? Just get it

1221
01:41:21.279 --> 01:41:25.039
from the thirty? Well where were
you at? Man? I'm sorry,

1222
01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:29.720
Oh we just got to get to
break. Oh well, let's do that

1223
01:41:29.880 --> 01:41:33.079
and then come back and continue taking
your calls. Eight sixty six, eight

1224
01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:38.199
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1225
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Coming up later today at three on
the Huge Show in the Michigan Sports

1232
01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:32.399
Network, I'll deliver huge opinions on
everything you're talking about. Tiger Send Derek

1233
01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:40.319
Scoogle to the Mound tonight in Houston, as Detroit is down in Texas to

1234
01:42:40.359 --> 01:42:44.279
open up a three game set against
the Astros. Eight to ten. The

1235
01:42:44.439 --> 01:42:48.319
time for the ball game tonight with
the Tigers Ace on the mound. Welcome

1236
01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:53.359
in actors and bros and the Michigan
Sports Network. I'm Dennis Fifthian in Formatt

1237
01:42:53.399 --> 01:43:00.359
Shepherd. On this Father's Day weekend
Friday, we're asking you about your favorite

1238
01:43:00.439 --> 01:43:08.840
dad sayings on this that's a holiday
weekend. We're also asking you specifically about

1239
01:43:09.119 --> 01:43:15.039
to changes in sports and you have
the chance to be the sports czar and

1240
01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:18.119
you can make a change in sports. I'd like to hear from you on

1241
01:43:18.279 --> 01:43:23.640
that. Eight six six eight three
eight forty eight forty three. On the

1242
01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:27.319
Mayer Hotline, we do have open
topics. Is there something you're thinking about

1243
01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:30.239
of any of the stuff that we've
talked about from the sweeps and the possible

1244
01:43:30.279 --> 01:43:34.560
sweeps in the NBA and NHL to
anything with the Tigers. We've talked a

1245
01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:40.439
little bit about the NFC North and
how much the Packers scare you as a

1246
01:43:40.640 --> 01:43:45.560
Lions fan. All of that on
the table and available for you. Text

1247
01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:49.239
in sports radio to all one word
to twenty one thousand. We can get

1248
01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:58.720
your feedback in that way. This
falls into the category which is looking into

1249
01:43:58.840 --> 01:44:03.039
your your favorite dad sayings. You
know, there's the one where you know,

1250
01:44:03.199 --> 01:44:06.760
this never happened to me, but
you know you often you see it

1251
01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:10.399
in movies and you hear other people
say, oh, you know, you

1252
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:14.640
went to pick up a young lady
and you had to meet her father,

1253
01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:18.399
and the dad had something clever to
say to you, to like warn you

1254
01:44:18.520 --> 01:44:24.720
against your you know, being nice
to his daughter. And it kind of

1255
01:44:24.760 --> 01:44:29.079
falls into this category with the sayings
I think this is from a movie.

1256
01:44:30.560 --> 01:44:32.560
I have thought about it, and
you know, I actually have had the

1257
01:44:32.640 --> 01:44:35.680
opportunity and it's going to be pretty
easy to do. Maybe I need to

1258
01:44:35.720 --> 01:44:43.039
do it. You just need to
find yourself a bullet, find yourself a

1259
01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:48.840
bullet somewhere, and then when you're
you're meeting the prospective boyfriend that's going out

1260
01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:53.880
and your daughter's there, and you
know, he comes into the room.

1261
01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:57.560
You just take that bullet and then
you just underhand, you just you just

1262
01:44:57.720 --> 01:45:02.000
toss it to the you know,
and he catches the bullet and you know

1263
01:45:02.279 --> 01:45:05.560
it's gonna catch him by surprise a
little bit. And then you walk up

1264
01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:09.039
to him. I guess you could
say it out loud. I think it

1265
01:45:09.159 --> 01:45:12.199
might be better if you're whispering it. And then you you know, you

1266
01:45:12.279 --> 01:45:15.640
really see what kind of you know, a young man you're dealing with.

1267
01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:20.640
But you say, nice catch.
If you mess with my daughter next time,

1268
01:45:20.920 --> 01:45:26.199
it's gonna be that bullet's gonna becoming
a lot faster at you. And

1269
01:45:26.279 --> 01:45:30.119
then that's it a little funny.
You know. They just crack a smile,

1270
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:33.920
pat him on the back or something. But he also knows whoa you

1271
01:45:34.000 --> 01:45:38.359
know now that that's the kind of
father saying that I can get down with.

1272
01:45:39.680 --> 01:45:43.800
Yeah, I might not like that
one, but like I said,

1273
01:45:43.880 --> 01:45:48.199
I've never tried anything like that.
I have heard of things like somebody like

1274
01:45:48.399 --> 01:45:53.039
has something you know, mounted on
the wall or something they tell a young

1275
01:45:53.119 --> 01:45:55.159
man. You're like, you know, look what's up there? You know

1276
01:45:55.319 --> 01:45:59.720
that's I don't know, but the
you know, that could fall into the

1277
01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.840
category my dad. Most of what
he had to say to me that I

1278
01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:09.319
remember was mostly about sports, and
a lot of it had to do with

1279
01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:14.479
with golf, and you know,
to him, you know, telling me

1280
01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:19.439
how I swing the club like a
baseball bat or I needed to let the

1281
01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:25.319
club do the work. I wasn't
good enough to be mad at the game,

1282
01:46:26.359 --> 01:46:30.000
but I played enough and was not
very good. But I had this

1283
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:34.199
big slice and I still do.
And he had always at some point,

1284
01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:38.479
you know, you try to,
you know, teach your son to you

1285
01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:41.560
know, hit a ball straight or
whatever else. But at one point,

1286
01:46:41.680 --> 01:46:45.079
you know, we were playing in
this scramble tournament and he came out on

1287
01:46:45.159 --> 01:46:50.119
the first tee and and there was
nothing about you know, swinging at like

1288
01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:54.319
a baseball club where he said,
I want you to play your slice,

1289
01:46:55.319 --> 01:46:59.119
and I started aiming so far to
the left. You know, you'd look

1290
01:46:59.159 --> 01:47:00.399
at me and say, wow,
look to set up. It isn't boom.

1291
01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:04.520
It would be swinging out there,
and I hit a couple that were

1292
01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:10.279
just you know, that did the
trick for that day. Playing that slice

1293
01:47:10.399 --> 01:47:15.159
was pretty good. Baseball, saying
if it was close enough to be called

1294
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:17.960
to strike, then it was close
enough to swing. Now that just might

1295
01:47:18.039 --> 01:47:21.880
be a good one to think about
for anyone out there, not a bad

1296
01:47:21.960 --> 01:47:28.439
dad saying either eight six six eight
three eight forty eight forty three on the

1297
01:47:28.479 --> 01:47:33.000
Meyer hotline. Now being a sports
are and making a change in sports.

1298
01:47:34.640 --> 01:47:40.520
When it comes down to a college
football I think there should be one last

1299
01:47:40.800 --> 01:47:45.520
non conference game. I would definitely
put that into play. Right now we

1300
01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:54.439
have three. Most teams want to
just schedule three home games and then three

1301
01:47:54.560 --> 01:47:59.680
real, super easy games, and
nobody benefits. The fans did not benefit

1302
01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:03.119
at all from those games. Nobody
likes watching those games. I mean,

1303
01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:06.560
you like football so much that you
do watch them just because you like your

1304
01:48:06.600 --> 01:48:12.039
team so much. Once in a
while, you know, you get a

1305
01:48:12.199 --> 01:48:15.000
great non conference game. This year, Michigan's playing Texas. That's very nice.

1306
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:20.199
But you know the other two games
Arkansas State Fresno State, you know

1307
01:48:20.439 --> 01:48:26.199
that's not really doing it. If
you cut one of those games out and

1308
01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:30.000
then you know, play a play
a conference game, you get a better

1309
01:48:30.119 --> 01:48:35.800
feel for you know, you have
this incredible if we're talking about the Big

1310
01:48:35.880 --> 01:48:42.640
Ten, incredible Big ten. Now
where you are going to play without the

1311
01:48:42.800 --> 01:48:48.720
divisions a conference championship game, it
gives you a better gauge on who actually

1312
01:48:49.560 --> 01:48:56.239
should be in that game. I
definitely think they should do that. Lop

1313
01:48:56.359 --> 01:49:00.760
off a conference game, knock off
a non conference and play an additional conference

1314
01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:03.279
game. I would like him to
see that. I would like him to

1315
01:49:03.319 --> 01:49:12.520
do that. I'm sorry now I
would also In terms of rules, I

1316
01:49:12.640 --> 01:49:17.159
don't like this one, but I
think they should change it up the pass

1317
01:49:17.239 --> 01:49:24.760
interference in college football. You can
throw a guy could get fifty yards down

1318
01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:27.800
the field and be wide open,
and the defensive back knows it and he

1319
01:49:27.960 --> 01:49:31.239
just tackles them because he knows it's
just going to be a fifteen yard penalty

1320
01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:34.159
instead of a you know, fifty, and that what leads to an eighty

1321
01:49:34.239 --> 01:49:39.039
year touchdown. I don't like that, But the flip side is is that

1322
01:49:39.199 --> 01:49:42.199
you have a referee and you're putting
so much power and it's such a big

1323
01:49:42.359 --> 01:49:46.319
play that they throw the flag.
And I do know that we had a

1324
01:49:46.520 --> 01:49:51.479
caller this hour that said they wanted
to do away with replay all together.

1325
01:49:51.680 --> 01:49:57.199
For the human element, I think
the genie is out of the bottle.

1326
01:49:57.279 --> 01:50:04.760
There but they definitely could and can
do a better job with replay. I

1327
01:50:04.840 --> 01:50:14.640
always feel like they what your idea
of irrefutable obvious video evidence is way different

1328
01:50:14.720 --> 01:50:21.039
than mine. Irrefutable video evidence takes
five seconds to take a look at and

1329
01:50:21.159 --> 01:50:25.520
you're like, but we can all
see that that's as clear as day.

1330
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:29.359
One hundred people out of one hundred
people would say that that is not the

1331
01:50:29.399 --> 01:50:31.920
way they do things when it comes
to replay. They say that they have

1332
01:50:32.000 --> 01:50:36.520
to have irrefutable video evidence. But
it comes down to, well, let's

1333
01:50:36.560 --> 01:50:41.159
take a look at it from one
hundred angles. Let's wait five minutes,

1334
01:50:41.680 --> 01:50:45.640
and then let's let's change. I
think that one more times than that.

1335
01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:50.319
They want to change what's going on
over there. It needs to be done.

1336
01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:57.600
If you can't tell within five to
ten seconds that it's completely obvious to

1337
01:50:57.880 --> 01:51:01.279
a ten year old of what the
is, then the call should stand.

1338
01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:10.600
If they practice that and did that, I think you could give power to

1339
01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:12.800
you know, they say the eye
and the sky. You know, people

1340
01:51:12.880 --> 01:51:17.239
feel like it's conspiracy. But with
that fifteen yard flag, you throw the

1341
01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:20.800
flag and the referees all get together
and you have an official up in the

1342
01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:23.840
booth and he takes a look at
it, and he says, you know,

1343
01:51:24.079 --> 01:51:27.600
this guy just blew that, No, he did not touch him.

1344
01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:33.039
That should not be a fifty yard
pass interference call. When then you radio

1345
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:35.840
down to the team that are huddled
in there, I kind of believe that

1346
01:51:35.920 --> 01:51:41.079
they do this already, and then
you pick the flag up. But it

1347
01:51:41.159 --> 01:51:44.520
needs to be done in a timely
manner. But those are very subjective things.

1348
01:51:44.680 --> 01:51:49.600
Timely manner, irref evidence, and
then you will have a hundred talking

1349
01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:54.479
heads that it's going to make the
claim that the games are so big and

1350
01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:58.640
the calls are so big and they
change that. Don't you want to get

1351
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:01.479
it right? That's always the argument
about the irrefutable video evidence. But don't

1352
01:52:01.479 --> 01:52:04.800
you want to get it right?
We've watched enough of the games where we

1353
01:52:05.399 --> 01:52:10.199
they don't get it right, that
they change so many of them. It's

1354
01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:15.199
so arbitrary. And we have the
experts, the experts who in this case

1355
01:52:15.319 --> 01:52:20.199
will who be whoever the broadcast crew
is. If I took a hundred broadcast

1356
01:52:20.279 --> 01:52:24.199
crews, and you know, you
have guys who played the game as the

1357
01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:26.960
color analyst, and you have guys
that are calling the games that have done

1358
01:52:26.960 --> 01:52:30.159
it for years, who are sort
of experts when they take a look at

1359
01:52:30.199 --> 01:52:31.880
these things, they've seen them,
a million of them, and seeing with

1360
01:52:32.039 --> 01:52:38.560
the with the actual color analysts who
have played the game, those guys,

1361
01:52:38.720 --> 01:52:44.319
and then and then even in addition, they'll bring in a long time the

1362
01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:47.439
referee, you know, as the
analyst, whoever it is, Jim,

1363
01:52:47.720 --> 01:52:53.199
you know, all of them that
come in there that used to be a

1364
01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:59.880
referees, They half of the time
get it, are on the opposite side

1365
01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:03.600
of the officials on the field or
the court. I mean, it's just

1366
01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:08.560
that we've seen enough of it to
know that I know they'll say, oh,

1367
01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:10.680
well, this is what's going to
happen. No, it's the exact

1368
01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:16.319
opposite. And so that is very
frustrating as a fan. Changing that to

1369
01:53:19.359 --> 01:53:25.560
shorter, understanding that there's just going
to be when it's close, it's going

1370
01:53:25.640 --> 01:53:30.680
to be a fifty to fifty call, figuring out that irrefutable video evidence needs

1371
01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:38.880
to be in a quicker, more
timely, shorter range. I would like

1372
01:53:39.000 --> 01:53:42.079
to see that. Now, what
can you do? These are the things

1373
01:53:42.159 --> 01:53:45.760
that when I think about being a
sports are This is a losing one as

1374
01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:49.520
well, But it's just it struck
me again watching the NBA finals I like

1375
01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:53.680
watching the NBA. I enjoy it. I know there's a lot of people

1376
01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:56.239
like I haven't watched an NBA game
at ten years. All right, well

1377
01:53:56.279 --> 01:54:01.039
this one really isn't for you.
But it just there was, it came.

1378
01:54:01.399 --> 01:54:04.640
It comes to light every single game
that I watch. It's it's my

1379
01:54:04.720 --> 01:54:12.359
biggest complaint of watching the NBA.
It is the players that that cry and

1380
01:54:12.560 --> 01:54:18.039
moan and complain after every single call. And you know, you say,

1381
01:54:18.079 --> 01:54:20.720
well, you're an old guy,
and you know you're shouting at but and

1382
01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:25.319
even going back to Michael George,
that was my biggest thing. You know,

1383
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:29.319
yeah he was against Detroit and you
know he was a rival and all

1384
01:54:29.399 --> 01:54:31.960
these things, but you know,
Jordan, he cried too much. He

1385
01:54:32.159 --> 01:54:36.199
cried about every call. If you
know, I don't think you can actually

1386
01:54:36.239 --> 01:54:40.720
put a rule in like you start
teeing everybody off. I mean, there's

1387
01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:45.000
because it's gone so far that everybody
accepts us that there are even some people

1388
01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:48.199
that are like they like it.
They like the players complaining. I heard

1389
01:54:48.239 --> 01:54:53.279
somebody complimenting Luka Doncic. It's like, oh yeah, he's got a running

1390
01:54:53.439 --> 01:54:56.720
commentary with the fans. He's screaming
at the fans, he's yelling at the

1391
01:54:56.800 --> 01:55:03.560
raft. That's not good. I
think a plea to the players that it's

1392
01:55:03.680 --> 01:55:09.159
you're ruining the game. I understand
that you have to let some of your

1393
01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:12.520
emotions, and I understand sometimes that
they absolutely do blow it and so you

1394
01:55:12.640 --> 01:55:16.920
do want to throw your hands up
and be exasperated. But every single call,

1395
01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:26.000
can you minimize the complaining for the
good of the game. Can we

1396
01:55:26.119 --> 01:55:30.399
get Joe Dumars to talk to these
players and say, look, and as

1397
01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:35.359
much it made me think with Donca
Shall I enjoy watching playing that, but

1398
01:55:35.760 --> 01:55:39.680
with every call, I think,
you know, I'm just going to route

1399
01:55:39.680 --> 01:55:45.119
for the Celtics and look at their
guys aren't completed. Jalen Brown and Jason

1400
01:55:45.159 --> 01:55:48.760
Tatum. They don't seem to as
much now I said that, and then

1401
01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:53.840
last game they were both throwing up
their arms too. So every almost everybody,

1402
01:55:54.800 --> 01:56:00.039
if you don't, it's it's very
difficult. If I said, do

1403
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:04.079
you know any players that absolutely don't
the very never complain about anything, There's

1404
01:56:04.159 --> 01:56:08.560
like very few of them that even
come to mind. Joe Dee is like

1405
01:56:08.680 --> 01:56:14.760
one, but he hasn't played in
twenty years. Could they do that to

1406
01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:21.039
minimize complaining if I was the sports
are Adam Silver's like, I got a

1407
01:56:21.119 --> 01:56:26.319
lot on my plate and you're talking
about minimizing complaining. Good luck with that,

1408
01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:30.039
But that is something that I would
like to see. The other thing

1409
01:56:30.119 --> 01:56:33.479
that is an easy one, but
it's also a money one. But man,

1410
01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:38.720
and they did get rid of one
of them. The NFL cut their

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preseason games from four to three.
Now they added a regular season game,

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and you have to pay full freight
if you're a season ticket holder, you

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know, for those exhibition games.
So that's why they're there. I mean,

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01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:54.720
it's no benefit for the players with
warming up or being able to you

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01:56:54.800 --> 01:56:58.680
know, and Sean mcvayh doesn't play
any of his starters anyways. You know,

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it's a complete joke. It's it's
always been mostly a joke, the

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exhibition games, but since Sean McVay
came in, it was like, we're

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even taking this to it. You
know, there's not even one series that

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we're gonna put our guys. We're
gonna put a bunch of guys that you

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and then you'll have to pay the
full amount of money for it. So

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I know it's a money thing,
but can we get down to at least

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two. I can handle two.
But the four was that the fourth preseason

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game. As much as we wait
and we sit around, we are doing

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it today talking about, oh,
I can't wait for the n IF by

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01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:42.000
the time you get to the fourth
preseason game, that was that was about

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01:57:42.000 --> 01:57:45.920
the worst in all of sports,
even if you love football, watching that

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01:57:46.039 --> 01:57:49.720
fourth one and now the third one. But if you could just have two,

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I think if you would, actually
you are excited to watch the first

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01:57:55.000 --> 01:58:00.960
one the second one, you actually
could have a dress rehearsal. Let's go,

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01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:05.720
let's do that. That's another thing. Most of these and we know

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that the money part's always going to
be the big stop sign, but they

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are for the fans and what is
better for the games, So that would

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be the one that I would like
to see for the NFL. Let's get

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rid of that. That exhibition game. I go to an outstanding writer.

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He passed away probably fifteen years ago
now, but his name was the Killer.

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His name was Tom Kowalski. He
was a long time Lions beat reporter.

1437
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And I didn't know Tom Kowalski really
well. But there was one exhibition

1438
01:58:53.039 --> 01:58:57.199
game I was covering it, hey
was covering it and It was after the

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game. We were riding down on
the elevator together. Out just so happened.

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It was me and the Killer.
The Killer was wearing at this exhibition

1441
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game flip flops. And you know, i'd see him during the regular season,

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you would have a dress shirt on, and you know he was I

1443
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don't know about a tie, but
he was dressed up. He was not

1444
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for this exhibition game. He had, like I said, flip flops.

1445
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You look like he just came from
the gym. And I said to him

1446
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on the elevator ride down, where's
your tie? Killer? You're you're dressed

1447
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like you're going to the beach.
And it was like I had lit a

1448
01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:39.760
stick of dynamite and threw it to
him. And you know, sometimes you

1449
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hear people in the rediar you said, that guy can't act like that all

1450
01:59:42.039 --> 01:59:45.680
the time, or he can't act
like a This is how the Killer was.

1451
01:59:45.720 --> 01:59:47.199
He was so passionate about it.
And when I said, you know,

1452
01:59:47.239 --> 01:59:53.600
where's your tie or where's your shoes? He said, when they start

1453
01:59:53.680 --> 01:59:57.800
taking these things seriously, that's when
I'll take it seriously. And he like

1454
01:59:58.000 --> 02:00:01.000
slammed his fist into the elevator and
it just set him off for the whatever

1455
02:00:01.039 --> 02:00:05.960
it was two minutes on the ride
down. When they start playing these games

1456
02:00:06.000 --> 02:00:11.399
and they matter, well that's when
it's gonna matter to me. The elevator

1457
02:00:11.439 --> 02:00:14.279
opened up, you know, he
stepped out and walked ahead of a good

1458
02:00:14.359 --> 02:00:16.880
day, and I was like,
okay. I was like, an Killer,

1459
02:00:17.800 --> 02:00:21.279
that's the man when it comes down
to exhibition games. So that's a

1460
02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:27.239
nod to Killer. I want to
thank Ben Zost producing great job today.

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Ben, Thank you. Thanks everybody
for calling, texting in everybody have a

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wonderful Father's Day weekend. Thanks to
Matt Shepherd for letting me fill in here

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on the Michigan Sports Network. I
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later this month, so I'll be
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