Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and
laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go
out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think
this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from
yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You
play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's
a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care
if you don't have any witch. You go play to win. When you
start telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out because the matter that's
right. It is six h two here on this Friday, June the fourteenth,
Dennis fitting an inn for Matt Shepherd on Axis and Bros. It's great
to be here on the Michigan Sports Network. I'm pinch hitting, I think,
but the six to seventh time that I've been able to put this headset
on and talk into the mic along with the ben who's producing, and take
you into the weekend. Most of the times it has been on a Friday,
and you know Fridays. Not to get too repetitive of what I say,
but I don't like everyone. Most of everyone, it's my favorite day
of the week. And so here we go heading into a Father's Day weekend.
That's gonna be one of the themes today. I'm gonna get to some
sweeps here in this first segment. And if you are a football fan,
I am looking ahead to the seven o'clock hour and I am going to zero
in on the NFC North, and I'm thinking about the Lions, and I'm
thinking about the Packers. And I will ask you I found filling in a
few times that not everyone out there is a Detroit Lions fan. But it
feels like if you're not a Detroit Lions fan and you're listening, you're a
Green Bay Packers fan or a Chicago Bears fan, which works nicely if you
want to talk about the NFC North. But the Lions are the champs,
and we'll just see how nervous, how scared you are about the Green Bay
Packers for this upcoming season for the Lions. Maybe you're just sitting out there
with your chest out and you're thinking, no, I think that's actually where
the majority of the right lying fans or at. But we'll get to that
coming up. I I'll get to it. Give you my thoughts on how
scared I am of the packers in an hour from right now. But you
know, heading into this Father's Day, I also wanted to ask the folks
out there if you think back, sometimes dads are funny. You know,
they've they've got You can go on the internet and are you they I know
because I got a book myself over the last few years of you know,
Father's Day saying, you know Father's Day, you know your dad will have
these, you know, silly things that he say. Well, we all
do those, so we all get into there and and and have our own
sayings. But if you had any special one that you think that the audience
would like, I would like to hear from you on that. This morning,
I'll give you an example. We know the US Open is going on.
I know shep was out at the golf course. I was just listening
to a huge talk about eating lobsters, getting in line and sounded like he
was out at the golf course worse as well, out there in West Michigan.
And whenever I would play golf and I would get mad, my dad
would say, Dennis, what I tell you about getting mad? You are
not good enough get mad, and which would kind of make me mad.
So I had to play with an even keel. You know, you play
with people, get upset. It's a frustrating game. But he repeatedly.
And now that I was thinking about, what was What did my own dad
say over the years that would be interesting or funny. Most of them had
to do with golf, but that was the one that actually and I still
think about that one whenever I get out there and hit a good shot that
I'm sitting out there perfectly, and then I just, you know, kick
one really bad. I say, you know, it's not gonna be mad.
I'm not good enough. I am not good enough to be bad.
Now you know how good I would have to be before I would get mad.
You know, we never got to that point. I don't play that
often, so it still fits to this day. I'm not good enough to
get mad playing golf. It's my father's day. Twenty twenty four, saying
to you, if you're a golfer, if you've got one of those,
you can get in on that. I want to get to what happened last
night in sports, and I watched the majority of Game three of the Stanley
Cup Finals up there in Edmonton and Florida hangs on. They went at four
to three over Edmonton. So the Florida Panthers are one went away from their
first Stanley Cup ever. Now they're in position to sweep Edmonton as they're up
three to go. And as you probably know, the Celtics tonight can close
out the Dallas Mavericks in Big d and they can sweep and it happens.
But it has not happened in the both NHL and NBA playoffs where the finals
has been swept since nineteen ninety five, so it has been a while where
we had twenty four twenty nine years it has been. And it was the
Rockets on the NBA side taking down the Magic and then it was the Devils
and Marty Broduor taking down the Detroit Red Wings, and it just for me
made me think when they finally punched through in won the Stanley Cup in ninety
seven, it was a forty two year old drought. If you're not old
enough to remember, the Red Wings were considered to be a gigantic jinx.
They kind of like people look at the there's a lot of teams, teams
that don't win, you know. For the it was the Cubs and the
Red Sox, and in baseball for the longest time until they ended it.
But it was the Red Wings like the leafs. Like now people looked at
the Toronto maple leafs and you know they do seem cursed. But for the
Red Wings, it was like that exercise the ghosts, and they did it
forty two years. They were able to do it in ninety seven when they
got through, but in ninety five when they made the finals, you know,
you're thinking this is gonna be it. And it's funny the things that
you remember in sports. But I can remember on that opening night, getting
ready to play the Red Wings and the Devils and the ninety five Stanley Cup
Finals. I had a car with no air conditioning. On a day like
today, it seemed like the maybe there was a strike that pushed the season
backs, and it seemed like it was even further into June than right now,
but I don't know, maybe not, but maybe the point is is
that I was drying in my little car with no AC over to my friend's
house, and you know, I had the radio blasting on some you know,
you'd think music with no sports talk like you know right now, and
I was just getting pumped, you know, for that game. And you
know, that's like my entire memory of that series, the drive over to
my friend's house and for the next I wasn't the next twenty five years,
but certainly for the next ten years, getting together with my friends for the
for the playoffs, and for sure the Stanley Cup finals and you know the
Red Wings then, you know, winning in ninety seven, ninety eight,
coming back in two thousand and two, doing it in two thousand and eight,
and you know, sweeps, if it's your team you're here, a
Florida Panther team, Florida Panther or a Boston Celtic fan, you know,
you're you're fine, You're happy with a sweep. You just want to get
it done. If you are who else would be If you're gambled, if
you battle the Florida Panthers or the Boston Celtics to win, you know you
don't want to have a good series, but everyone else, and I think
it's the majority of us. You know, it's a letdown. What does
everyone say if you're not betting, or if you're not a fan of that
team, you just want to see a good series. Oh when people ask
me, who do I want to see? I want to see a game
seven. I want to see drama. I want something to talk about on
the radio. Well, we're not getting that. We're just getting two teams
that are ready to They've got the brooms poised and they're ready to just put
their opponent into the bin. We'll get to what else happened yesterday in sports
and get you ready for this weekend. On this Father'sday weekend, I'm Dennis
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Dennis, fitting in for Matt Shephard head into this Father's Day weekend.
I was looking at the weather report and I like it when they put emoji's
out there, and for this weekend, it looks pretty good. They had
the emoji with the dude with the the sunglasses, you know, and even
though it was going to be hot, pretty good. But then on Monday
they had the frowning and then the other, I don't know, exasperated emoji
guy and it said muggy muggy starting on Monday. Nobody likes a muggy day.
Hot. You're okay, but nobody's out there, you know, because
you can say, well, I like this, you know, I'm going
to the beach, but nobody likes muggy. So but We don't have to
worry about that until Monday. All right. We're looking back to what has
happened in sports yesterday and getting you ready for the weekend. I've got the
question out there for you with Father's Day, and we're looking for your favorite
saying from your father. If you've got a good one that you think the
audience would like, you can jump in on that. Of course, you
know you're a sports fan. I don't know you like football. You want
to get into that right away. I will be talking about the Lions and
the Packers and the Bears, and I'm gonna put the mix in there with
the Vikings. Why not with the NFC North. How scared you are as
a Lions fan of the Green Bay Packers. We'll get to that coming up
at seven oh one. I was looking back to last night with Florida uh
beating Edmonton four to three and pulling within one game away from winning their first
Stanley Cup. And they have the three oh series lead, and both in
the NBA and NHL we have three oh series lead, which made me,
you know, think about sweep saying, you know, it's it's just watching
Kyrie Irving from the MAVs saying, yeah, it's just about pride. It's
just about pride now, and you know it's demoralizing even as a fan.
I was thinking as I was watching the game last night, the hockey game.
Edmonton is such a we would say hockey hotbed. I mean, they
love their hockey. If you told me that per capita, that the folks
in Edmonton liked hockey more than anyone else in the world, you know,
you wouldn't get any pushback from me. You know, there's probably a lot
of people in Canada and say, now we're but Edmonton's right there, especially
with the success that they've had over the years and everything else. But and
we used to always joke about, oh, you'll get a great sheet of
ice up there. You know, it's cold and and and all of that,
and I have to deal with uh, you know, you always are
thinking about that it's gonna be good that way. But watching the you know,
the anthem and the crowd just like let's go Oilers and all of that,
I was thinking about. I was holding you know, you wait the
whole time and you're you know, wanting to win the Stanley Cup. How
excited would you be to go to a game four on what's Saturday night.
If you're an Edmonton Oilers fan, when you're down three to zero and you
have to be you know you just love hockey, You're gonna go, hey,
it's the Stanley Cup Finals. You start playing like the things. You
know, stranger things can happen. But when you get to these stranger things
can happen, not so much. In in Stanley Cup Finals history, there
have been twenty eight teams that have been up three to oh, and twenty
seven out of twenty eight times, the a team that's been up three to
oh has one. So you pull out the emojii's saying oh. So you
say there's a chance. There is a chance. Toronto took down the Detroit
Red Wings in nineteen forty two back from a three deficit. So that's where
we sit, Ben, Are you ready to do you do you think that
the Edmonton Oilers, as we go back to the studio, would you predict
that since that they would be the first team to come back from a three
oh series late since nineteen forty two? I don't think they have it.
Yeah, I don't either. If there's something fluky all one goal games,
you know, a discrepancy like on the power play or something something that you
would pull in, like there's a major injury to Bobrasky got hurt last night
and you would say, oh, I don't know, you can get a
backup goal and whatever. But there's none of that Florida. Every time you
watch them, they look better and as much as uh, you know,
you watch the playoffs over the years, and in particular the Stanley Cup finals,
you uh, you watch and so many times you know, you'll you'll
watch a game and this is what it's a great thing about hockey. It's
also one of the frustrating things about hockey. You'll watch and there it seems
like it comes down to a puck bounce here, a post, there,
a deflection, and it's like, is that it I mean, but that's
not what it is with Florida. I mean, the Oilers scored first,
uh yesterday, I'm sorry, the pan scored a goal late in the first
but then the Oilers tied it up. But then there was the floodgates and
there was no like a bounce here, a bounce there. The Panthers they
scored three goals in just over six minutes, and you know, there was
a two to one one. There's you know, a guy beating the oiler
defenseman in the back of the night and putting it out to Tarasinko who's sitting
in there right all alone in the slot, right in front of the goaltender
Skinner who made the bad play and back of the goal. The point is
is that it was Florida looked like they were in the regular season, playing
one of the worst teams in the NHL, not a Stanley Cup Finals.
When they were on a roll, right, there was no thing about,
oh a bounce here, a bounce there. You could have talked about that
in the first period, and they were talking about that after twenty minutes,
but not after forty minutes. It was a very impressive display by Florida.
You know, the sweeps. I was just thinking about in Detroit sports history,
and I mentioned the Red Wings, you know, getting swept by the
Devils in ninety five. If you then think about the Red Wings history,
they went out when they finally did win it over the Flyers, what happened.
They swept them. They swept the Flyers in ninety seven, and then
when they came back in one back to back in ninety seven and ninety eight.
In ninety eight they beat the Capitals. That was also a sweep.
So the first two times in forty two years when they they broke the the
Hecks or the Stanley Cup drought, the Red Wings were able to get sweeps
in the Stanley Cup finals. So then I was thinking about the Pistons.
The Pistons, when you think about sweeps, the last three times that they
have been in the playoffs, they have been the Bucks did it, the
Calves, and I don't know who the other one was in there, probably
Milwaukee again swept out of the playoffs. But if you think about the Pistons
when they finally won the NBA championship in eighty eight eighty nine, they took
on the Lakers, and what happened in that series. The Pistons swept the
Lakers. That's what happened. So you know, the sweeps on one side,
the sweeps on the other. I say finally, because the Pistons the
year before had taken on the Lakers and they were in a situation to beat
La but they lost that game six. With the tough fowl. I believe
that was the game that Isaiah had twenty five in the first quarter, but
you know went down with the hook shot with Kareem Lambert was like the plane
of vertic Cavilli. Everything that you would teach as a coach about how to
play defense in the post, there was Lambert, and yet they called him
for the Phantom File. But the Pistons came back and they were and then
the year before it was the ceth Diics. But then they finally did get
the sweep to get their first NBA Finals. Coming up next one of the
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about. Well, the Detroit Tigers salvage a game yesterday afternoon, beating the
National seven to two. Tigers has lost five to six, so they get
back on the plus side of things, Except when you're looking at the overall
record, there's still two games under five hundred. They beat the National seven
to two yesterday. Hey, it is Dennis Fifthion here on Axes and Bros.
And the Michigan Sports Network. Florida. They are one game away from
winning their first ever Stanley Cup as they beat Edmonton in Edmonton last night by
a final of four to three. All right, we're going to talk about
the Lions coming up at seven oh one, and just how much do the
Green Bay Packers scare? You want you to think about that question? I
am going to answer it coming up at seven oh one. I have the
question out there for you, and this is this is perfect to use the
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Father's Day weekend. Something your dad would say, a funny, a serious,
something that has stayed with you in sports or otherwise. You can text
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Sports radio to twenty one thousand, give me that favorite dad saying in this
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We've had open topics out there for you. I'm going to get to what
a big time baseball stats guy had to say this week. And his name
is Bill James. And if you're a baseball fan, stat driven a person
you'll know the name Bill James. Bill James put a tweet out the notion
that no one except a small child should get a foul ball is a very
recent phenomenon. Ten years ago. James says, an adult could catch a
foul ball and nobody would say anything about it. Now I saw that.
Let me first ask Ben Zost, who's producing Ben, have you ever caught
a ball at a baseball game. I have not. That would be exciting,
but no, it would be exciting. It's something that we all think
about or maybe dream about. I never have either, but I have seen,
buddy of it. It's happened around me, and there is no doubt
that you can be affected. Most of the time when you see, especially
when online, you'll see the like adult like pushing a kid out of the
way. Nobody. We're not talking about anything like that. But what James
is saying is that even if you are there and you catch the ball,
then you're supposed to immediately find a child in your vicinity and you're supposed to
hand the ball to. Now. I do agree that there feels like there
is a little pressure to do that if you're an adult at a game.
I don't think that this is some recent phenomenon. If he wanted to say,
I don't know, twenty five years ago, an adult could catch a
ball and nobody would say anything about it, I'd buy it. But you
know, ten years ago, so that would be my quibble with what he
has to say about that. But I've always you know, since I have
never caught a foul ball or any kind of baseball at a game. And
you know, I've got kids at home and they're older now, but and
the you know, nephew and nieces. I could very easily have seen myself
at a baseball game as a fan if I caught my first foul ball ever
and people are pressuring me, were looking at me like, hey, you're
going to give that ball up? I was thinking, you know, no,
I'm going to How about I'm going to take this home and I'm going
to give it to my kid or I am going to actually give it to
somebody in my family. I'm not going to be pressured by you. So
I do know that that's out there, that you know, that feeling that
you should be giving the ball away. You know, a long time ago,
I've got one of the best seats I ever got, were just given
to me randomly on a Sunday, somebody called and said, hey, you
want to go to the Tigers game? Pre tickets would drive you there and
everything else. And you know why not. I was in college and I
remember going to this game. We went to the guy's house and not only
did he have the tickets and was he driving us to the game. He's
like he had he had a family outing over the weekend. He said,
Hey, there's a cooler full of drinks in there before we go. You
guys help yourself. So not only are we getting free tickets and free parking
and everything else, Hey here's a cooler full of drinks. The point of
this story is is that the tickets were great. And the guy who I'll
never forget his name, his name was Ace. I don't know that,
you know, it had to be a nickname, but didn't ask too much
about that. The guy's names Ace. His tickets were great. Were sitting
a couple of rows behind the Tigers dugout, and this was Tiger Stadium,
so it was back in the day. But the that is foul ball territory
obviously, right, you know you're sitting here, but I can recall sitting
there and seeing the foul ball get hit up in the air, you know
whatever. It was fifty sixty feet and it's coming down right at me,
but it just goes like two or three seats down and who catches it but
Ace, who's right there. And I was never happier for anybody to catch
a foul ball that I barely knew then Ace as give me the tickets all
the things that I talked about. So I'm like, hey, that's great,
great job Ace, you know, high five and while having our laughs
and so there it is. That's not a really big deal. But later
in the game, almost the exact same thing happens. You know, the
foul ball's coming. Like I'm thinking, oh, this one's coming right for
me, I'm getting this one. But at the last second I got it's
just you know, streams over and who catches it. But Ace again,
two foul balls in the same game. I was reminded about a month ago.
It was it was a Mariners game. There was a guy down the
left field line. Just he wasn't in home run territory, just in foul
territory, but way down the line there. So it was not just some
lazy foul ball behind the dugout like I'm talking about. But this guy caught
back to back foul ball almost home runs. And they were like, what
are the odds of this? And somebody was like the very you know,
winning the lottery type of odds. There not so much for Ace. But
you know, that was my story with a foul ball. I was close
but the guy that I wanted to see catch it, he caught too.
The kicker on that was that when Ace caught his second foul ball, he
was so happy that he bought a round of hot dogs for everyone that was
with him there. So it was a hell of a day for Ace and
it was also a very memorable day for me. There was also one time
where a home run ball. I was in the overhang at Tiger Stadium with
my nephew who's four years old. Some I'm four or five years old,
and there might have only been another three or four people up there on the
upper deck in this day game at Tiger Stadium. But I'm reminded a lot
about this particular event by two things that happened. One, Bobby Bonilla was
playing for the Baltimore Orioles, and every year Bobby Bonia there's a Bobby Bonia
Day. Benia signed a contract, a I don't know, twenty five year
contract where he gets a million dollars every year, and everybody's like, well,
that such a great contract. It's fun. But I'm always reminded because
Bobby Bonilla slams a home run into the right field upper deck with me and
my nephew sitting there, and if I would have just stood up, I
think it would have hit me right in ahead. But it was hit directly
at me, a home run ball into the upper deck. And what happened.
I did panic a little bit. You know, when one's hit right
at you and it's a home run, it's like and nobody else is around.
I'm like, this is it. And I remember my nephew, you
know, he's four years old. He's like, we're going to catch a
baseball. I want a baseball. I'm like, oh, yeah, we're
gonna catch one. I'm lying to him. But then here it is.
It's coming right at me. I panicked a little bit, and you know,
I'm grabbing the kid and I went down a mistake a row or two,
and it ends up just clearing my hand and you know, karm's over
like fifteen feet. And the long story short is this kid beats me to
the ball by like a foot and I don't get it. And so that
part was disappointing. Disappointing that I didn't just catch it. But in the
years after, I will hear It's not once every year, but it's it's,
you know, once every couple of years. I'll be just watching a
baseball game and the analysts will say, you know, the the toughest ball
to catch is one that's right at you. And I always say, you
know what he is exactly right. I know what he's talking about, because
that bonea ball was coming right at me. That's not really the point of
this. This was Bill James saying that there's a notion that every small child
should get a foul ball is a recent phenomenon. I would also add into
that if you go to a game and you're sitting in the outfield and the
opponents hit a home run, you are pressured at Coomerica to throw that ball
back. So and if I am judging the ranges of hey, you catch
a lazy foul ball like ace, like right where the dugout was, this
is pretty easy catch. I mean he could have just had his hand out.
Pretty easy catch a home run ball, you know, especially if you
catch it and this thing is, you know, coming at you and at
a one hundred and five miles an hour or whatever it is exit velocity,
and you can reach up and snag one, and it's for the opponent.
And I've got one hundred people in my section saying throw it back. I'm
feeling like telling everybody to go jump on a leg. But definitely is that
pressure throw it back. I would not throw it back. I would more
likely leave the section because people would be like, you know, I don't
know about harassing, but definitely jeering for me to enchanting for me to throw
it back. But I would not. I don't think I would succumb to
the pressure of throwing the ball back. But oftentimes people do succumb to the
pressure to throw it back. Man, and everybody cheers woo, and then
you know you're a hero for a second. But I don't know if that's
worth it or not when you're doing that to throw it back. Old Bill
James speaking of Bill James, for the longest time, when somebody I always
had my own idea about when somebody is that, who's the greatest baseball player
of all time? You know, I do my work and think about all
the different stats and everything else. This is before guys like Bill James,
and you know there was wins abovely above replacement and all these things, and
you know, I'd say, Willie Mays, they're all the number crunching babe.
Ruth in there, Hank Aaron, and then these guys started ranking all
of different players. Well well, James and however he did it. I
always liked his list and and James came up with and he also would put
Egro league players in the in the mix too. And then this year you
probably know, I don't know last month or the month before, they included
the statistics from the Negro leagues and now with Major League Baseball, and some
people were up in arms that the Ty Cobb Society did not like it because
Cobb had the highest batting average, and then he was supplanted by Josh Gibson.
But you know, James had included the players you know long before,
you know, years ago, and he did not have Willie Mays as the
number one baseball player. He had Babe Ruth. And I didn't think there
was much, you know, I wasn't gonna argue too much about that because
they don't. Ruth is I think an easy one to go and put up
there. But his I think he did the ten. This could have even
been twenty years ago. They did it with his statistics talking about Bill James,
but he put Babe Ruth one. Hannis Wagner two again, you know
that I think about baseball cards, that's like the most valuable one, the
honest Wagner card. And Willie May's at three. All right, there's my
guy, and then four was Oscar Charleston, and then five ty Cop and
I was like, what who Oscar Charleston. So even when it comes down
to Negro League players, Josh Gibson I knew who he was. Of course,
Satcho Page, you know, you know the names, and if you're
the Tigers fan, the Detroit Stars, Turkey Sterns, you know you'd know
that name. But I didn't know the name of Oscar Charleston. So I
can recall having to look and sing just some great center fielder and he went
on to be an equally successful manager. I don't know if James put that
into the mix, but he had Oscar Charleston above Ty Cob. I just
have always thought out, if I got a hundred bayall guys, people that
were really into the history of the game, stats, wore Baseball Reference of
anything, fan graft guy, all one hundred of them, and put them
all together, how many would have put Oscar Charleston anywhere close to a top
five player of all time in Major League Baseball. Well, Bill James would
and he did, and he for those that are interested rounding out the top
five man Old Ted Williams, the great pitcher, Walter Johnson, Josh Gibson
who I mentioned, and then Stan Usual at ten. But I always thought
that was intriguing that that was his. You know, everybody's got their their
thing, like this is the guy I'm standing for, Bill James. He
puts Charleston. I always wonder. I haven't researched this. I don't know
where Bill James is from, and I think Charleston played it the majority of
his baseball and he played in a lot of different places. But I think
Indy and I wonder if there's some kind of connection and if I would guess
now, you'd like to think that everybody is just if you're if you're trying
to rank players, and certainly if you're somebody like James who does it and
has a numbers based you know, that's how he's a formula based that he
is trying to remove any bias and he is just good. You know,
he is trying to guide baseball fans, you know, for the greatest players
of all time using a formula. But I have a suspicion that not that
I don't know if he tweaked his formula with it, that that somehow Charleston
has a connect to James, whether somehow, I guess would be that he
lived by him some way. That's it. I we're all suspicious when anybody's
doing any ranking. He's like, Oh, no, you're just a Lions
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because you know, oftentimes it's correct. I mean, people there's I don't
know how many. And then you know, even if you're a scientist,
they're always talking about trying to remove bias and everything. How many real sports?
I mean, I know you're supposed to if you're a journalist and you
have the you're not supposed to root for anything. You're just looking and trying.
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looking for some kind of angle, like why is this person saying this and
why is he doing that? Well, it's not bias. It's the Lions
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over, and you know the torque that he hits with. And then you
know, you go out yourself and you try something like that and you hook
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The Bears they didn't have anything going for them. Well, I guess they
had fields. The Packers had a first time starter in Love. We didn't
know, not even I was gonna say completely. We just didn't have that
good of an idea on what he was going to do. It looked like
the biggest threat was going to be the Vikings, and then Cousins are halfway
through the season, got hurt, and the Lions they ran away with the
NFC North and won twelve games. And now we sit here in this offseason.
The Lions are favored again, but the Packers are right there in their
rear view mirror and Jordan Love, he and I think it was the game
that the I think it was on Thanksgiving, now the week before of the
Packers won, but he threw three touchdowns against the Lions, and then it
was at his coming out party. I'll leave that for Packer fans. Maybe
one will say, no, no, it was this game. It felt
to me like it was the Lions game on Thanksgiving. And then after that
with the Packers, you know they close strong. Love started playing well and
and now you listen to the I don't know the NFL experts and when they
look at Love, and I gotta admit, when I look at it myself,
he looks a lot like he plays a lot looks a lot like Aaron
Rodgers. The way rose to ball, the way he moves around, the
way he operates the offense. A young, healthy and engaged Aaron Rodgers engage,
like not showing up to the training camps and OTA's and not doing whatever
Aaron Rodgers is doing right now, which I'm not really even sure he's in
South America or something out in the rainforest. Whatever, that's that's his business.
But I'm talking about the Packers. Do they scare you? How much
would they scare you if you're a Lions fan. I want to hear from
a Lions fan or a Packers fan, you know. Previous to this year,
I always I didn't find it amazing, but it was interesting. Lion
fans really didn't know how to act in terms of having a good football team.
It. You know, we know about the history, but what happened
in the off seasons for the Lions previous to this year was that Lion fans
were really cocky in the off season without having any reason to be cocky.
And in fact, you know, like you know, they were the worst,
the worst franchise, and yet the fans the off season and for many
of the fans were like, yeah, I mean, it all goes out
the window when you actually have to play and then you lose, and then
it's you know, damn it. And then you just wait to the next
off season, you wait to the draft at your super Bowl. And it
was rinse and repeat for my entire life. And I would watch and listen
to the Lion fans and they all were kind of the same. That was
it. They didn't have anything to brag about during the season. The off
season was that was their time. As soon as they and it certainly wasn't
the Super Bowl. As soon as the Super Bowl ended, that's when Lion
season for fans started. They could, you know, start talking about,
oh, we can move the money to land a top free agent. They
just got you going, oh Trey Flowers and just pump you up. And
then obviously the draft. Anytime you're armed with one of the top picks,
that is your super Bowl. So now, you know, it's interesting.
I don't even know how Lion fans you know, they were cocky before.
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to the upcoming season. But the Packers are there, and we know that
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that the Lions are going to have to beat as their biggest contender. If
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that's a good word for you. I am I'm a little bit scared of
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the quarterback position, with Farvaran Rogers and now Love. It's not hard to
look at the Packers and say, this is an organization that just you know,
this is one of the premiere organizations. And then they're sitting here.
The Lions had their year. They're in the rear view mirror for me,
so that is that is scary. That is a little bit scary. But
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at XB mornings. How much do the Green Bay Packers scare you? Also
looking for the dad sayings on this Father's Day weekend, we got a couple
of those texts. Oh, let's hear them, man, let's hear a
couple. Yeah. One is from from Pete Ford Rockford. It says patients,
he's a virtue. There you go. That's a that's a good dad
saying. And then this one's from Freddy it says says my father would always
say, if you're healthy and your bills are paid, you're the richest person
in the world. World. Now, I love it. I love hearing
ones like that. That's better than go get me the belt or go get
me the uh something about mowing the loan or you know those kind of ones.
Now. Mark on Twitter said that Jordan Love is overrated, and he
says that he took teams by surprise last year. There was really no game
film of him to be studied by opposing defenses. He will not sneak up
on anyone this year. Now, that's a that's a decent opinion. At
first, Mark just said he's overrated, and I felt like, you know,
that's what a Lions fan would say, and you know that he's overrated.
And there is a point you have the game film. Normally, when
I'm thinking about you have the game film, I think about a scheme overall
on one side of the ball, and then you know you're you're gonna make
those adjustments, and you know the other teams, teams that have success,
other teams are studying. You're studying every team, but then you're you're studying
the team, certainly in your division, on anything that you can do.
And yet part of that what Love does well, you know, the counter
is is that he was in there for the entire season and then he improved
as he went and he played well in the postseason. But there's no doubt
that being able to get the entire offseason and then trying to find something you're
not gonna just do the same things with him. You know, you're always
making those adjustments. And the part about him not sneaking up on anyone,
Now, could you say the same thing about the Lions. You know,
you could say that about anyone. But that's why if you're a Lions fan,
you feel good about where you're at right now heading into this season.
You know that it wasn't an aberration. You don't fall into twelve wins,
you don't get lucky to win two playoff games. You know there could be
a call, and when you go back and look at things and everything else,
you know you end up being where you're at. But if you lost
a substantial amount of your team and you looked at it and or there was
let's say like the you know, the Lions. You know the offense was
was ranked really highly last year. If it wasn't and then it just you
know, perked up for two games, you could say, wow, you
know they only did it for two games, But you have the entire season
to look at with the offense being the a top three offense, with you
know, the passing game ranked number two, and then you have those pieces
coming back. You know. The thing to me, if you are if
I am just and I do just like you do, you know, I
look and say, well, well it was a fluke and what wasn't and
and all of that. The thing that is surprising to me about the Lions
with their success last year, is that I've been asked, you know what
was the key? People like to say what was the superpower for the Lions?
Well, their offense was the engine. And they've got an enormous amount
of talent when you look at what they have on offense and what they're bringing
to the table. But the thing that I would say that is the key
to all of it was their offensive line play led by Pinney Sewell, of
course. But the thing that is strange is that the offensive line they weren't
all together healthy last year. That wasn't a unit. If that was a
unit that was together for almost the entire season, and you'd say they did
not miss any game injuries and they did not have any big injuries, and
you know that was the key. Well, that would be the key,
and the offensive line was the key, but they weren't together for the majority
of the season. In fact, they had nine different combinations. You know,
they went Decker, Jonah Jackson, rag Now, Glasgow and Sewell from
left to right, but they had nine different combos with guys being out at
different times. Rag Now with the toe, you know, Decker being out
a few times, and they do replace Jackson, who was good in a
former third round pick with Kevin Ziegler. But Ziegler, you know, when
you look at him, is thirty four old for an offensive lineman. You
could say that. You could also say, well, the Ravens, you
know, moved on and they're one of the better organizations. But he was
just a name to his first Pro Bowl. That's not nothing. Last year,
and he did have the second best passing blocking grade for guards and all
the NFL, the second besty this, you know, you could make a
case he's an upgrade in there. So to me, that's the strange part
for the Lions. Not a floky part, but that the number one thing
that you would say about them is that they have this excellent offensive line and
you're going to need that for Jared Goff and yet they had nine different combinations
over there, so they were able to overcome that and still perform. I
just like you know, you go through you want to say there's questions and
they'll have to prove it, certainly in the passing game and being able to
get to the quarterback, no doubt. And they drafted that way. At
free agency, they went that way. I mean, you could see what
they have tried to do there. But man on offense, it's a lot
of fun. Goff has a tremendous tandem of running backs that he's got a
thunder and lightning. You know, Gibbs, the sky's the limit, Jamir
Gibbs. After watching him as a rookie last year, Montgomery is uh is
everything that you thought. Remember, you know you wanted the Lions. Jamal
Williams scored for the eighteen touchdowns and you thought, well, keep him going.
He loved Detroit so much, but they upgraded. You know, Montgomery,
he catched the ball. He runs as hard, physical runner in between
the tackles a manra Yeah, they lose, they lose something in depth and
wide receiver. But I mean how much Reynolds are they gonna Is that something?
I don't think so that they're gonna mess because I think Jamison Williams,
he's You're expecting quite a bit more from him this year. And you know,
Laporta was a surprise man. Laporta even if he's got to even to
be surprised at the Lions front office. They liked him, they picked him,
they drafted him high. I thought maybe he could play early. Did
they really think, hey, you need to be the best tight in the
NFL. I mean, that's the idea, that's the hope. But that's
got to even surprise them as you're sitting there right now. But the Packers,
I think a lot of it has to do with the uh, the
history, the current organization that the head coach, and then yeah, the
quarterback. I mean all of that. If you are able to as a
Lion fan, just be like, no, there's there's nothing scary at all
about the Packers. It's more of a confidence in the Lions and what they
have. I get that. I think that's I think that's the way to
go. And it's not up to a fan to say, well this,
you know, the Packers have been one of the model organizations, and just
look at how they have been able to, you know, find a quarterback
and now look at how they were able to put it together last year.
I think if you tried to, it's a little bit surprising. Just like
I was talking about with the Lions and the different offensive line combinations that they
had. When I look at the Packers and their wide receivers, it's not
like they look you looked out there. Aaron Jones was out for a lot
of last year. He was great against the Cowboys in the playoffs, and
we know that they have moved on and they have replaced him with Josh Jacobs,
the former Raider. But Christian Watson, how many games did he play?
A couple he came back finally, and then he had a really good
game and then he got hurt again. I think for the majority of the
season, I don't have the numbers in front of me. Ninety percent of
the season he wasn't even if he was available, wasn't effective and was bothered
by I believe a calf am. I looking at Romeo or Jaden Reid from
Michigan State and thinking, oh man, these guys, you got to really
account for them. I mean, they they seem like real, legit number
two wide receivers, just like Luke Musgrave. He was a rookie tight end
as well. He showed some promise, but then he was banged up a
lot. So for the it's a little bit of a surprise that when you
look at that that early didn't have a number one wide receiver. With Watson
being her they're tight end that they were counting on pass catching tight end.
He was banged up the majority of the time, so it was Jones,
and yet they were still able to, you know, get within striking distance
and almost play the Lions in the NFC Championship game the way they got hot
and the way they were playing. So yeah, they're really counting on Christian
Watson to come back. You know, I pound hit his name so much.
He was on my fantasy team, so I know, we get a
week out I had him, and then what did did he get hurt?
Like he wasn't. It didn't seem like he was hurt for the entire preseason,
but then it was like the practice week. Next thing, you know,
they're like, oh, he's out with a calf. And then he
was out for six the first six weeks, and then he he came back
and they were ramping him up for a game or two and then he just
exploded in a game. But then he got hurt the next game, and
I don't know did he even come back. Like I said, ninety percent
of the season, he seemed like he was out or you couldn't trust him,
or he wasn't in there. So the the scary part for the Packers.
Where are you at with that? So the rest of the North in
terms of being scared, I look at I'm not going to be scared of
the Vikings or the Bears yet. I do think that the Bears have you
know, they had a seven win season last year. Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams,
I'm not expecting him to just be like Stroud. I do think over
McCarthy probably. I mean, there's there's both of those teams. There's lots
to like with their rookie qbs and what they've been able to put around them.
But I still think rookie qbs, you know you're feeling pretty good.
If you're sitting up at the top, you know one of those will be
okay. I would I would guess the Bears more with Williams being the number
one overall pick and then the talent that they do have that they're sitting there
with, but still feeling pretty good about the Lions and what they will be
able to do. And it's bearing out when you look at anybody that talks
about them, they start talking about the NFC North, right, I'm sorry
that you start about the NFC overall, And yeah, the first name that's
coming out of your mouth is the forty nine ers. They're the favorite they've
got. You know what, if we're going to talk about turmoil with Brandon
a yuk, maybe I had I don't know, that's turmoil. Got a
contract situation right there, but that's about it. But after that, it's
the Lions and we've never been able to say that, and now we can.
So this is a unique off season and how Lion fans are handling it,
I don't know. I would imagine that they've just kicked it up from
one of of off seasons of being able to brag and be cocky when there
was nothing to brag about or be cocky about, to now that you can
that they've been able to take it to that level, it's different. You
really have to ask yourself because all of the years you say, when people
say, well, how do you handle yourself? Lion fans don't know.
I mean they've never had they've never been in a situation like this, so
you know, they handle it like sitting back saying I don't know. It
feels pretty good. You can actually say things and point to things that you
know that just happened. It's not about this is what you expect or you
know, false hope and the different things that you might say. So that
part it's feeling pretty good. Now. Coming up in the eight o'clock hour,
whatever sport is your favorite, I am going to have you be a
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how it took, you know, something like the pandemic. But then the
other times that you had some changes in sports were like the strikes or the
lockouts, and you're like, hey, those well, really well, I
really like how they did that. They're just sitting back with status quo and
saying, no, that's unrealistic. We're not doing anything like that. No
sports are. We'll get to that. We'll continue to read some of your
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Did you jen have a funny one, a good one, a one that
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and come back and seat. Don't pull out salaries or other things. Get
some facts and come back and see me. You can't handle the true now
told our players you need a bit more like a dog. We don't need
a bunch of cats in here looking in the mirror. I look good.
I got my extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a
doll. We don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We
need more dolls play out at the time. Are you not that detay we
weren't good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm
telling you we laid an egg. So I'm not going to break it down
for you. He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's
all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not going to
break it down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us.
We have to figure it out and we will needs your dad, Yes
it is. We get into the eight o'clock hour here on the Michigan Sports
that work down. It's fitting an end for Matt Shephard on the Axes and
bros. Well, we've talked about the the Lions and how much you are
scared of the Packers. You can get in on that. We're looking for
those father day sayings and now to talk about putting your sports Zar hat on
and make a change in sports, whether it's big or small, your favorite
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who leads off the eight o'clock hour here on x'es and Bros. Good
morning, Dennis, that'd be Fathers did to you great way, Hey,
same to you, Freddy. Appreciate it, appreciate it. So I'm gonna
be all over the board because I got our it's our idea and the Lions
and uh, I gotta kick out of you. Got a tweet earlier today
somebody said that Jordan Love is overrated. Yeah, you know, Lions fans
crackt me. Lions fans cracked me up. You know everybody else is overrated.
But you know, God forbid you say something about their player. Oh
you don't know what you're talking about. That that Jordan Love is not overrated.
Man, That team is, that team is peaking, and that that
division can be had by Green Band Detroit the next two or three years between
those two teams next two to four years easily. So that's just that's just
nonsense. But you know, before I to the ZAR thing something I've been
hearing the last two weeks is driving me up the wall. The Lions need
to get a number three wide receiver. They they can cemester the way to
the Super Bowl. See what bothers me about that situation is is Jared Goff
is who he is. Okay, you got Saint Brown and Laporte. These
guys are not stretched the field. They're yeat guys, right. They they'll
think they'll get the dump boss, and you know they'll get they'll get the
yards after the carry. And they're both incredible. This team is built by
the offensive line in the running game. Why don't fans ever consider getting a
third running back. I'm gonna throw all the name and I know he sided
you can't get them. But what would be so wrong if this team got
Dereck Henry as your third running back? I mean, this team has got
a better chance of running about thirty times in winning games keeping that defense off
the field. Then they are getting a third wide receiver and stretching it down
the field. I just you know, Freddy the only thing I could say
about the Lions. I mean, I think fans and maybe the media will
get tired of talking about them getting pressure on the quarterback or their their pass
defense, and the only thing that you can say about the offense everything else,
I mean, the every other position performed. You know, everybody's coming
back. The only guy that's not coming back is a third wide receiver in
Reynolds. And yeah, I mean you want to say that he could he's
a loss and that Donovan, People's Jones or Khalif Raymond are gonna they'll have
a tough time filling in for you know, his production. I don't know.
I mean that that's a that's a stretch, but I think that just
is. I think people get bored on one side of the ball and there's
only one thing to do. I mean, I don't think that you know,
usually you go to the quarterback and he say, oh well, but
I think people feel pretty good about where golf is at if he gets the
protection the players that he has around him. I mean, this this thing,
this thing is coming down to can you can you improve on the defensive
side of the ball, and can you take the next step and the next
step is getting to the super Bowl. So everything's got to come out and
you know they got to be on point with everything. Well, running the
ball is going to help that defense, right, no recording the clock.
And yeah, and I and I and I and I've said this kind of
before and and I'm not wishing for it, but you got to keep an
eye on Engineer gibbs Man that fumble. You know, I've seen guys in
the NFL for years get a fumble and it sticks with them mentally for for
a long while. And that was a big fumble that no one ever talks
about, uh in that game and uh, I mean, I know some
people talk about it, but that was a big fumble. And you just
hope it doesn't stick with that kid mentally because you just never know, especially
if he cops one up early and I don't. And I'm not wishing for
that. Well, that's something you've got to look out for because I've seen
it with I mean, Wendell Tyler. You go back and on and on
on. But bizarre thing. I got two, but one would be for
me, every sport get rid of vincent replay the human element. I missed
the human element of sports so much it's ruined the game. When people say,
well they get calls, they correct calls, Well, you know what,
they miss calls as well. To just keep the human element in life
in sports, and that's what I missed. But for baseball. What I
would do if I was the commissioner of baseball Now, I don't have a
calculator in front of me, and I can't do the math right now,
but I wouldn't Obviously, I would not shorten one sixty two. You got
to keep one hundred and sixty two games. But I would play a double
header every Saturday. Okay, first of all, the families can get out,
and you shorten us. You shorten the season that way. So maybe
you can go through May first through September first. Again, I don't have
a calculator in front of me, but May first through September first. If
you play a double header every Saturday, and what you do is you allow
six to eight players come up in the minor leagues every week to kind of
kind of help them with it double that weekend and you get more fun I
think, you get more fans in the ballpark. You shorten the season,
and then the season is done. By time October first comes and really the
NFL is really starting to kick in the high year, And that would be
that That's what I would do if I was a commissioner and I and I
think maybe once a month, I would take your Triple A team and you
know, maybe let them play a game before or after MLB game, let
the fans watch them play. You don't get to see these kids playoffsen.
I think it'd be I think it's all about the fan. I think this
would all would be about all about helping the fan. That's what I would
do if I was a commissioner of baseball. Let me just follow up on
that last one. I'd never have entertained that thought. So you were talking
about like the the mud Hens on a Friday night instead of playing down in
Toledo, they would play after the Tigers. Well, it wouldn't be a
night game, so you'd have to do it during a day games. So
you're talking about it a Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, allowing the Triple A
team then to play afterwards at Cole America or or or before you know,
or before you know, maybe maybe eleven am game, twelve am game or
twelve noon game, just something one of any any you know, maybe you
know one one minor league game a year from each you know, double A,
Triple A. It just it just gives these It gives these fans something
to look at, because in reality, a lot of them aren't going down
to these Aree and Triple A or Toledo. And I think it, I
think it would be kind of cool for the fans. I think I think
that's the problem with sports is everything's taken away from the fan. Now.
You know, I said your text earlier about Ace. You know, Ace
did all those things for you, right, because beers were four bucks or
three bucks, those tickets were seven dollars, parking was four dollars. Everything
squeezed out as a fan now and every everything, and and I just think
that we need to start looking come back at the fan. And I know
my phone's gonna come a cutout right now, cover in the band's all.
But that's that's that's what I would do, is is short and baseball and
bring and bring sports back to the fans. Well, Freddie, I'm gonna
jump on all of those topics. I loved it, and that's the way
it's done. If you're out there listening here. The sports are change something
up. It's got the wheels turning. We'll address some of those points coming
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Freddy last segment had a few interesting comments on some changes that he would make.
One he talked about bringing the Triple A team or the minor league team
to Comerica. He was talking about before a game or I was saying after
a game, like on the weekend and just thinking about that. You know,
if a game goes to extra innings, there could be some logistical situations
there, but there are plenty of off days that the Tigers have during the
calendar, And how about on one of those Mondays or Thursdays where the Tigers
are not playing, bring the minor league team up and let them play at
co America. That would give a lot of people an opportunity that otherwise would
not see their minor league team and make the trip to actually see them.
Now, the interesting part, would you ever take your major league team and
send them down to play at a minor league park for you know, once
or twice or three times a year for instance, you know the Tigers,
would you know, play a game down at Toledo, they would go to
Erie for a game? Could they go to West Michigan? Now immediately say,
well, the ballpark only holds you know, ten thousand. I mean,
that would pack it out. Maybe you would want to do that early
in the year with a weather where Comerica is not getting that many people.
Anyways, I know there's a lot of financial things that you'd come back and
say, oh, that's just not realistic. The amount of money that they
put towards the suites and season ticket packages. I mean, it could be
done. I mean that's the part where everyone is just automatically is like,
no, the money's I think you can look towards the fans and how to
you know, isn't that so that's not a people like I hate gimmicks,
so people, you know, some people like gimmicks and I like to mix
it up and see things differently. Now, my thought with being a baseball
czar and one of the parts and even with the like the Tigers playing at
eerie or something, looking at the ballpark dimensions and if it would really affect
the game, the major league game, you say, no, you can't
have that kind of center field. It's too now. Look the Yankees whatever
their short right porch. That's all we hear about every time at Yankee Stadium.
If there's something that would be even closer than that, well you might
have to consider, like, no, well then you would not play at
that park. I could. I get that part. I always thought,
and it always gets shot down by baseball people when I brought it up as
being a sports are is that you know, I've never been to a spring
training game that would be on a bucket list. I wouldn't mind just you
know, lounging around down in Lakeland, going around and watching some spring training
games sounds a little fun. Nobody cares about who wins or loses. It's
just about going to the ballgame. Why not. But because of the weather
here in Michigan in April, you are really rolling the dice. I have
always thought that depending on the schedulem and if you start ten games out of
the road and you come back, I know, sometimes it can be seventy
degrees and then it could you know, but you'll at least have a little
bit better of a chance if you're pushing it back, if you don't have
to play your first you know, game until at home, until April fifteenth
instead of April the first. I don't know, I'm saying that you don't
have the Farmer's Almanac and all the numbers here, But just because it's later
in the year, it seems like you have a better odds year in and
year out to have it a little bit warmer. And it's a key,
like you know, you going down to a ball game when it's fifty degrees
and sixty degrees, it makes all the difference and whether people are going to
go or not. So my thought was, why not open up the Major
League season down in Lakeland? Now? I don't know exactly what the ballpark
dimensions are down there. And again, you know, you get to the
attendance. Is it is it so small of a park that even drawn three
four thousand for a fifty degree game at co America, is you know,
is better than what you could have in what the attraction could be if you
actually had a real ballgame, real stats that mattered, a game that really
mattered down at Lakeland. That has been my idea. Now you know baseball,
He said, well, they are the dimensions and the attendant. You
know, they go and they play. They just played. The Phillies played
in London and I looked at that ballpark. You know, it looked like
you know, Tropicana overseas or something. You know, nobody likes tropic Cana.
And that's that catwalks all over the place and it looked much like a
baseball stadium. Now, I know that made a lot more money than they
would not at Lakeland and everything else, but that is my thought. It
puts a wrinkle in, it changes things up, and it might help weather
wise when it comes down to it. That's where I would be a sports
are Freddie said, played all double headers on Saturdays. That would shorten up
the season. The Players Associated. I mean, every time you get to
this and you start saying, well, could it really happen? The Players
Association would look at this and Tony Clark would immediately say, we want one
hundred million dollars more for every player if we're going to do this. Freddie
was able to say, look, you can bring the minor leaguers up.
There's so many rules and everything, but you could adjust those. That's the
part where we're at now and what has happened over the last five years where
five years ago you immediately just out of hands say no, you know you've
got the players' rights and you don't want to start the clocks, and well
you can change all of that. It can change. And I know you
have to bargain it because you got your you got your deal and everything else,
but I mean, if you are looking towards what is better for the
game, and I know these guys can't do anything like it was, go
back to the pandemic when they had the opportunity to get back onto the fields
with the fourth of July and just what it would have meant for the country
and everything else. And no, no, they weren't able to. They
weren't able to come to agreement, even though you know so right, they
would never do that. But that's on them, that's not on us,
And it could be better for the game if they went that. What's really
better is if they just if they actually did trim up the season. But
that's not going to be very realistic considering that you're always pushing for not only
more money, but then more money and everybody make more money, and automatically
cutting down the season is going to hurt that opportunity. So those things,
because if we are being real, it would be best if they just had
a one hundred and fifty six game season. It would be better. If
you know, the NBA, the players, they don't want to, they
don't they sit out. You know. However, they have gone through all
of the different max performance and everything else, so we know they don't play
the games. They go to the load management and then they're gonna be out.
So let's get a number where they think that they can play every game
at least when you're going in. I don't know what that number is.
I do remember that strike short in the season where they you know, they
just played forty games. It was great. Regular season games meant a lot.
But you know that's again looks very unrealistic in terms of how much money
these guys and you'd say, hey, how about we just slash everybody's salary
in half and that's going to be better for the game. What are the
chances that they're going to do that now? Zero? That's what they're gonna
do. But can they change some different things up? That's the sports are
I was thinking about. You know, in football, they actually they are
changing things up. You know, they've got a rule and it's not that
I can't wait, but it's going to be one of those things that will
be intriguing in the exhibition season, and that is the new kickoff rule.
So the kickers they kick off from their own thirty five yard line. That's
not going to change, but they're going to be there by themselves. It's
just going to be one single kicker standing on his own thirty five yard line
and the rest the other ten guys. They are going to not only move
up to the forty they're going to move into the opponent's territory all the way
up to the forty yard line, and then they're going to kick it off,
and the idea is that this is supposed to improve this high bred kickoff
model is supposed to it's going to lessen the impact, you know, from
guys running full speed down there and breaking up the wedge. But there's the
idea that this is going to that this is going to be able to get
more kickoffs. Now, there's just a story out today to say teams are
just going to kick it out of the end zone and let teams get it
from their what do they get it from the twenty five? Just get it
from the thirty? Well where were you at? Man? I'm sorry,
Oh we just got to get to break. Oh well, let's do that
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your feedback in that way. This falls into the category which is looking into
your your favorite dad sayings. You know, there's the one where you know,
this never happened to me, but you know you often you see it
in movies and you hear other people say, oh, you know, you
went to pick up a young lady and you had to meet her father,
and the dad had something clever to say to you, to like warn you
against your you know, being nice to his daughter. And it kind of
falls into this category with the sayings I think this is from a movie.
I have thought about it, and you know, I actually have had the
opportunity and it's going to be pretty easy to do. Maybe I need to
do it. You just need to find yourself a bullet, find yourself a
bullet somewhere, and then when you're you're meeting the prospective boyfriend that's going out
and your daughter's there, and you know, he comes into the room.
You just take that bullet and then you just underhand, you just you just
toss it to the you know, and he catches the bullet and you know
it's gonna catch him by surprise a little bit. And then you walk up
to him. I guess you could say it out loud. I think it
might be better if you're whispering it. And then you you know, you
really see what kind of you know, a young man you're dealing with.
But you say, nice catch. If you mess with my daughter next time,
it's gonna be that bullet's gonna becoming a lot faster at you. And
then that's it a little funny. You know. They just crack a smile,
pat him on the back or something. But he also knows whoa you
know now that that's the kind of father saying that I can get down with.
Yeah, I might not like that one, but like I said,
I've never tried anything like that. I have heard of things like somebody like
has something you know, mounted on the wall or something they tell a young
man. You're like, you know, look what's up there? You know
that's I don't know, but the you know, that could fall into the
category my dad. Most of what he had to say to me that I
remember was mostly about sports, and a lot of it had to do with
with golf, and you know, to him, you know, telling me
how I swing the club like a baseball bat or I needed to let the
club do the work. I wasn't good enough to be mad at the game,
but I played enough and was not very good. But I had this
big slice and I still do. And he had always at some point,
you know, you try to, you know, teach your son to you
know, hit a ball straight or whatever else. But at one point,
you know, we were playing in this scramble tournament and he came out on
the first tee and and there was nothing about you know, swinging at like
a baseball club where he said, I want you to play your slice,
and I started aiming so far to the left. You know, you'd look
at me and say, wow, look to set up. It isn't boom.
It would be swinging out there, and I hit a couple that were
just you know, that did the trick for that day. Playing that slice
was pretty good. Baseball, saying if it was close enough to be called
to strike, then it was close enough to swing. Now that just might
be a good one to think about for anyone out there, not a bad
dad saying either eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three on the
Meyer hotline. Now being a sports are and making a change in sports.
When it comes down to a college football I think there should be one last
non conference game. I would definitely put that into play. Right now we
have three. Most teams want to just schedule three home games and then three
real, super easy games, and nobody benefits. The fans did not benefit
at all from those games. Nobody likes watching those games. I mean,
you like football so much that you do watch them just because you like your
team so much. Once in a while, you know, you get a
great non conference game. This year, Michigan's playing Texas. That's very nice.
But you know the other two games Arkansas State Fresno State, you know
that's not really doing it. If you cut one of those games out and
then you know, play a play a conference game, you get a better
feel for you know, you have this incredible if we're talking about the Big
Ten, incredible Big ten. Now where you are going to play without the
divisions a conference championship game, it gives you a better gauge on who actually
should be in that game. I definitely think they should do that. Lop
off a conference game, knock off a non conference and play an additional conference
game. I would like him to see that. I would like him to
do that. I'm sorry now I would also In terms of rules, I
don't like this one, but I think they should change it up the pass
interference in college football. You can throw a guy could get fifty yards down
the field and be wide open, and the defensive back knows it and he
just tackles them because he knows it's just going to be a fifteen yard penalty
instead of a you know, fifty, and that what leads to an eighty
year touchdown. I don't like that, But the flip side is is that
you have a referee and you're putting so much power and it's such a big
play that they throw the flag. And I do know that we had a
caller this hour that said they wanted to do away with replay all together.
For the human element, I think the genie is out of the bottle.
There but they definitely could and can do a better job with replay. I
always feel like they what your idea of irrefutable obvious video evidence is way different
than mine. Irrefutable video evidence takes five seconds to take a look at and
you're like, but we can all see that that's as clear as day.
One hundred people out of one hundred people would say that that is not the
way they do things when it comes to replay. They say that they have
to have irrefutable video evidence. But it comes down to, well, let's
take a look at it from one hundred angles. Let's wait five minutes,
and then let's let's change. I think that one more times than that.
They want to change what's going on over there. It needs to be done.
If you can't tell within five to ten seconds that it's completely obvious to
a ten year old of what the is, then the call should stand.
If they practice that and did that, I think you could give power to
you know, they say the eye and the sky. You know, people
feel like it's conspiracy. But with that fifteen yard flag, you throw the
flag and the referees all get together and you have an official up in the
booth and he takes a look at it, and he says, you know,
this guy just blew that, No, he did not touch him.
That should not be a fifty yard pass interference call. When then you radio
down to the team that are huddled in there, I kind of believe that
they do this already, and then you pick the flag up. But it
needs to be done in a timely manner. But those are very subjective things.
Timely manner, irref evidence, and then you will have a hundred talking
heads that it's going to make the claim that the games are so big and
the calls are so big and they change that. Don't you want to get
it right? That's always the argument about the irrefutable video evidence. But don't
you want to get it right? We've watched enough of the games where we
they don't get it right, that they change so many of them. It's
so arbitrary. And we have the experts, the experts who in this case
will who be whoever the broadcast crew is. If I took a hundred broadcast
crews, and you know, you have guys who played the game as the
color analyst, and you have guys that are calling the games that have done
it for years, who are sort of experts when they take a look at
these things, they've seen them, a million of them, and seeing with
the with the actual color analysts who have played the game, those guys,
and then and then even in addition, they'll bring in a long time the
referee, you know, as the analyst, whoever it is, Jim,
you know, all of them that come in there that used to be a
referees, They half of the time get it, are on the opposite side
of the officials on the field or the court. I mean, it's just
that we've seen enough of it to know that I know they'll say, oh,
well, this is what's going to happen. No, it's the exact
opposite. And so that is very frustrating as a fan. Changing that to
shorter, understanding that there's just going to be when it's close, it's going
to be a fifty to fifty call, figuring out that irrefutable video evidence needs
to be in a quicker, more timely, shorter range. I would like
to see that. Now, what can you do? These are the things
that when I think about being a sports are This is a losing one as
well, But it's just it struck me again watching the NBA finals I like
watching the NBA. I enjoy it. I know there's a lot of people
like I haven't watched an NBA game at ten years. All right, well
this one really isn't for you. But it just there was, it came.
It comes to light every single game that I watch. It's it's my
biggest complaint of watching the NBA. It is the players that that cry and
moan and complain after every single call. And you know, you say,
well, you're an old guy, and you know you're shouting at but and
even going back to Michael George, that was my biggest thing. You know,
yeah he was against Detroit and you know he was a rival and all
these things, but you know, Jordan, he cried too much. He
cried about every call. If you know, I don't think you can actually
put a rule in like you start teeing everybody off. I mean, there's
because it's gone so far that everybody accepts us that there are even some people
that are like they like it. They like the players complaining. I heard
somebody complimenting Luka Doncic. It's like, oh yeah, he's got a running
commentary with the fans. He's screaming at the fans, he's yelling at the
raft. That's not good. I think a plea to the players that it's
you're ruining the game. I understand that you have to let some of your
emotions, and I understand sometimes that they absolutely do blow it and so you
do want to throw your hands up and be exasperated. But every single call,
can you minimize the complaining for the good of the game. Can we
get Joe Dumars to talk to these players and say, look, and as
much it made me think with Donca Shall I enjoy watching playing that, but
with every call, I think, you know, I'm just going to route
for the Celtics and look at their guys aren't completed. Jalen Brown and Jason
Tatum. They don't seem to as much now I said that, and then
last game they were both throwing up their arms too. So every almost everybody,
if you don't, it's it's very difficult. If I said, do
you know any players that absolutely don't the very never complain about anything, There's
like very few of them that even come to mind. Joe Dee is like
one, but he hasn't played in twenty years. Could they do that to
minimize complaining if I was the sports are Adam Silver's like, I got a
lot on my plate and you're talking about minimizing complaining. Good luck with that,
But that is something that I would like to see. The other thing
that is an easy one, but it's also a money one. But man,
and they did get rid of one of them. The NFL cut their
preseason games from four to three. Now they added a regular season game,
and you have to pay full freight if you're a season ticket holder, you
know, for those exhibition games. So that's why they're there. I mean,
it's no benefit for the players with warming up or being able to you
know, and Sean mcvayh doesn't play any of his starters anyways. You know,
it's a complete joke. It's it's always been mostly a joke, the
exhibition games, but since Sean McVay came in, it was like, we're
even taking this to it. You know, there's not even one series that
we're gonna put our guys. We're gonna put a bunch of guys that you
and then you'll have to pay the full amount of money for it. So
I know it's a money thing, but can we get down to at least
two. I can handle two. But the four was that the fourth preseason
game. As much as we wait and we sit around, we are doing
it today talking about, oh, I can't wait for the n IF by
the time you get to the fourth preseason game, that was that was about
the worst in all of sports, even if you love football, watching that
fourth one and now the third one. But if you could just have two,
I think if you would, actually you are excited to watch the first
one the second one, you actually could have a dress rehearsal. Let's go,
let's do that. That's another thing. Most of these and we know
that the money part's always going to be the big stop sign, but they
are for the fans and what is better for the games, So that would
be the one that I would like to see for the NFL. Let's get
rid of that. That exhibition game. I go to an outstanding writer.
He passed away probably fifteen years ago now, but his name was the Killer.
His name was Tom Kowalski. He was a long time Lions beat reporter.
And I didn't know Tom Kowalski really well. But there was one exhibition
game I was covering it, hey was covering it and It was after the
game. We were riding down on the elevator together. Out just so happened.
It was me and the Killer. The Killer was wearing at this exhibition
game flip flops. And you know, i'd see him during the regular season,
you would have a dress shirt on, and you know he was I
don't know about a tie, but he was dressed up. He was not
for this exhibition game. He had, like I said, flip flops.
You look like he just came from the gym. And I said to him
on the elevator ride down, where's your tie? Killer? You're you're dressed
like you're going to the beach. And it was like I had lit a
stick of dynamite and threw it to him. And you know, sometimes you
hear people in the rediar you said, that guy can't act like that all
the time, or he can't act like a This is how the Killer was.
He was so passionate about it. And when I said, you know,
where's your tie or where's your shoes? He said, when they start
taking these things seriously, that's when I'll take it seriously. And he like
slammed his fist into the elevator and it just set him off for the whatever
it was two minutes on the ride down. When they start playing these games
and they matter, well that's when it's gonna matter to me. The elevator
opened up, you know, he stepped out and walked ahead of a good
day, and I was like, okay. I was like, an Killer,
that's the man when it comes down to exhibition games. So that's a
nod to Killer. I want to thank Ben Zost producing great job today.
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