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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 this

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

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

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

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

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great thing about sports. You play
to win. I don't care if you

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don't have any wins. You go
play to win. You start telling me

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it doesn't matter to retire. Get
out for the matters. Damn right,

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it does. It matters out Thursday
two. It matters every day, doesn't

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at term? Right now? Welcome
everybody, Clade, you're with us on

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this Thursday edition of X's m Brose. Matt Shepard Ben is our producer.

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We welcome your thoughts on the Meyer
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Radio to twenty one thousand. There is

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plenty to discuss. The Tigers lose
yesterday in the series wrap up to the

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Guardians in Cleveland in ten innings five
to four. Andrew Chaffin gives up the

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ninth innings solo homer to David Who
to David Frye that tied the game,

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and then Brian Rochio singles in the
winning run in the tenth off Alex Lang.

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This was one of those situations.
Remember how I said not too long

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ago, if you were listening,
that sometimes managers will be hesitant to use

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a player out of the bullpen in
one inning and then start them in the

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next inning as kind of an up
down situation. You remember that, Yeah,

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I'm sure you do, okay.
Well, in the past, anyway,

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Alex Lang has been designated in that
category. Well, he came in

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and he got Loriano to strike out
in the bottom of the ninth with the

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game tied, and then started the
tenth A lot of times, at least

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from what I can recall, that
was not done because of certain situations,

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certain reasons that aj Hinch just didn't
want to do that with Alex Klin.

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Well, yesterday might be an example
of why he hasn't done it in the

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past. He takes the L Tigers, take the L back to a game

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above five hundred, and it's another
one run loss for Detroit. How much

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those matter? How much the one
run losses or one run wins matter?

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I don't know. What does it
show to you that you can get it

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done then you've got to go bullpen? Maybe there's quite a few things.

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I know this. The Tigers a
year ago were a game above five hundred

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in one run games. It mattered
for Baltimore because Baltimore had more wins,

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more one run wins than anybody else
in baseball. They were thirty and sixteen

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last year in one run games.
Thirty of their one hundred and one wins

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were by one run, So thirty
percent of your wins in those types of

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situations pretty damn important. On the
other hand, it's not always the most

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important thing. Dodgers were just sixteen
and fifteen in one run games, So

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I'm not trying to make too much
of it, but I'm not trying to

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make light of it. I just
want you to know the situations from a

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year ago. This year, the
Tigers have played more one run games than

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anybody else in baseball. Long way
to go, but still fifteen games and

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they're seven and eight. Yankees have
played twelve, they're nine to three.

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Phillies have played ten. They're eight
and two, and the Phillies are have

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the most wins in baseball right now. They're playing as well as anybody.

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They've established. They lost yesterday,
but they won eight of their last ten.

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They had that six game win streak
and there they lose to Toronto five

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to three. But they've got the
most wins in baseball right now with twenty

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six. So there you go.
I mean, that's kind of the situation

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that Detroit's dealing with right now.
They're off today and they open up a

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nice six game homestand this weekend starting
tomorrow with three against Houston. The question,

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I suppose for many will have to
be what you did in the tenth

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inning? See in the tenth inning
When you're the road team. The belief

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from aj Hinch and his staff is
that you go for a big inning.

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And when I say big inning,
I mean more than one run. I

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don't know how you feel about the
baseball rule. You put a guy at

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second base in the tenth inning,
but a guy in scoring position. Personally,

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I've always hated it. People have
warmed to it who originally didn't like

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it. I do not like it. Not to start the game or not

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to start the extra inning. I
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inning. Try to get your own
traffic on the base pass. If it

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doesn't work in the eleventh inning,
start a guy on first base. That

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doesn't work in the twelfth inning,
then start a guy on second base,

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and then it ends there. One
man's opinion, But the rules are what

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they are. You start a guy
on second base. The Tigers did just

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that. The out, the last
out from the previous inning starts at second

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base. So Detroit has a runner
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Wait for the inserted joke here.
It comes good. One ground ball,

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and what does Baiaz do? Bias
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The shortstop is there, and Bias
gets thrown out. I don't know

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what he's doing. I don't know
why he's doing it. It's believed that

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he is a smart bass runner and
guys are gonna make mistakes, understood,

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not those types of mistakes. Just
can't do it. Say it like it

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is. It's a stupid baseball play, and it takes your team right out

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of it. No, not the
wind out of the sales, bull crap.

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I'm talking about taking your team out
of it. You go from one

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out and a man on second base
to one out a man on first base

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because it's a fielder's choice. Green
strikes out, and then a bid news

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the grounds out to third foebishly,
weakly, horrid Cleveland gets the chance,

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and what do they do. Loriano's
at second base. They sacrifice him,

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lay down the bunt, fun mentals
execution. He gets to third, and

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then Rokio singles to center. Even
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If he gets to get the ball
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in all likelihood he's scoring. There's
your walk off. It's flipping ridiculous.

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Man. Games like this, we
don't think a lot of times they matter

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because it's early May bull roar it
does. Eventually they're going to matter.

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And now look at your situation.
We're creeping up every day, I tell

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you this, we are creeping up
thirty seven games deep almost at the quarter

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eight thirty five. Really looking forward
to that to talk a little baseball,

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and specifically Tigers, who lost yesterday
in ten innings five to four to Cleveland.

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I said just before the break,
this is getting We're getting close.

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We're getting close to that quarter pole. So many things can change in baseball.

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It can be a challenging topic to
talk baseball in sports radio because so

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many things are different. Game to
game. First game of the series didn't

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score any runs. We were on
these airwaves complaining about it. Game two,

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Detroit opens up a can and scores
eleven times. We were slightly concerned

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with kent to my ETA. Let
me take that back. More than slightly

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concerned, very concerned in seven starts, but they won. This morning,

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we're talking about a loss and the
mental part of the game where guys are

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just not doing what they're supposed to
be doing. So again, don't want

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to be super negative. Hate it. You're driving to work, you've had

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a busy night the night before,
Perhaps you get a lot of stuff going

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on in your life. You really
need somebody bitching and moaning about a baseball

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game. Probably not. I'm just
bringing up things that matter down the stretch.

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At least I'm trying to. And
I think if you watched, listened,

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or read about you understand that those
types of games, especially in the

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Division, though it's just thirty seven
games deep, do matter. Doesn't mean

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they can't turn it around. But
when you have baseball on a night tonight

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basis, you're going to break it
down once in a while. Okay,

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So thoughts on the Tigers and the
frustration a little bit from last night or

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yesterday is there on the Meyer hotline
for eight six six eight three eight forty

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eight forty three. I liken it
to this, It's a little like guarding

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the inbound play in basketball. Do
you guard the inbound play on the final

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play Duke Kentucky way back in the
day when Christian Lightner made his famous shot.

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Well, I called Michigan basketball.
Do you guard Ben Brust who launched

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from mid court for Wisconsin and beat
Michigan on a prayer? It's a philosophy,

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Okay, do you believe in it? I don't know. It's the

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same thing in extra innings? Do
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So many people love that. This
is kind of a kind of a cliche,

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but so many people love what they
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I don't think you marry one philosophy. I don't think you just say,

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you know what, let's just we're
gonna play small ball. That's what we're

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gonna do every chance we get.
I think it depends on the situation and

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this situation, and he has been
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Hinch doesn't believe you do that.
When you're the road team, you

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try to dictate what the other team
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I'm sure depending on the person in
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pass, but for the most part, if he's the road team, he's

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not playing for the one run,
he's going to play for a bigger inning.

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It's hard to argue with that.
He really is a He's a fascinating,

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borderline brilliant baseball guy. And I
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you sit down, you get a
chance to talk to him. I've been

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fortunate enough sit down talk to him, not just in his office but in

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other settings, just about his philosophy
in baseball, what makes certain situations more

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important than others, how far ahead
he's looking in games, all those things.

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I'm sure you guys know this,
but you know when offensive coordinators are

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in a game, they're not looking
at Okay, here's it's third down and

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three, this is what I'm going
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They've already decided because they have thought
so many plays ahead. It's the

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same thing in baseball. You're not
managing inning by inning. You're looking ahead

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constantly. It really is like a
game of chess. You're trying your best

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to set up the opposition. Sometimes
it works and sometimes it doesn't. But

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I liken it to that. I
think it's very similar basketball. There's a

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lot of people who swear by it. You've got to guard the inbound pass,

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make them have it difficult. Guyle
on the baseline. Guile on the

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sideline doesn't matter. Make it difficult
for the guy doing the inbounding. Some

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people truly believe in that. Others
are like, no, give yourself a

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chance to have an extra defender out
there. Well, in baseball, some

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people will play for that one run
when they're at home, and some people

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will want to play for the beginning. It's a strategy. You may not

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always agree with it. That's fine, you're not. I can agree with

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a lot of stuff. You don't
agree with a lot of managers when they

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bring in a reliever, how long
they leave a starter in, why a

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guy may be batting in a certain
spot in the lineup. Totally get it.

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How do you feel about this philosophy? Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight

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three eight forty eight forty three.
What you like, what you don't like?

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Okay, there you go. That's
what's going on. And by the

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way, if you're Cleveland and you're
a top the division at twenty four thirteen

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and you're second in the division in
run differential, I think that's a really

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important statistic. Kansas City is number
one, believe it or not, Kansas

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City is a plus forty six in
run differential this year. Last year they

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were a minus one eighty three.
Let me say that again. This year

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Kansas City is number one in the
AL Central, not the best division in

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baseball, but still they are number
one in the AL Central in run differential

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at a plus forty six. Last
year they were a minus one eighty three.

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Talk about a turnaround. Amazing so
far, so far. That wasn't

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worse in the division. By the
way, Chicago is even worse than that.

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Full number is eight six six eight
three, eight forty eight forty three.

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You saw the mistakes, you know, too many mistakes, you know,

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pick a side of the ball,
and and we didn't do enough to

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win the game. So yeah,
this one got away because I think we

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put ourselves in a really tough spot
to win the game. It's more about

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the eighth inning cheap run. You
know, we gave them, you know,

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a full trip around the basis,
so that counts the the lack of

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attack on I mean we did.
We made many mistakes. That's that's the

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point. A J. Hinch following
the game yesterday in a five to four

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loss in ten innings, his frustration
mounting in For good reason. He's referring

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to the eighth inning. Joey Wentz
on the mound for Detroit, Brian Rochio

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singles to center On a strikeout.
Rochio is still second. Jake Rogers throws

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one into center field, first throwing
era of the year for Rogers. Rochio

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moves to third, and then a
ground out to second allows Rochio to score

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that gets him to within four to
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the home run by Fry, and
then in the tenth it's their ability to

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move the runner from second to third
and then get him home with a single

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to win it. You're up four
to two. And then that in a

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three inning stretch, eighth, ninth, tenth, ruins your day, ruins

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your series, and to a certain
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So Detroit barely above five hundred.
Pitching for the most part there, right,

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I would agree, pitching for the
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really good, really good. And
then this just ridiculous margin for error.

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How many teams have that? What's
the margin for error for certain teams?

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For a team like Detroit, the
margin for error is thinner than a margin

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for air. For Baltimore, it's
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then it would be against a team
like Philadelphia or Atlanta, or the Dodgers

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or apparently Cleveland. You can say
what you want about Cleveland, here's what

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you cannot deny. Traditionally, under
Terry Francona, and now it sure seems

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like under Stephen Vote they are a
team that is fundamentally sound. What's the

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cliche, you don't beat yourself.
The Tigers have a tendency to do that.

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They beat themselves throwing air, misplaced
pitch. It was outer half,

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allowing a player to extend his arms, home run down the right field line,

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base running air, the home run
happens. Pitchers are gonna give up

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home runs, and Craig Kimbrel is
it now but was considered it is prime

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the best reliever in baseball. One
could argue he's a Hall of Famer,

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and then he's one of the best
closers of all time. Not the best,

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but one of the best. Okay, last two times out he's given

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up big bombs. He did yesterday
against Washington, So those are going to

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happen. I think you and I
get that. I mean, that's what

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baseball is, smashing home runs left
and right. I mean, all you

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got to do is watch some clips
of games around the league. Go to

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quick Pitch on MLB Network and you'll
see home run after home run after home

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run. I mean, yesterday,
to Askar Hernandez, a couple of them

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for the Dodgers. But the margin
for error for Detroit is is not very

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big. It's tough for it's tough
for this team to overcome deficits, large

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deficits because of their inconsistent offense.
I've told you this for a while now.

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It's not a team that is spectacular
defensively. They don't have anybody like

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Hapier Bias makes a spectacular play or
two or three, and he really does,

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but I don't. He's not a
gold glove shortstop. They don't have

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a gold glove out player on this
team. Find me one. So their

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offense is a little bit of a
you know, up and down. Not

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even their offense is challenged. Their
defenses, okay, doesn't jump out of

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It doesn't make you want to jump
out of your seat and go, yeah,

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okay, we got you now headed
to anybody, No, that's not

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how you feel about this team.
I guess what I'm saying is this outside

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of pitching, and pitching is going
to come and go sometimes. I know

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offense will do the same, but
I mean from a pitching standpoint what I

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mean by coming go Sometimes you can't
expect Terrek Skouble to make thirty two starts

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and be fantastic all thirty two.
It's just not it's not realistic. It's

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it's just not gonna happen. I
expect, you know, Kent Tamaida to

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be better than he's been so far. But overall, would you say you're

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good with their pitching? Okay?
Good? I would hope so hard to

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deny what what resourceon did yesterday?
Look even the greatest seasons of all time

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was Steve Carlton's nineteen seventy two season. Are you aware then? You're a

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young guy. I know that,
But are you aware of that situation?

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Carlton? Okay, no, okay, let me just give you a quick

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thing. Philadelphia Phillies won fifty nine
games in nineteen seventy two. Fifty nine.

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They were horrible. Steve Carlton won
twenty seven of those games. One

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guy earned the win in twenty seven
of their fifty nine games. How do

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you like that? Twenty seven forty
six percent of the wins went to one

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man. He was the cy Young
Award winner that year. He led the

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league in wins. The cy Young
Award winner came from a team that won

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fifty nine games, led the league
in wins, He led the league in

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era. He led the league and
starts with forty one You don't see that

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anymore. He led the league in
complete games with thirty. You'll never see

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that anymore. That was a career
high for him. By the way,

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he led the league in innings pitched
he threw for He threw three hundred and

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forty six innings. Ben, That
doesn't happen anymore. I know a lot

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of people don't like quote end quote
old guy. But sometimes old guy is

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right. Sometimes old guy goes,
you know what back in my day.

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Sometimes old guy says, all I
want is this something similar to this?

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Last year, Logan Webb led the
majors in innings pitched. Ben, guess

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how many innings pitched Logan Webb of
the San Francisco Giants threw led the league.

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Take a gander. I have no
idea two hundred and sixteen, Holy

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cow, Okay, all right,
Steve Carlton three hundred and forty six.

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Yeah, that's a crazy difference.
So he led the league in that category.

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He also led the league in strikeouts. That's incredible stuff, absolutely incredible.

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But he lost ten games. It's
gonna happen. Can't expect him to

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be perfect in forty one games.
He still lost ten or forty one starts,

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they should say. So he still
lost a quart of his games,

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maybe not all his fault, but
you can't expect You cannot expect a pitcher

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to be great every start. It's
just not realistic. So Steve Carlton,

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you know I use that example obviously. I'll give you an example of that

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season. Even though he was the
best in base play, he still gave

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up four and runs in its fourth
start that year. You gave up fore

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and runs in his ninth and tenth
starts as well. Fell apart June ninth

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against the Mets. Complete game,
gotta win, but gave up four and

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runs and six walks. They actually, back then, they actually used to

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let pitchers throw through it get out
of it on their own. So I

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would say, the pitching you'd be
pleased with, and you feel like you

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can use that to contend in a
game. But the offense, the defense,

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the base running all right now doesn't
mean it can't change right now less

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than is that a fair assessment from
what I've gathered? Yes. Now,

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Remember I'm the same person who said
I expect this team to win the division.

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That's the expectation I have. I
believe this team should be good enough

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to win it all the division,
not the World Series, and not the

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American Leegupennant, but they should win
the division. NBA news yesterday, did

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you watch this? New York beats
Indiana one thirty to one, twenty one?

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Really good game. Jaylen Brunson was
hurt, missed the entire second quarter,

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still scored twenty nine points in thirty
two minutes. Og Ananobi had a

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career playoff eight, missed most of
the fourth quarter, and yet New York

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still won. Not a big Knicks
fan, but damn they're fun to watch.

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Jalen Brunson just you're going, holy
crap, how are you making some

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of these shots? It's an entertaining
It really is an entertaining series so far.

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And I know it's only two games, but a ton of credit for

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a team to lose really important players
not once but twice in the game and

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get it done now. Rick Carlisle's
not happy, and I understand why he's

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telling people, we just want a
fair shot the referees. But New York

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right now, right now, being
led by a second round pick Jalen Brunson

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and a guy taking twenty third overall
og Onanobi out of Indiana late in the

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first round. Pretty cool story.
Same draft as Donovan Mitchell. By the

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way, dude's really athletic, which
also means what yes, same draft as

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Lukenart Nikola Jokic wins the MVP.
I think it was. I don't know

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if it was yesterday or two days
ago. I thought Doncis was gonna win

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it because people get so enamored with
scoring. I'm really glad Jokic won it.

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I would have liked to have seen
Shay Gilgess Alexander, quite honestly,

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because yeah, you're looking for some
fresh blood. But if a guy earns

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it, he earns it, it's
interesting. He's the MVP. Who do

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you think the best player in the
game is? Do you think it's one

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and the same. How do you
deny that right? I think you can

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make some arguments. Love watching Anthony
Edwards play Shay Gildas Alexander is really fun

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to watch too, and both those
guys actually play defense, as does Jokic.

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In fairness, he garnered seventy nine
first place votes, shake Gildess Alexander

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garnered fifteen. That's how much people
thought of it. Doncis finished third.

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Janis Ante Tecompo, who went healthy
still might be the best player in the

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world. He's fourth, Brunson fifth. Jokic is the first center in sixty

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years to win an MVP Award three
times in a four year span. He's

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also, you know, the last
one to do it was Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

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He's also the ninth player to ever
win at least three MVPs. Right

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now, if you're driving around Flint, Cadillac, Grand Rapids, Grayland,

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Gaylord, Midland, Saginaw Bay City, Pataski, Charlevoid, Trevors City,

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wherever is your mind scramble a little
bit, a little bit, and you're

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saying some names out loud. Yeah, that's what I'd be doing too.

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So you know Jabbar because he's got
more than anybody. He's got six Mikey,

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Bill Russell, Lebron, James Wilt
Chamberlain, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson,

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who's the last one. This might
be the tougher one, Moses Malone.

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Those are the other eight players that
Nikola Jokic joined. When you're in

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that category, when you're with those
names, that's when people I hate when

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we in the media put the proverbial
cart before the horse, way too early,

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right, the NFL Draft just finishes
up. Let's look at next year's

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NFL draft. Well, can we
just enjoy this one first? You know,

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national champion is crowned the next day, who's the odds on favorite to

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win it next year? Can we
just enjoy what this previous team just did.

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I get the twenty four hour news
cycle and the twenty four hour sports

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cycle, but can't you let it
rest for a little bit anyway, I'm

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gonna I'm gonna do that right here
when you're in that realm, Dude,

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that is that's Hall of Fame stuff. Long way for him to retire,

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let alone get in the Hall of
Fame. But you gotta be at least

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willing to acknowledge he's in amongst Hall
of Fame players. When you're doing that,

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that's impressive, really impressive. He
finished top five in points, rebounds,

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and assists in multiple years. That's
see, he doesn't he doesn't fit

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the narrative. He looks looks now
because we're not playing against him. He

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looks kind of awkward playing it,
doesn't he I was going to say gumpy,

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and that's not fair. He's he's
an amazing player. But when you

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finish top five in total points.
He was fifth this year top five and

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rebounds that's third this year top five
and a This is second in multiple seasons.

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The only other player to do that
more than once is elgim Baylor again

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Hall of Famer. Really good stuff. Meyer hotline is eighty six to six,

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twenty one thousand. Jason Beck's going
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