WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.520 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.240 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football fun everybody. I think that 6 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.640 at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.679 great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care if 11 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.680 you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:15.200 telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the Natas. We'll 13 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:21.120 come out of Tuesday EXUS and Bros. Across the state of Michigan, Tigers 14 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.079 are going to host the Nationals to start a three game series of America Park 15 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:29.560 Tonight. It's going to be Mitchell Parker for Washington, who exactly Mitchell Parker 16 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:34.920 against Kent Tomayta then Jake Gervin throws against rhese Olsen, Mackenzie Gore throws against 17 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:42.040 Casey Mys that's your setup for the series against Washington. Reading yesterday, a 18 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:49.480 lot of a lot of comments, a lot of columns, a lot of 19 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:57.359 games stories or team stories. Huge belief. This team is still in the 20 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.840 thick of it for a wild card spot. It is something we have to 21 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:10.919 acknowledge at this time of the year. You begin to look at playoff races. 22 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:17.080 When you are sixty five games deep, you have to start looking, 23 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:27.800 Okay, which team could use this type of format or improve upon it and 24 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:34.120 move forward? Where are they in terms of a wild card spot? For 25 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.800 example, because Detroit's ten and a half back in the division. I'm not 26 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:44.280 saying give up on them in the Al Central, but immediately, if you're 27 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.120 going to look at standings, and I don't think it's too early to do 28 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:51.159 that at all. If you're going to look at standings, then what you 29 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.199 at least have to do is acknowledge there is a wild card standing worth noting 30 00:02:55.240 --> 00:03:00.000 as well. Right, Okay, so the Tigers are in that situation and 31 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:07.000 they're only two and a half back, where are you looking? Are you 32 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.719 looking at the overall record, thirty two up, thirty three down. Are 33 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.680 you looking at the ten and a half they are back of Cleveland in the 34 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:20.120 division? Are you looking at two and a half back in the wild card 35 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:25.560 spot. There's not a right or wrong answer there. I'm just wondering where 36 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:32.520 your focus is. For me, I think it's fair to look at all. 37 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.000 Don't get me wrong. I continue to compare this team to the other 38 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:47.719 teams who I have starting to acknowledge how good they are. New York and 39 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:53.400 Kansas City played last night Kansas City. Kansas City the most home wins of 40 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.199 any team in baseball or in the American League anyway, with twenty four. 41 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:08.000 Because Pladelphi's got twenty seven home wins. New York has more roadkills than any 42 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:13.400 team in baseball. So I was kind of fascinated by that one. And 43 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.759 in case you missed it, the Yankees beat the Royals four to two in 44 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:23.839 what turned out to be a pretty damn good game. They jumped out to 45 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.759 a four to nothing lead and then Kansas City stage to come back. Bobby 46 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.680 Witt was in the middle of it. Again. I wonder how many people 47 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.759 are considering him as an MVP candidate. But anyway, those are the things 48 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.079 that I'm looking at. I watched Baltimore play, I watched New York play. 49 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.360 I watch Cleveland and Kansas City play, and I will admit I do 50 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.560 enjoy watching the Royals. I think it's more because of Bobby Wit. I 51 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:57.079 like Vinnie Pascantino, but there's something about Kansas City that makes me go okay, 52 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.720 they kind of moved my needle a little bit. Do I think Seattle's 53 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.800 the best team in the West. I mean, look to their credit, 54 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:11.439 they're five and a half up on Texas, who has sputtered Seattle with a 55 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:16.160 dramatic win yesterday against the White Sox, cal Raley with a home run, 56 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:24.160 a grand slam home run to end it. I watched Philadelphia at Landa. 57 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.560 I'm a little surprised at we all saw Milwaukee. I don't watch the teams 58 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.519 out west quite as much, the Dodgers, for example. I did see 59 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.680 San Francisco with a walk off win, Austin Slater with a game winning double 60 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:42.079 to finish things off. But that's kind of where I'm at. I'm not 61 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.959 looking at the standings as much as I'm looking at the style and how they 62 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:55.360 play and I'm just not seeing it. You and I had conversations during the 63 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:02.120 NBA season and then the season ended and we would watch the teams in the 64 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:08.360 playoffs. We did the same thing with the NHL, and you don't have 65 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.439 to compare the Red Wings to the Oilers or the Panthers. You don't have 66 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.800 to compare the Pistons to the Celtics or the Mavericks, but you can compare 67 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:24.199 them to some of the other playoff teams Indiana, for example, and we 68 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:32.600 all recognized just how far away those teams are. I have the same feeling 69 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:40.480 with Detroit when it comes to Major League Baseball. Am I hopeful they make 70 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:44.319 the playoffs. Absolutely, be great for the city. It'd be great for 71 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.480 the state. It'd be great for the organization, be great for the fan 72 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:53.319 base. Fan base deserves it. Man can't be selfish at a time like 73 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:58.399 this. Do what's best for the fans. I want what's best for Detroit 74 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:04.120 Tigers fans. But I'm not going to get caught up in a little bit 75 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.639 of false hope either. As of right now, and that's important to stress. 76 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:15.439 As of right now, on this June eleventh, they pale in comparison 77 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:24.079 to the teams that are vying for division titles. You can look at Boston 78 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.160 too, because Boston's ahead of them in the stands. I don't think Boston's 79 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:34.199 all that great now when you look at Boston. I mean, I don't 80 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:40.040 know if you saw what Alex Verdugo said. Yankees and Red Sox will soon 81 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.959 meet for the first time during the season, and you know what that means. 82 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.920 It means every national television outlet is going to carry the Red Sox and 83 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:56.120 the Yankees because of the greatest rivalry in the sport, which is a topic 84 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:01.360 for another day, because there's just not many that those rivalries any longer, 85 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:07.600 so maybe we should embrace it. But Verdugo was asked about the Red Sox 86 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:15.560 and he was pretty blatant with it. He said, you know, I 87 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.959 loved that organization, loved warning the Red Sox Jersey, loved playing for my 88 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:28.639 teammates. It was more of just wanting to be in a winning atmosphere when 89 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.320 we wanted twenty one. That was one of the most fun years of my 90 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.279 life. And it's because we had a winning team. Well right when he 91 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.480 was always much more enjoyable, right, of course, he said, we 92 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:45.240 went to the Alcs. When you're winning in Boston, those fans and everything, 93 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.559 it feels special out there. Twenty twenty one was my favorite year. 94 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:54.000 The other years were good, but it just felt like we were fighting a 95 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.840 little bit. We didn't have the pieces that we needed. Not to get 96 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.840 them at the trade deadline was a little bit tougher too. I think they 97 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.799 were trying to play the long game. This is the part of the quote 98 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.600 that had me thinking a little bit. I think they were trying to play 99 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.879 the long game or reamp the minor leagues to get some new prospects in. 100 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.200 It would have been nice to see a little bit more initiative when I was 101 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:31.000 there, just to try and force winning. I wonder how many players or 102 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:39.039 fans feel that way about the Tigers. Are they trying to play the long 103 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:46.519 game? Wouldn't it be nicer to see more initiative and try to force winning. 104 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.120 Take your phone calls on the Meyer hotline eight six six eight three eight 105 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.720 forty eight forty three. You can text the program sports Radio to twenty one 106 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:01.240 thousand. Just getting started on a Tuesday eleven on Exies and Bros. Huge 107 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.440 cheer from my good friend Matt Golden. 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I just call it talking with friends about anything that's on your mind. 142 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:03.159 In the world sports, maybe it's the Stanley Cup Finals from last night. 143 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:09.120 Panthers beat the Oilers for one game two Evan Rodriguez with a pair of 144 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:11.879 goals. Florida has won five straight in the playoffs. They're up two games 145 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.799 to none. Did you watch any of that? By chance? I watched 146 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.399 CBC as much as I possibly can. I just think it's a better broadcast. 147 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:26.200 I really enjoy it. But I did, and I think there are 148 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:33.559 there are certain TV analysts and personalities who get overexposed. You can do too 149 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:39.399 much sometimes. Case in point I think is Steven A. Smith. Okay, 150 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:43.559 ESPN should probably just say, you know what, it's good to have 151 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.639 him doing these and this, but he doesn't have to be on every single 152 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.639 show. So when you got a show, and you got a podcast, 153 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.120 and then you've got this in live and then you've got NBA, people are 154 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.759 like, Okay, enough is enough. I'm tired of the angry personality. 155 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:05.159 Right. Charles Barkley at times borders on that. But people like him so 156 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:11.360 much. Even though there's times, especially during college basketball, where you listen 157 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.879 to him and you're like, you have no idea what you're talking about. 158 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:18.240 You don't even know these teams. He's one of the few, if not 159 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.320 only guy or as an analyst, you're out there going I'm not sure that's 160 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:30.279 right, but I'm going to listen to him. He jumped by the ESPN 161 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:37.759 broadcast yesterday during the Stanley Cup Finals. Did you see this at all, 162 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.320 Ben, I'm not sure if you did, but no, he was okay. 163 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:48.120 He was there for one of the intermissions and he popped on set and 164 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.360 he was talking to Mark Messier because it was Mark Messier, Steve Levy and 165 00:14:52.919 --> 00:15:01.279 PK Suban and Barkley comes in and it it was really funny because Messier was 166 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:07.960 sitting courtside at a game in Canada in Toronto when Barkley was playing, and 167 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.840 Barkley had mentioned this, so he said, this is a true story. 168 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:16.279 He said, I said to the ref, I need to go talk to 169 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.679 the great Mark Messier. First of all, Barkley just knowing who Messia is 170 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:28.080 is pretty cool. Second of all, knowing Barkley understands how great Mark Messier 171 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.360 was is even more impressive. So Barkley says this to the referee, according 172 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:37.720 to his story, and why shouldn't we believe it. The ref said, 173 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:45.039 Chuck, you're going to get a delay a game penalty, and Barkley said, 174 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:50.200 I don't care. It's the first time that I'd been around him in 175 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:58.720 my entire life, and he was sitting in the front row. So I 176 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:04.759 said, I'll take the farm. So then he looks at Messier. He 177 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:11.200 says, hey, you owe me five thousand dollars because that's what it costs 178 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.960 for the technical foul, and Messi said, we'll settle it on the golf 179 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.159 course. It was a I thought it was a really lighthearted, really good 180 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:25.360 moment, and an enjoyable one too. That's what he can bring to whether 181 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:33.600 it be a spontaneous stop by or whether it's a you know, on camera 182 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.960 situation where he's breaking things down. He's just got that type of personality, 183 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.799 I want to share that with you in case you missed it. It was 184 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:45.840 a good story I thought from last night. So Florida a winner last night. 185 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:51.519 For one, they look really good, they look really strong. They 186 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.120 don't look over a match by any stretch. And the reason I say that 187 00:16:55.240 --> 00:17:00.320 is because Edmonton is such a good skating team and yet Florida has been there 188 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.480 right there with them. So the scene now shifts to Edmonton and it's going 189 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:11.400 to be absolutely crazy there. Speaking of hockey, former Red Wings assistant GM 190 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:17.359 now the current GM of the Dallas Stars, Jim Nill was named NHL GM 191 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:23.119 of the Year. There's only one man who's won this award twice, Lou 192 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:30.359 Lamarillo, and he won it back to back years with the New Jersey Devils, 193 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.440 which is impressive to be able to put together a team and win those 194 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:45.079 types of people over Jim Gregory. General Manager of the Year award is what 195 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:49.160 it's called. So Don Maloney has won it, Mike Gillis, Doug Armstrong, 196 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:56.279 Ray Schiro Pittsburgh, Bob Murray. No Red Wings general manager has ever 197 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.880 won it. Steve Eisman did but back in twenty fifteen with Tampa, and 198 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.200 I just I misspoke, I said Lou Lamarilla with New Jersey. It was 199 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:08.720 with the Islanders when he went over there in twenty and twenty one. Impressive 200 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.960 stuff. So congrats to Jim Nil who did a wonderful job in Detroit and 201 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:21.279 has done an even better job in Dallas. Considered by many, obviously because 202 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:23.119 of this award, but even before the award, whether he won it or 203 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:29.039 not, among the best general managers in all of hockey. Dan Hurley spurns 204 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.960 the Lakers offer of a six year, seventy million dollar deal. He says, 205 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.759 no to LA and we'll stay at Yukon. He said he was humbled 206 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.359 by the experience, but proud of the championship culture he's built, or they've 207 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:48.799 built at Yukon. He's sixty eight and eleven the last two years. If 208 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:52.880 they win another championship this year, it would be three in a row and 209 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.519 they'd be the first team since who U see LA, when UCLA won seventh 210 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:04.279 straight under ji On Wooden from what was that nineteen sixty seven through nineteen seventy 211 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:08.759 three. Here's the surprising thing. So the Lakers now have to regroup. 212 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:17.119 I mean, is this embarrassing for the Lakers when a college coach says thanks, 213 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.839 but no thanks to a reported six years seventy million dollars. Is this 214 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.680 embarrassing? I don't know if it's embarrassing as much as it is humbling. 215 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:34.960 It's like, Wow, we're supposed to be one of the elites where people 216 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.279 look at our organization and say, I want to be part of that. 217 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:48.240 And you've been turned down now recently by three times by three different guys. 218 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:53.279 Tyron Lou turned you down. He's now with the Clippers, Monty Williams turned 219 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:59.160 you down because he went to Phoenix, and now obviously with Detroit, and 220 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:04.880 now Danny Hurley turns you down that we know of. So now what do 221 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:11.119 you do? You look back and you say, whoever we're going to get 222 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:19.079 now is obviously our second choice or maybe third. Who knows how much does 223 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:30.200 that? What type of look does that project to people? Does it make 224 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:37.319 you go maybe the Lakers aren't all that anymore? Is there a reflection on 225 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:42.559 Lebron, James, Rob Polinka, Jenny Buss? Who is it? We'll 226 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.880 get your thoughts on that as we move forward, But when we come back. 227 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.440 They talked a little bit about this yesterday afternoon of the huge show, 228 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.359 and I'm going to disagree with a few things, and that's a good thing. 229 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:02.759 But New York Times has a Major League Baseball player poll some overrated, 230 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:07.400 so underrated. We'll get to that and where Detroit lies, if at all, 231 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.839 in any of it. That's coming up next on Exis and Bros. 232 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:15.759 Throughout the great state of Michigan. 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Sunday, tu 239 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:57.519 twenty third, Miley Crew and Friday August ninety Loved Live, don't miss Leonard 240 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:03.759 skinnerd and zz Top all part of the Soaring Eagles Summer Outdoor Concert Series. 241 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:08.000 Tickets for all shows on ZELM now at the Fox Office and Ethics dot com. 242 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:26.640 Check the entire lineup at Soaring Eagle Casino dot com. Who do you 243 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:32.839 think the best baseball player is? Who do you think is the most overrated? 244 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:45.559 If you could play anywhere, based on location, ballpark management, chances 245 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.160 of winning, all the things that matter most of you, where would you 246 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:55.440 go? Those are some of the things asked of Major League Baseball players by 247 00:22:55.480 --> 00:23:04.039 the Athletic. It's called the MLB Player Poll. Who's considered the worst organization? 248 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:12.240 And where are some of the Tigers involved in all this? I don't 249 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:18.799 think it's too surprising when you look at this pole and I'm going to go 250 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:22.000 over it a little bit, because not everybody subscribes to the Athletic, and 251 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:30.039 that's fine. But when you look at this poll, you recognize certain things 252 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:37.039 that you believe are almost I don't want to say MLB propaganda, but the 253 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:52.119 typical MLB answers involving players and or organizations. It continues to be the same 254 00:23:52.720 --> 00:24:00.240 year after year after year, and at some point those of us, and 255 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:03.559 I include myself, by the way, this is primarily at me, those 256 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:08.200 of us who believed in the past that this is all just because it's a 257 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:14.559 large market. This is all because television gives them this. This is all 258 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:26.240 because they spend more money. Yeah, and this is the reason they are 259 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:33.000 in the position they're in. This is why teams are getting the recognition. 260 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:41.720 Players want to play for them. I used to be the guy who said, 261 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.920 you know what, screw you. I don't care how big your stadium 262 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:48.559 is. I don't care how big your city is. I don't care. 263 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:55.759 It's where it's located. People would want to come here because dot dot dot 264 00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:06.480 good people, great Sportstown, they love their summers. They'll support you even 265 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:14.279 though you're not a winner. All the right. Pollyannish answers to those questions 266 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:23.720 and flat out wrong. Players don't care about that, at least not based 267 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:30.079 on these surveys. So I had heard yesterday afternoon they were talking about how 268 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.720 Detroit is the second nicest city in the Midwest, probably to Chicago. It's 269 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:42.160 like, wait a minute, how many cities have you been to anyway? 270 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:49.519 And even if that's true, because there's a lot of nice cities in the 271 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:53.480 Midwest now, like Indianapolis is cool, doesn't have a major League baseball team, 272 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.720 but it's cool. Saint Louis is cool. You ever been to Saint 273 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:06.920 Louis. If you're a baseball player, have you been to Saint Louis and 274 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:12.160 recognized the rich history that they have and the passion they have for their baseball 275 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:26.160 team. Have you been there. It's not even close. We don't do 276 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:33.599 that. We have a baseball game and then we leave. There's no ode 277 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:41.000 to the greatness of Detroit baseball. There's nothing around the ballpark that makes you 278 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:47.160 go, man, they love their baseball. No, there isn't. I've 279 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:56.200 said this at nausea about Michigan, the state of Michigan, and about specifically 280 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:06.119 Detroit sports teams, and directly about the Tigers. We could have been or 281 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:15.920 could do something special to make it bigger than it is, and we don't. 282 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:23.599 And that's not on the fans, but it is on the owners, 283 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:33.160 it is on the city, It is on the the community leaders. I 284 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:44.440 am tired of being that guy, me being that guy who is constantly sticking 285 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:49.599 up for this area when I travel around the country, and then recognizing, 286 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:53.519 God, dang it, man, I'm wrong, sorry, just flat out 287 00:27:53.599 --> 00:28:00.000 wrong. Look at what some of these other Even if you don't you don't 288 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.960 need a Hall of Fame, Okay, you don't need Cincinnati Hall of Fame. 289 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.920 You don't need Saint Louis Hall of Fame. You know, I've almost 290 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:14.640 given up on that because nobody else recognizes it. Either I'm really wrong, 291 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:18.400 or fans don't care as much. Owners sure as hell don't care as much, 292 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.880 or not many people hear what we're talking about. Maybe not enough people 293 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.279 are just are listening to this radio show or listen to what I say. 294 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:33.119 So I have to accept that as a possibility to But go to New York 295 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:38.720 where they have two teams, one primarily with the Yankees, and look at 296 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:45.599 how the Yankees celebrate the Yankees. Look at the pride they take. Honestly, 297 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.519 Okay, I don't like New York. I'm just asking you to be 298 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:56.240 objective. Can you do that? Go to Saint Louis and see how much 299 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:02.720 they embrace there are eleven championships and the greatness of their franchise because it's the 300 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.319 second most titles. Go ahead and go look at that. Look at that. 301 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:12.759 I'm not a big Cubs fan. Go to Chicago and check out how 302 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:21.480 they feel about the Cubs and what they do around their ballpark to celebrate Cubs 303 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:30.000 baseball. Be honest with yourself. Same in Cincinnati, and they haven't been 304 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:36.680 relevant for a long time. Go look at how they embrace their baseball team. 305 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:40.720 So stop with the Detroit's as nice at city as anyplace else. That 306 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:44.160 has nothing to do with it. Man, it has to do with your 307 00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:52.119 passion and your love for baseball and what that city does to celebrate your passion 308 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:57.400 for baseball. And Detroit doesn't do anything outside of Opening Day. They do 309 00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:03.880 nothing. Their owner doesn't do anything. This city doesn't do anything. Tell 310 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.400 me what it does. Don't get me pink out the park, don't give 311 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:14.000 me bark at the park four times a year. I don't care that you're 312 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.880 renovating the stadium to include suites and all this other stuff. I want to 313 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:27.079 know what you do to celebrate your Detroit Tiger's history. Despite walking around the 314 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:34.119 concourse and seeing big posters that looks like an old high school gymnasium, tell 315 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:47.160 me, I'm waiting this whole. Oh, Detroit is so rich with this 316 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:55.160 and that. Really, where's the celebration of their great alumni? Tell me 317 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:00.359 where it is? Oh, because they're going to celebrate the forty year anniversary 318 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.400 of their last championship in nineteen eighty four. They're going to bring some of 319 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:11.720 those guys trotting back. Ah, okay, that's it. That's the bar 320 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:18.920 for you. Way to celebrate a low one good job. What's ever easiest. 321 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:26.720 You've got people in there who aren't even from here, man, trying 322 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:33.839 to tell us what Detroit tradition is. Stop it enough. I don't need 323 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:42.519 an ex soccer guy from the Great Northwest to tell me what Detroit baseball is 324 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:53.799 all about. You don't need it either. Stop towing the company line. 325 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:59.720 Here it is. Who's the best player in baseball? Who do you think 326 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:08.079 of it? Who's number one? According to Major League Baseball polling show Aotani? 327 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:17.920 And it's not even close. Forty six percent of the players who voted 328 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:24.200 in this poll or were asked to participate in this poll, say show, 329 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:30.880 hey Otani. Now you've got thirty teams, and you've got twenty six players 330 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:37.400 on each team. That's seven hundred and eighty players. There's only one hundred 331 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:45.839 and two votes, so this is a seventh of the people participating. That's 332 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:52.240 that's pretty weak. But they rank it Otani, then Ronald Acunya, then 333 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:59.880 Mookie Betts, then Aaron Judge, and then Mike Trout. I get that 334 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:06.680 some of the others who receive some votes. Bryce Harper makes sense. Gunner 335 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.480 Henderson a little surprised by that, even though I like him a lot. 336 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:17.680 Jose Ramirez underrated player, Adley Rushman, Corey Seeger and Zach Wheeler. Wheeler 337 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:22.559 are the only pitcher in that conversation. Otani completely understand same with Lukunya. 338 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:29.200 You know MVPs bets a former MVP judge of former MVP trout a multiple MVP 339 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:37.720 get it all. Have no problem with any of that. Who's the most 340 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:50.319 overrated player in baseball? This is interesting? There is a Tiger mentioned in 341 00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:58.079 this. Only fifty nine votes for this. Again, seven and eighty players 342 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:00.960 in Major League baseball, and it's really more than that because guys get hurt, 343 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:06.440 somebody comes up, you know, things like that. But to start 344 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.599 the year seven hundred and eighty, only fifty nine voted in this question. 345 00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:16.880 Jazz Chisholm of Miami is number one. Anthony wrendon't is number two. I 346 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:23.679 would vote Anthony Wrendone number one, number three. Carlos Correa a little surprising, 347 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:31.159 Tim Anderson, Jack Flaherty the Tigers. Jack Flaherty isn't there. I 348 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:38.800 don't understand that. Why is that pet Alonzo, Cody Bellinger, Alex Bregman, 349 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:46.159 Ellie d la Cruz disagree there, Manny Machado, Blake Snell. I 350 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:55.199 wonder how much has to do with Machado's overall attitude, but I said, 351 00:34:55.559 --> 00:35:00.400 there's a tiger in there, and obviously it's Jack Flaherty. I don't know 352 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.400 exactly when this was taken. Might be a little different if it were taken 353 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:08.480 before this year, you know, going into the season. The name I'm 354 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:16.920 focused on is the active players who received at least one vote, and one 355 00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:24.800 of them is Javier Bias. That shouldn't surprise you. Julio Rodriguez is in 356 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.800 that question. Is in there, Juan Soto, your Don Alvarez, which 357 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:42.079 is odd, very Spencer Streider again really odd. How was he overrated? 358 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:50.599 Anyway? Those are the names solely on vibes, which you know, the 359 00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.440 emotional part of things. Who would you want on your team? Ninety five 360 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:59.920 of the seven hundred and eighty players I'm not saying all received a question. 361 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:07.119 I'm just telling you seven and eighty total are active in Major League Baseball during 362 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.079 the season. Ninety five votes. Who would you want on your team? 363 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:15.480 From a vibe standpoint, the guy who's giving you that good vibe, Mookie 364 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:22.320 Bets number one. Then Otani Akunya Harper, who plays with as much emotion 365 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:31.280 as anybody, Judge Schwarber, Trout, Lance Lynn, Marcus Simeon, good 366 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:38.639 teammate, Willie Adamos, Josel Tuve, and there's a few others. Okay, 367 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:47.960 I get it. There's a few other questions in here that really aren't 368 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:55.639 important. This this is the other thing I wanted to get to. Which 369 00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:02.480 team would you sign with if contracts, state taxes, and rosters were not 370 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:07.480 a factor? So it doesn't matter whether you're ready to win, doesn't matter 371 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.800 the contract you're going to sign, and it doesn't matter about state taxes. 372 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.039 Take it all out. This is based solely on how good your organization is. 373 00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:22.320 I'm going to name the teams, and it's going to be somewhat associated 374 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:29.440 with what I just got done talking about or ranting about. None that you're 375 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:34.400 going to have something says what organizations have bad reputations among players? That's pretty 376 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:42.960 easy. Losing organizations have bad reputations. But which team would you sign with 377 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.679 if contracts, state taxes, and rosters were not a factor? Number one? 378 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:54.079 What do you think it is, it's Atlanta. Boston is number two. 379 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:02.800 You talk about an area that embraces and is passionate about their baseball. 380 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.719 You don't have to like them. There's a huge difference between liking and respecting. 381 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:16.320 Okay, Number three. Another organization that is really big about taking care 382 00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:27.039 of their alumni and doing their teams right. The LA Dodgers. Again, 383 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:37.440 don't have to like them, but players recognize it. Yankees in the conversation, 384 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:45.320 Cubs in the conversation, believe it or not not that they got a 385 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:51.199 ton of votes. The Reds in the conversation, is there any Let me 386 00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:57.239 see how many teams two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, 387 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:07.360 fourteen, sixteen, Eighteen teams were mentioned, eighteen got votes. The 388 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:12.599 Tigers were not one of them. Then you look down here and it says 389 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:24.159 also mentioned, Orioles, Guardians, Brewers, Pirates, Blue Jays, Nationals, 390 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:35.639 Cardinals. Twenty five teams of the thirty were mentioned. The Tigers were 391 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:46.559 not one of them. Twenty five of thirty. How much should that concern 392 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:53.599 you? Players can vote for any team. It didn't matter, doesn't matter, 393 00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:57.000 the contract don't matter, the state tax doesn't matter, the roster, 394 00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:59.599 none of that is a factor. Who do you want to play for? 395 00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:09.760 They're writing down every team ranking teams twenty five were mentioned, Tigers were not. 396 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:19.320 When we come back, what organizations have bad reputations? Are they in 397 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:24.280 this conversation and is it justified? That's coming up next on Exes and Bros. 398 00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:30.360 Across the Great State of Michigan. We're teeing off our tenth year at 399 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:35.760 the Meyer LPGA Classic for simply gives. 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