Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't fill out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. 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. But 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 dogs.
Were not at the time. Why you're not a day? 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 gonna break it down for
you. He sucks. We sucked, but we laid an egg. That's
all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break
it down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us.
We have to figure it out and we will. It's your dad, Yes
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we've talked about the Lions and how much you are scared of the Packers.
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Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Freddy, who leads off the
eight o'clock hour here on x'es and bros. Good morning, Dennis, i'd
be fathers did to you a great way. Hey, same to you,
Freddie. 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 got
a kick out of you got a tweet Earlier today, somebody said that Jordan
Love is overrated. Yeah, you know, Lions fans creckt me. Lions
fans crack 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 Love is not overrated, man, That team
is, That team is peaking, and that that division can be had by
Green Bay 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 get to the ZAR thing, something I've been hearing the last
two weeks is driving me up the wall. Uh, the Lions need to
get a number three wide receiver. They they can cemeentter 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 runner back. I'm gonna throw all the name, but I know side
you can't get him. But what would be so wrong if the team got
Derrick Henry as you third running back. I mean, this team has got
a better chance of running the bout thirty times and winning games keeping that defense
off the field than 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. He say, oh,
well, but I think people feel pretty good about where golf is at
if he gets to 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 right in the ball is going to help that defense right
now in the clock. And yeah, and I and I and I and
I've said this kind of before and I'm not wishing for it, but you
got to keep an eye on Emier 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 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 bumball and
you just hope it doesn't stick with that kid mentally, because you just never
know, especially if he calls one up early and I don't. And I'm
not wishing for that, but 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
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 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 that's what I miss.
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 don't
can't do the math right now, but I would Obviously I would not shorten
one sixty two. You got to keep one hundred and sixty two games.
But I would play a doubleheader every Saturday. Okay, first of all,
the families can get out and 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 doubleheader 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 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 the 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
playoffs. And I think it'd be I think it's all about the fan.
I think this is all would be about, all about helping the fan.
That's what I would do if I was a commissioner base Well, 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 game. So you're talking about it on a Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon,
allowing the Triple A team then to play afterwards at Co America or or
or before you know, or before 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 us. 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 U
or Toledo. And I think 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 tech 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 of the fan now and every
everything, and and I just think that we need to start looking back at
the fan. And I know my phone's gonna come a cutout right now,
coming in the band zone. But that's what that's that's what I would do
is is shortened baseball and bring 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, you're the
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Radio to twenty one thousand now tzar 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 Coomerica. 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 Comerica. 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 the 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 everybody's 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 in 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 schedule and if you start
ten games out on the road and you come back, I know, sometimes
it can be seventy degrees and then it could, you know, but you
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 is it so small of a park that even drawn
three four thousand for a fifty degree game at Comerica, Is, you know,
is better than what you could have and 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 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, Tropicicana 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 as
a sports are now. Freddie said, played all doubleheaders 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?
And 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 going to 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 straight short in the season where
they you know, they just played forty games and 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. 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 czar I was thinking about. You know, in
football, they actually they are changing things up. You know, they've got
a rule in it. 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 highbred 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 and then come back and continue taking
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falls into the category which is looking and 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 or 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 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 is 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 kid, 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 going to be that bullet's
gonna becoming a lot faster at you. And then that's it a little funny,
you know, they 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 uh, 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 like,
you know, look what's up there. You know that's I don't know,
but 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 screen tournament and he came out on the first tee and there
was nothing about uh, you know, swinging it like a baseball club.
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, what kind of stup it isn't boom it would be swinging out there,
and I hit a couple that were just you know, the 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 do 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 You have this incredible
if we're talking about the Big Ten, incredible Big Ten. Now where you
are going to play without the Division 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 him 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, Oh, what the
call 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, irre 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. Uh, 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 under 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 games, the color analyst, and you
have guys that are calling the games that have done it for years or sort
of experts. When they take a look at these things, they've seen them,
a million of them, and saying with the with the actual color analysts
who have played the game, those guys, and then and then even in
an 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 in 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. But and even going back to Michael Jordan,
that was the 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 it. 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 reft. That's not good.
I think a plea to the players that 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 Doncic,
so I enjoy watching playing that, but with every call, I think,
you know, I'm just going to rude 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 complained 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? I
follows the sports are Adam Silbers, 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 McVay 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 when were doing it today talking about,
oh, I can't wait for the and if a 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. What 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, he 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 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
redio said that guy can't act like that all the time, or he can't
act like 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.
He's a 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 he walked ahead of a good day and
I was like, okay. I was like, yeah, Killer, that's
the man when it comes down to exhibition games. So that's a nod to
Killer. I want to thank ben Zos producing great job today. Ben Thank
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