WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.399 Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back 2 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.640 and Seebee. Don't fill out salaries or other things. Get some facts and 3 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:25.000 come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you 4 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.760 need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats 5 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.399 in here looking in the mirror. But I look good. I got my 6 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:35.320 extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We 7 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.960 don't need no meals, We don't need no cats. We need more dogs. 8 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:44.119 Were not at the time. Why you're not a day? We weren't 9 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.640 good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling 10 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.920 you. We laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for 11 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:53.840 you. He sucks. We sucked, but we laid an egg. That's 12 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:55.960 all I have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break 13 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.880 it down for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. 14 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.439 We have to figure it out and we will. It's your dad, Yes 15 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.560 it is. We get into the eight o'clock hour here on the Michigan Sports 16 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:15.200 Network down it's fitting an end for Matt Shephard on Exes and Bros. Well, 17 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:22.680 we've talked about the Lions and how much you are scared of the Packers. 18 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.200 You can get in on that. We're looking for those father day sayings. 19 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:33.959 And now to talk about putting your sports czar hat on and make a 20 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.840 change in sports, whether it's big or small, your favorite sport, make 21 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:46.359 a change as a sports czar eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty 22 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:52.439 three of the Meyer Hotline. You can text sports twenty one thousand, text 23 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:57.000 Sports Radio all one word to twenty one thousand. We get your feedback in 24 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:07.560 that way. Also via we are taking your feedback as well, and you 25 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.439 can text me at Dennis fifth and where you can hit the xes in Bros, 26 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:17.120 Twitter handle XB Mornings. All of that available for you across Michigan. 27 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.000 Let's go to the phones. Let's go to Freddy, who leads off the 28 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:25.639 eight o'clock hour here on x'es and bros. Good morning, Dennis, i'd 29 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:29.080 be fathers did to you a great way. Hey, same to you, 30 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:35.120 Freddie. Appreciate it, appreciate it. So I'm gonna be all over the 31 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:39.439 board because I got our it's our idea and the Lions and uh I got 32 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:45.560 a kick out of you got a tweet Earlier today, somebody said that Jordan 33 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.240 Love is overrated. Yeah, you know, Lions fans creckt me. Lions 34 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.479 fans crack me up. You know everybody else is overrated. But you know, 35 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:54.960 God forbid you say something about their player. Oh you don't know what 36 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.680 you're talking about. That that Love is not overrated, man, That team 37 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:06.280 is, That team is peaking, and that that division can be had by 38 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.400 Green Bay Detroit the next two or three years between those two teams next two 39 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:15.719 to four years easily. So that's just that's just nonsense. But you know, 40 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.240 before I get to the ZAR thing, something I've been hearing the last 41 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.560 two weeks is driving me up the wall. Uh, the Lions need to 42 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:30.199 get a number three wide receiver. They they can cemeentter the way to the 43 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:37.639 Super Bowl. See what bothers me about that situation is is Jared Goff is 44 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.800 who he is. Okay, you got Saint Brown and Laporte. These guys 45 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.479 are not stretched the field. They're yeat guys, right. They they'll think 46 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.319 they'll get the dump boss, and you know they'll get they'll get the yards 47 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.719 after the carry. And they're both incredible. This team is built by the 48 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.000 offensive line. In the running game. Why don't fans ever consider getting a 49 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.560 third runner back. I'm gonna throw all the name, but I know side 50 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.560 you can't get him. But what would be so wrong if the team got 51 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.560 Derrick Henry as you third running back. I mean, this team has got 52 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:11.520 a better chance of running the bout thirty times and winning games keeping that defense 53 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.680 off the field than they are getting a third wide receiver and stretching it down 54 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:17.160 the field. I just, you know, Freddy, the only thing I 55 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.839 could say about the Lions, I mean, I think fans and maybe the 56 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:28.319 media will get tired of talking about them getting pressure on the quarterback or their 57 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.279 their pass defense. And the only thing that you can say about the offense 58 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:36.160 everything else, I mean, the every other position performed. You know, 59 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.600 everybody's coming back. The only guy that's not coming back is a third wide 60 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.160 receiver in Reynolds. And yeah, I mean you want to say that he 61 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:49.759 could he's a loss, and that Donovan, People's Jones or khalif Raymond are 62 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:57.240 gonna they'll have a tough time filling in for you know, his production. 63 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:00.600 I don't know. I mean that that's a that's a stretch, but I 64 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.319 think that just is I think people get bored on one side of the ball 65 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.560 and there's only one thing to do. I mean, I don't think that. 66 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.160 You know, usually you go to the quarterback. He say, oh, 67 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:14.720 well, but I think people feel pretty good about where golf is at 68 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.000 if he gets to protection the players that he has around him. I mean, 69 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:23.639 this, this thing, this thing is coming down to can you can 70 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.759 you improve on the defensive side of the ball, and can you take the 71 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.319 next step? And the next step is getting to the super Bowl. So 72 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.160 everything's got to come out, and you know they got to be on point 73 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:35.480 with everything. Well right in the ball is going to help that defense right 74 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:39.680 now in the clock. And yeah, and I and I and I and 75 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.800 I've said this kind of before and I'm not wishing for it, but you 76 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.639 got to keep an eye on Emier Gibbs Man that fumble. You know, 77 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.279 I've seen guys in the NFL for years get a fumble and it sticks with 78 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:54.639 them mentally for a long while. And that was a big fumble that no 79 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:58.360 one ever talks about, uh in that game and uh, I mean, 80 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.120 I know some people talk about it, but that was a big bumball and 81 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.920 you just hope it doesn't stick with that kid mentally, because you just never 82 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.959 know, especially if he calls one up early and I don't. And I'm 83 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.560 not wishing for that, but that's something you've got to look out for, 84 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.319 because I've seen it with I mean, Wendell Tyler. You go back and 85 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.759 on and on on. But bizarre thing. I got two, but one 86 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.800 one would be for me, every sport get rid of vincent replay the human 87 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:27.480 element. I missed the human element of sports so much it's it's ruined the 88 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.879 game. When people say, well they get calls, they correct calls, 89 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.680 Well, you know what, they miss calls as well. To just keep 90 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:38.720 the human element in life in sports, and that's that's what I miss. 91 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:44.079 But for baseball, what I would do if I was the commissioner of baseball 92 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.480 Now, I don't have a calculator in front of me, and I don't 93 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.079 can't do the math right now, but I would Obviously I would not shorten 94 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.560 one sixty two. You got to keep one hundred and sixty two games. 95 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.879 But I would play a doubleheader every Saturday. Okay, first of all, 96 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.560 the families can get out and and you shorten us, you shorten the season 97 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.160 that way, So maybe you can go through May first through September first. 98 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.000 Again, I don't have a calculator in front of me, but May first 99 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.439 through September first. If you play a doubleheader every Saturday, and what you 100 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.240 do is you allow six to eight players come up in the minor leagues every 101 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:21.600 week to kind of kind of help them with it double that weekend and you 102 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.879 get more I think, you get more fans in the ballpark. You shorten 103 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.959 the season, and then the season is done by time October first comes and 104 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.680 really the NFL is really starting to kick in the high year. And that 105 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:39.560 would be that That's what I would do if I was the commissioner and I 106 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.040 and I think maybe once a month, I would take your Triple A team 107 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.600 and you know, maybe let them play a game before or after MLB game, 108 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.360 let the fans watch them play. You don't get to see these kids 109 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:55.240 playoffs. And I think it'd be I think it's all about the fan. 110 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.000 I think this is all would be about, all about helping the fan. 111 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.000 That's what I would do if I was a commissioner base Well, let me 112 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.519 just follow up on that last one. I'd never have entertained that thought. 113 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.079 So you were talking about like the the mud Hens on a Friday night instead 114 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.240 of playing down in Toledo. They would play after the Tigers. Well, 115 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.319 it wouldn't be a night game, so you'd have to do it during a 116 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.199 day game. So you're talking about it on a Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon, 117 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.519 allowing the Triple A team then to play afterwards at Co America or or 118 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.600 or before you know, or before before you know, maybe maybe eleven am 119 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.120 game, twelve am game, or twelve noon game. Just something one of 120 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.879 any any you know, maybe you know one one minor league game a year 121 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.399 from each you know, Double A, Triple A. It just it just 122 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.840 gives us. It gives these fans something to look at, because in reality, 123 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.559 a lot of them aren't going down to these Aree and Triple A U 124 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.000 or Toledo. And I think I think it would be kind of cool for 125 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.960 the fans. I think I think that's the problem with sports is everything's taken 126 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.440 away from the fan. Now. You know, I said your tech earlier 127 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.600 about Ace. You know, Ace did all those things for you, right, 128 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.799 because beers were four bucks or three bucks, those tickets were seven dollars, 129 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.519 parking was four dollars. Everything squeezed out of the fan now and every 130 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:16.360 everything, and and I just think that we need to start looking back at 131 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.120 the fan. And I know my phone's gonna come a cutout right now, 132 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.039 coming in the band zone. But that's what that's that's what I would do 133 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:30.559 is is shortened baseball and bring bring sports back to the fans. Well, 134 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.480 Freddie, I'm gonna jump on all of those topics. I loved it. 135 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.200 And that's the way it's done. If you're out there listening, you're the 136 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.960 sports are change something up. It's got the wheels turning. We'll dress some 137 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:43.399 of those points coming up here on AXS and Bros. Thanks for the call, 138 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.960 Freddy. It's Dennis fifty and in for Matt Sheppard here on the Michigan 139 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:54.480 Sports Network. In the Dan with Dan Dickerson. Hey, Tigers fans. 140 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.720 In the baseball season means a new season on Michigan's favorite island destination, Mackanawe 141 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.480 Island, Baseball Spring and Mackinaw Island. Things that return every year, reminding 142 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.759 us what a great state we live in. 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Baseball is now valuing slugging more 147 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:26.480 than contact, and hitters are getting in the major leagues by hitting with power, 148 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.559 not for average, but to have a long career, Aja believes you 149 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.639 have to learn how to hit first, be able to hit the ball where 150 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.399 it's fits, hit it hard, simply concentrating and getting the ball in the 151 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.159 early to a lot of empty at bats, Kin said, the Tigers need 152 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.159 to have a better understanding of the game situation, when to take a shot, 153 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.519 when to settle for the single. 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What did your dad say? 171 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.039 What it be entertaining to the audience? Eight six six eight three, eight 172 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.759 forty eight to forty three. That's the Myer hotline. You can text sports 173 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:41.320 Radio to twenty one thousand now tzar Freddy Last segment had a few interesting comments 174 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:46.200 on some changes that he would make. One he talked about bringing the Triple 175 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.639 A team or the minor league team to Coomerica. He was talking about before 176 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.840 a game or I was saying after a game, like on the weekend, 177 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.799 and just thinking about that. You know, if a game goes to extra 178 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.639 innings, there could be some logistical situations there. But there are plenty of 179 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:11.039 off days that the Tigers have during the calendar. And how about on one 180 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:18.279 of those Mondays or Thursdays where the Tigers are not playing, bring the minor 181 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.799 league team up and let them play at Comerica. That would give a lot 182 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:31.399 of people an opportunity that otherwise would not see their minor league team and make 183 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.120 the trip to actually see them. Now, the interesting part, would you 184 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:41.840 ever take your major league team and send them down to play at a minor 185 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:48.840 league park for you know, once or twice or three times a year for 186 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.519 instance, you know the Tigers, would you know play a game down at 187 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:56.440 Toledo, they would go to Erie for a game? Could they go to 188 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:01.159 West Michigan? Now immediately say, well, the ballpark only holds you know, 189 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:07.000 ten thousand. I mean that would pack it out maybe you would want 190 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.600 to do that early in the year with the weather where Comerica is not getting 191 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.759 that many people. Anyways, I know there's a lot of financial things that 192 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.240 you'd come back and say, oh, that's just not realistic. The amount 193 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:22.080 of money that they put towards the suites and season ticket packages. I mean, 194 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.879 it could be done. I mean that's the part where everybody's just automatically 195 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:31.600 is like, no, the money's I think you can look towards the fans 196 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.159 and how to you know, isn't that so that's not a people like I 197 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.200 hate gimmicks, so people, you know, some people like gimmicks and I 198 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.440 like to mix it up and see things differently. Now, my thought with 199 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:52.440 being a baseball czar in one of the parts, and even with the like 200 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.879 the Tigers playing at eerie or something, looking at the ballpark dimensions and if 201 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:03.799 it would really affect the game, the major league game, you say, 202 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.200 no, you can't have that kind of center field. It's too Now. 203 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:13.279 Look the Yankees whatever their short right porch, that's all we hear about every 204 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:18.039 time at Yankee Stadium. If there's something that would be even closer than that, 205 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.279 well you might have to consider like, no, well, then you 206 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:26.440 would not play at that park. I could. I get that part I 207 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.720 always thought, and it always gets shot down by baseball people when I brought 208 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:33.399 it up as being a sports are is that you know, I've never been 209 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.240 to a spring training game that would be on a bucket list. I wouldn't 210 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.759 mind just, you know, lounging around down in Lakeland, going around and 211 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.039 watching some spring training games sounds a little fun. Nobody cares about who wins 212 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.840 or loses. It's just about going to the ballgame. Why not. But 213 00:15:52.440 --> 00:16:02.159 because of the weather here in Michigan in April, you are really rolling the 214 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:07.120 dice. I have always thought that depending on the schedule and if you start 215 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.519 ten games out on the road and you come back, I know, sometimes 216 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.519 it can be seventy degrees and then it could, you know, but you 217 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.360 at least have a little bit better of a chance if you're pushing it back, 218 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.600 if you don't have to play your first you know, game until at 219 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:27.080 home until April fifteenth instead of April the first. I don't know, I'm 220 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.240 saying that you don't have the Farmer's Almanac and all the numbers here, but 221 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.240 just because it's later in the year. It seems like you have a better 222 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:38.799 odds year in and year out to have it a little bit warmer. And 223 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:42.399 it's a key like you know, you going down to a ball game when 224 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.559 it's fifty degrees and sixty degrees, it makes all the difference and whether people 225 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:52.440 are going to go or not. So my thought was, why not open 226 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:59.360 up the major league season down in Lakeland. Now I don't know exactly what 227 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.519 the ballpark dimensions are down there, and again, you know, you get 228 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.759 to the attendance. Is is it so small of a park that even drawn 229 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:14.400 three four thousand for a fifty degree game at Comerica, Is, you know, 230 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.799 is better than what you could have and what the attraction could be if 231 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:23.680 you actually had a real ballgame, real stats that mattered, a game that 232 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:30.960 really mattered down at Lakeland. That has been my idea. Now, you 233 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:37.720 know baseball. He said, well, they the dimensions and the attendant you 234 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:42.000 know, they go and they play. They just played the Phillies played in 235 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:45.039 London, and I looked at that ballpark. You know, it looked like 236 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:52.079 you know, Tropicicana overseas or something. You know, nobody likes tropic Cana. 237 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.200 And that's that catwalks all over the place, and it looked much like 238 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.440 a baseball stadium. Now, I know that made a lot more money than 239 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.839 they would not at Lakeland and everything else, but that is my thought. 240 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:11.039 It puts a wrinkle in, it changes things up, and it might help 241 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.680 weather wise when it comes down to it. That's where I would be as 242 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:21.400 a sports are now. Freddie said, played all doubleheaders on Saturdays. That 243 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:26.359 would shorten up the season. The Players Associated. I mean, every time 244 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.279 you get to this and you start saying, well, could it really happen? 245 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.400 And the Players Association would look at this and Tony Clark would immediately say, 246 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:36.880 we want one hundred million dollars more for every player if we're going to 247 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.759 do this. Freddie was able to say, look, you can bring the 248 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:45.759 minor leaguers up. There's so many rules and everything, but you could adjust 249 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.480 those. That's the part where we're at now and what has happened over the 250 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.279 last five years, where five years ago you immediately just out of hands say 251 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:57.519 no, you know you've got the players' rights and you don't want to start 252 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.759 the clocks, and well you can change all of that. It can change, 253 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.599 And I know you have to bargain it because you got your you got 254 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:08.680 your deal and everything else. But I mean, if you are looking towards 255 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:15.599 what is better for the game, and I know these guys can't do anything 256 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.720 like it was, go back to the pandemic when they had the opportunity to 257 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.359 get back onto the fields with the fourth of July and just what it would 258 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:22.680 have meant for the country and everything else. And no, no, they 259 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.160 weren't able to They weren't able to come to agreement, even though you know 260 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:32.319 so right, they would never do that. But that's on them, that's 261 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:37.440 not on us, And it could be better for the game if they went 262 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:41.519 that. What's really better is if they just if they actually did trim up 263 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:48.359 the season. But that's not going to be very realistic considering that you're always 264 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:53.119 pushing for not only more money, but then more money and everybody make more 265 00:19:53.200 --> 00:20:00.640 money, and automatically cutting down the season is going to hurt that opportunity. 266 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:06.319 So those things, because if we are being real, it would be best 267 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:10.319 if they just had a one hundred and fifty six game season. It would 268 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:14.240 be better. If you know, the NBA, the players, they don't 269 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.640 want to, they don't they sit out. You know, however, they 270 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.720 have gone through all of the different max performance and everything else, so we 271 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:30.119 know they don't play the games. They go to the load management and then 272 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:34.759 they're going to be out. So let's get a number where they think that 273 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.039 they can play every game at least when you're going in. I don't know 274 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.279 what that number is. I do remember that straight short in the season where 275 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.240 they you know, they just played forty games and it was great. Regular 276 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:51.880 season games meant a lot. But you know, that's again looks very unrealistic 277 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.319 in terms of how much money these guys and you'd say, hey, how 278 00:20:55.359 --> 00:21:00.920 about we just slash everybody's salary in half. That's going to be better for 279 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:03.240 the game. What are the chances that they're going to do that now? 280 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:08.519 Zero? That's what they're gonna do. But can they change some different things 281 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:12.839 up? That's the sports czar I was thinking about. You know, in 282 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:18.200 football, they actually they are changing things up. You know, they've got 283 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.559 a rule in it. Not that I can't wait, but it's going to 284 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:27.000 be one of those things that will be intriguing in the exhibition season, and 285 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:33.119 that is the new kickoff rule. So the kickers they kick off from their 286 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.640 own thirty five yard line. That's not going to change, but they're going 287 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:42.279 to be there by themselves. It's just going to be one single kicker standing 288 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:47.599 on his own thirty five yard line and the rest the other ten guys. 289 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.240 They are going to not only move up to the forty, they're going to 290 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.799 move into the opponent's territory all the way up to the forty yard line, 291 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.839 and then they're going to kick it off. And the idea is that this 292 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:15.440 is supposed to improve this highbred kickoff model is supposed to it's going to lessen 293 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.599 the impact, you know, from guys running full speed down there and breaking 294 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:26.920 up the wedge. But there's the idea that this is going to that this 295 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.799 is going to be able to get more kickoffs. Now, there's just a 296 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.920 story out today to say teams are just going to kick it out of the 297 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.000 end zone and let teams get it from their what do they get it from 298 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.880 the twenty five? Just get it from the thirty? Well where were you 299 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:44.240 at? Man? I'm sorry, Oh, we just got to get to 300 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:48.680 break. Oh well, let's do that and then come back and continue taking 301 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.759 your calls. Eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three on the 302 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.359 Myer hotline, x'es and Bros. On the Michigan Sports Network, We're teeing 303 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:03.079 off our tent here at the Meyer LPGA Classic for simply gives. Get ready 304 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:07.480 for the best who are yet to help neighbors in need while enjoying golf, 305 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.920 food and family fun. 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I'm Dennis Fifthyan in Formatt Shepherd. On this Father's Day weekend 315 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:21.440 Friday, We're asking you about your favorite dad sayings on this that's a holiday 316 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:27.519 weekend. We're also asking you specifically about to changes in sports, and you 317 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:33.279 have the chance to be the sports czar and you can make a change in 318 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.440 sports. I'd like to hear from you on that. Eight six six eight 319 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.400 three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline, we do have open 320 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:44.960 topics. Is there something you're thinking about of any of the stuff that we've 321 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.519 talked about, from the sweeps and the possible sweeps in the NBA and NHL 322 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:52.519 to anything with the Tigers. We've talked a little bit about the NFC North 323 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:59.240 and how much the Packers scare you as a Lions fan. All of that 324 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:04.000 on the tape and available for you text in sports radio to all one word 325 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:10.640 to twenty one thousand. We can get your feedback in that way. This 326 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:18.759 falls into the category which is looking and your your favorite dad sayings. You 327 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:22.000 know, there's the one where you know, this never happened to me, 328 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.279 but you know you often you see it in movies and you hear other people 329 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:29.359 say, oh, you know, you went to pick up a young lady 330 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:33.200 and or you had to meet her father and the dad had something clever to 331 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:38.400 say to you to like warn you against your you know, being nice to 332 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:44.359 his daughter, and kind of falls into this category with the sayings, I 333 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.160 think this is from a movie. I have thought about it, and you 334 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.240 know, I actually have had the opportunity, and it's going to be pretty 335 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:55.400 easy to do. Maybe I need to do it is need to find yourself 336 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:03.079 a bullet. Find yourself a bullet somewhere, and then when you're you're meeting 337 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:08.440 the prospective boyfriend that's going out and your daughter's there, and you know, 338 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:11.400 he comes into the room, you just take that bullet and then you just 339 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:17.799 underhand, you just you just toss it to the kid, you know, 340 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.440 and he catches the bullet and you know it's gonna catch him by surprise a 341 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:23.519 little bit. And then you walk up to him. I guess you could 342 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:26.880 say it out loud. I think it might be better if you're whispering it. 343 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:32.000 And then you you know, you really see what kind of you know, 344 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:34.519 a young man you're dealing with. But you say, nice catch. 345 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.039 If you mess with my daughter next time, it's going to be that bullet's 346 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:44.480 gonna becoming a lot faster at you. And then that's it a little funny, 347 00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.279 you know, they crack a smile, pat him on the back or 348 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.200 something. But he also knows whoa you know now that that's the kind of 349 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.160 father saying that I can get down with. Yeah, I might not like 350 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:02.559 that one, but uh, like I said, I've never tried anything like 351 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:06.920 that. I have heard of things like somebody like has something, you know, 352 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.279 mounted on the wall, or something they tell a young man like, 353 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.119 you know, look what's up there. You know that's I don't know, 354 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:18.039 but you know that could fall into the category. My dad. Most of 355 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.599 what he had to say to me that I remember was mostly about sports, 356 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.559 and a lot of it had to do with with golf, and you know, 357 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:33.640 to him, you know, telling me how I swing the club like 358 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.160 a baseball bat, or I needed to let the club do the work. 359 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:44.799 I wasn't good enough to be mad at the game, but I played enough 360 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:48.759 and was not very good. But I had this big slice and I still 361 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.799 do. And he had always At some point, you know, you try 362 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:55.880 to, you know, teach your son to you know, hit a ball 363 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:57.839 straight or whatever else. But at one point, you know, we were 364 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:03.559 playing in this screen tournament and he came out on the first tee and there 365 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.599 was nothing about uh, you know, swinging it like a baseball club. 366 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:12.759 He said, I want you to play your slice, and I started aiming 367 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:15.319 so far to the left. You know you'd look at me and say, 368 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.400 wow, what kind of stup it isn't boom it would be swinging out there, 369 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:23.480 and I hit a couple that were just you know, the that did 370 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:29.119 the trick for that day. Playing that slice was pretty good baseball, saying 371 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:32.960 if it was close enough to be called to strike, then it was close 372 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.519 enough to swing. Now, that just might be a good one to think 373 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.920 about for anyone out there. Not a bad dad saying either. Eight six 374 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:47.240 six eight three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline. Now being 375 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:52.240 a sports are and making a change in sports. When it comes down to 376 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:57.680 a college football I think there should be one last non conference game. I 377 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:06.160 would definitely put that into play. Right now we have three. Most teams 378 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:12.039 want to just schedule three home games and then three real super easy games, 379 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.759 and nobody benefits. The fans do not benefit at all from those games. 380 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.279 Nobody likes watching those games. I mean, you like football so much that 381 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.559 you do watch them just because you like your team so much. Once in 382 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:30.440 a while, you know, you get a great non conference game this year, 383 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.759 Michigan's playing Texas. That's very nice, But you know the other two 384 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.359 games Arkansas State Fresno State. You know that's not really doing it. If 385 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:44.880 you cut one of those games out and then you know, play a play 386 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:49.359 a conference game, you get a better feel for you You have this incredible 387 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.920 if we're talking about the Big Ten, incredible Big Ten. Now where you 388 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:03.279 are going to play without the Division A conference championship game, it gives you 389 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:10.839 a better gauge on who actually should be in that game. I definitely think 390 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:15.079 they should do that. Lop off a conference game, knock off a non 391 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.079 conference and play an additional conference game. I would like him to see that. 392 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:26.400 I would like him to do that. I'm sorry now I would also 393 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:32.599 In terms of rules, I don't like this one, but I think they 394 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:38.240 should change it up. The pass interference in college football. You can throw 395 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.079 a guy could get fifty yards down the field and be wide open, and 396 00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:47.440 the defensive back knows it and he just tackles him because he knows it's just 397 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.279 going to be a fifteen yard penalty instead of a you know, fifty, 398 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:53.400 and that what leads to an eighty year touchdown. I don't like that. 399 00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.400 But the flip side is is that you have a referee and you're putting so 400 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:02.200 much power and it's such a big play that they throw the flag. And 401 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.880 I do know that we had a caller this hour that said they wanted to 402 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:11.039 do away with replay all together. For the human element. I think the 403 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:18.240 genie is out of the bottle there. But they definitely could and can do 404 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:25.759 a better job with replay. I always feel like they what your idea of 405 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:36.799 irrefutable obvious video evidence is way different than mine. Irrefutable video evidence takes five 406 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:40.880 seconds to take a look at and you're like, but we can all see 407 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.920 that that's as clear as day. One hundred people out of one hundred people 408 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.400 would say that that is not the way they do things when it comes to 409 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:52.039 replay. They say that they have to have irrefutable video evidence, But it 410 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.599 comes down to, well, let's take a look at it from one hundred 411 00:31:55.640 --> 00:32:01.480 angles, let's wait five minutes, and then let's let's change. I think 412 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:06.039 that one more times than that they want to change what's going on over there. 413 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.160 It needs to be done. If you can't tell within five to ten 414 00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:15.559 seconds that it's completely obvious to a ten year old, Oh, what the 415 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:23.880 call is? Then the call should stand. If they practice that and did 416 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.200 that, I think you could give power to you know, they say the 417 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.680 eye and the sky. You know, people feel like it's conspiracy. But 418 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:36.599 with that fifteen yard flag, you throw the flag and the referees all get 419 00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:38.559 together and you have an official up in the booth and he takes a look 420 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:42.240 at it and he says, you know, this guy just blew that. 421 00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:47.119 No, he did not touch him. That should not be a fifty yard 422 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.480 pass interference call. When then you radio down to the team that are huddled 423 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:54.559 in there. I kind of believe that they do this already, and then 424 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:59.079 you pick the flag up. But it needs to be done in a timely 425 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:04.519 manner. But those are very subjective things. Timely manner, irre evidence, 426 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:08.400 and then you will have a hundred talking heads that it's going to make the 427 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.480 claim that the games are so big and the calls are so big, and 428 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.400 they change that. Uh, don't you want to get it right? That's 429 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.599 always the argument about the irrefutable video evidence. But don't you want to get 430 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.720 it right? We've watched enough of the games where we under they don't get 431 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.319 it right that they change so many of them. It's so arbitrary. And 432 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:34.200 we have the experts, the experts who in this case will who be whoever 433 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:38.039 the broadcast crew is if I took a hundred broadcast crews, and you know, 434 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:40.920 you have guys who played the games, the color analyst, and you 435 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.200 have guys that are calling the games that have done it for years or sort 436 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:46.920 of experts. When they take a look at these things, they've seen them, 437 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.920 a million of them, and saying with the with the actual color analysts 438 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.759 who have played the game, those guys, and then and then even in 439 00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:02.400 an addition, they'll bring in a long time the referee you know as the 440 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.119 analyst, whoever it is, Jim. You know, all of them that 441 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:13.679 come in there that used to be a referees, they half of the time 442 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:20.039 get it, are on the opposite side of the officials on the field or 443 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.039 the court. I mean, it's just that we've seen enough of it to 444 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.000 know that I know they'll say, oh, well, this is what's going 445 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:29.760 to happen. No, it's the exact opposite. And so that is very 446 00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:39.079 frustrating as a fan, changing that to shorter understanding that there's just going to 447 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:43.480 be when it's close, it's going to be a fifty to fifty call. 448 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:51.199 Figuring out that irrefutable video evidence needs to be in a quicker, more timely, 449 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:57.360 shorter range. I would like to see that. Now, what can 450 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.960 you do? These are the things that when I think about being a sports 451 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.880 are This is a losing one as well, But it's just it struck me 452 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.480 again watching the NBA Finals. I like watching the NBA. I enjoy it. 453 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:10.559 I know there's a lot of people like, I haven't watched an NBA 454 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:13.960 game in ten years, all right, well this one really isn't for you, 455 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:20.360 But it just there was, it came. It comes to light every 456 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:24.079 single game that I watch. It's it's my biggest complaint of watching the NBA. 457 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:31.679 It is the players that that cry and moan and complain after every single 458 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.639 call. And you know, you say, well, you're an old guy 459 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:39.960 and you know you're shouting. But and even going back to Michael Jordan, 460 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:43.280 that was the biggest thing. You know, yeah, he was against Detroit 461 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.960 and you know he was a rival and all these things, but you know, 462 00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.920 Jordan, he cried too much. He cried about every call. If 463 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.559 you know, I don't think you can actually put a rule in like you 464 00:35:54.760 --> 00:36:00.320 start teeing everybody off. I mean there's because it's gone so far that everybody 465 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:01.960 accepts it. There are even some people that are like, they like it. 466 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.519 They like the players complaining. I heard somebody complimenting Luka Doncic. It's 467 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.599 like, oh yeah, he's got a running commentary with the fans. He's 468 00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.239 screaming at the fans, he's yelling at the reft. That's not good. 469 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:23.960 I think a plea to the players that you're ruining the game. I understand 470 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.320 that you have to let some of your emotions, and I understand sometimes that 471 00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:30.559 they absolutely do blow it and so you do want to throw your hands up 472 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:37.840 and be exasperated. But every single call, can you minimize the complaining for 473 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:45.000 the good of the game. Can we get Joe Dumars to talk to these 474 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:51.000 players and say, look, and as much it made me think with Doncic, 475 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:54.079 so I enjoy watching playing that, but with every call, I think, 476 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:59.599 you know, I'm just going to rude for the Celtics, and look 477 00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:04.199 at their guys aren't completed, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. They don't seem 478 00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.840 to as much. Now. I said that and then last game they were 479 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.199 both throwing up their arms too. So every almost everybody. If you don't, 480 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:16.480 it's it's very difficult. If I said, do you know any players 481 00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:22.960 that absolutely don't the very never complained about anything. There's like very few of 482 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.559 them that even come to mind. Joe Dee is like one, but he 483 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:34.280 hasn't played in twenty years. Could they do that to minimize complaining? I 484 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:38.199 follows the sports are Adam Silbers, like, I got a lot on my 485 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:44.360 plate and you're talking about minimizing complaining. Good luck with that. But that 486 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.199 is something that I would like to see. The other thing that is an 487 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.079 easy one, but it's also a money one. But man, and they 488 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.559 did get rid of one of them. The NFL cut their preseason games from 489 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.119 four to three. Now they added a regular season game, and you have 490 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.840 to pay full freight if you're a season ticket holder, you know, for 491 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.320 those exhibition games. So that's why they're there. I mean, it's no 492 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.800 benefit for the players with warming up or being able to you know, and 493 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.840 Sean McVay doesn't play any of his starters anyways. You know, it's a 494 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.079 complete joke. It's it's always been mostly a joke. The exhibition games. 495 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.719 But since Sean McVay came in, it was like, we're even taking this 496 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.880 to it. You know, there's not even one series that we're gonna put 497 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.440 our guys. We're gonna put a bunch of guys that you and then you'll 498 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:36.960 have to pay the full amount of money for it. So I know it's 499 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.760 a money thing, but can we get down to at least two? I 500 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:49.000 can handle two? But the four was that the fourth preseason game. As 501 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:51.679 much as we wait and we sit around when were doing it today talking about, 502 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.320 oh, I can't wait for the and if a by the time you 503 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:59.400 get to the fourth preseason game, that was that was about the worst in 504 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:04.800 all of sports, even if you love football, watching that fourth one and 505 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.719 now the third one. What if you could just have two? I think 506 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:13.880 if you would actually you are excited to watch the first one the second one, 507 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:19.119 you actually could have a dress rehearsal. Let's go, let's do that. 508 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.679 That's another thing. Most of these and we know that the money part's 509 00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:27.960 always going to be the big stop sign, but they are for the fans 510 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:34.079 and what is better for the games? So that would be the one that 511 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:39.719 I would like to see for the NFL. Let's get rid of that. 512 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:50.159 That exhibition game. I go to an outstanding writer. He passed away probably 513 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:57.360 fifteen years ago now, but his name was The Killer. His name was 514 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:06.000 Tom Kowalski. He was a long time Lions beat reporter. And I didn't 515 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:10.000 know Tom Kowalski really well. But there was one exhibition game. I was 516 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:14.159 covering it, he was covering it, and it was after the game. 517 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.719 We were riding down on the elevator together out just so happened. It was 518 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:23.360 me and the Killer. The Killer was wearing this exhibition game flip flops. 519 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:29.599 And you know, i'd see him during the regular season, you would have 520 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:31.519 a dress shirt on, and you know he was I don't know about a 521 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:36.159 tie, but he was dressed up. He was not for this exhibition game. 522 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.960 He had, like I said, flip flops. You look like he 523 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:45.840 just came from the gym. And I said to him on the elevator ride 524 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.360 down, where's your tie? Killer? You're you're dressed like you're going to 525 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:52.960 the beach. And it was like I had lit a stick of dynamite and 526 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:55.960 threw it to him. And you know, sometimes you hear people in the 527 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.679 redio said that guy can't act like that all the time, or he can't 528 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.719 act like this is how the Killer was. He was so passionate about it. 529 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:06.320 And when I said, you know, where's your tie or where's your 530 00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:12.920 shoes? He said, when they start taking these things seriously, that's when 531 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.440 I'll take it seriously. And he like slammed his fist into the elevator. 532 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.599 He's a and it just set him off for the whatever it was two minutes 533 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:23.199 on the ride down. When they start playing these games and they matter, 534 00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:28.599 well, that's when it's gonna matter to me. The elevator opened up, 535 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.239 you know, he stepped out and he walked ahead of a good day and 536 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:35.679 I was like, okay. I was like, yeah, Killer, that's 537 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.320 the man when it comes down to exhibition games. So that's a nod to 538 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:45.159 Killer. I want to thank ben Zos producing great job today. Ben Thank 539 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.719 you, Thanks everybody for calling, texting in. Everybody had a wonderful Father's 540 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:52.960 Day weekend. Thanks to Matt Shepherd for letting me fill in here on the 541 00:41:53.000 --> 00:42:04.280 Michigan Sports Network. I have one more scheduled appointment to stand in later this 542 00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.519 month, so I'll be back. This is not the last time that'll do 543 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.400 it. Thanks for listening. Dennis Fifthy and x'es and bros. 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