Good evening everybody, and welcome to a late late edition of Fighter Up.
Thank you for tuning into us so late night. We do apologize, but
if you caught our Pundit's Pundits show earlier, you know why. And it
was a rocket and a rolling in the chat room there, and if you
missed it, I'm sorry, go check it out Selfwared Tribune YouTube channel.
But we're going to start talking tonight because the boys of Summer are back.
So I'll be honest with you. This is kind of a It's not my
favorite favorite sport, but it was the sport my dad loved. My dad,
and I kind of dedicate a lot of it to him. And I
think about go back and think reminisce about days when I was growing up.
My dad actually was a school teacher. He was a high school math teacher.
But so in his summers he had time to do things. So what
did he do. He worked for over thirty years with the Milwaukee Brewers as
an usher, and so he loved baseball. And I can remember Easter Sunday
us sitting in the backyard at my grandparents' house and we had it on the
radio. If the Brewers were playing we were listening, and so it brings
back a lot of good memories. And so I really this time of year
is always something special for me. So it brings back some good memories.
So look at the chatrooms already going. I love it, love it,
love it. Thank you, Joshua. What's going on? William missed the
out on the last show, Good Night, folks. Will will was on
the last show, Good Evening, Legendary night tune. Yes, yes,
yes, So I'm going to start out with the boys of summer. My
Brewers are doing one. The team that I cover down here that I take
pictures for Miami Marlins. They are doing horrible. Oh eight. It's the
worst start since a team made the playoffs last year till the worst start ever
ever in the history of baseball if they made the playoffs the year before to
start oh to eight this year, they're missing a lot. They're missing a
lot. I mean, they're missing obviously some star pitching. Obviously they have
some key injuries in that area. But I don't think they've done enough.
Sure and the talent that they need to go far. Go ahead, Jeremy,
I can already see you're trying to speak. It's like they didn't surround
areas with enough talent in front and behind him to protect him in the lineup.
He's trying to do it all on his own, and I think he's
overthinking it at the plate because he's actually swinging at a lot of stuff he
normally didn't. His plate disciplined, his lack He's looking this year like Bias
did last year, and Bias has actually been putting up numbers this year.
Who to funk it? Yeah, he's not having a good year at all.
Go ahead, well and to make some matter what's worse? I think
I just read that jury. Perez is going under Tommy John, which is
not fun. He's a great young pitcher and he's going through Tom and Jones.
That's it's gonna be. Sandy just did that last offseason, So that
means two down, and I know we're missing two other pictures. They've been
hit bad by the bug they have. Yeah, Tommy John surgery, that's
actually the UCL surgery when they talk about it in football, correct, it's
the same surgery. They just call it by the ligament that's turk in the
in football, right, Yes, yes, I would agree with that.
Tigers are doing pretty good there mister George. Yeah, they're five and on.
They sput the doubleheader with the Mets today. They're playing pretty well considering
the fact that a lot of their stars are just hitting for nothing right now,
including Torko Sun. Riley Green finally had a home run today, but
he's betting less than two hundred. Parker Meadows, the kid in the outfield,
he's done nothing. Uh. The catcher, he hasn't done anything.
It's the bat out. Yeah, yeah, Justin Rogers is the I'm talking
about. He's the starting catcher. But back up, you're right, Jeremy
has done really well, Kelly, So, I don't know, the passion
runs together and they're getting help them maybe a few places they didn't expect to,
but I definitely need to get some of those bats going again. And
all that being said, there's still five and one, crazy crazy stuff.
Yeah, the really pitching has been great and the starting pitching. You're right,
Jeremy. So, I just read something that I don't know that I'm
I know, I've never read it before, and it has to do with
a baseball game. It has to do with the New York Yankees and the
Marlins, because they actually Monday is Monday the eighth, the day of the
solar eclipse. They actually have not postpone, but rescheduled the game because it
was scheduled to be at two oh five, but because that's the time when
the eclipse will be going on, they've moved the game to six o five
PM. I don't know that I've ever heard of a baseball game being delayed
or pushed back due to a solar eclipse. And I completely understand why,
because if you look at that band at the sixty percent eclips, so that's
enough that it's gonna make the lights come on midday and that's gonna play with
the shadows of the ball. And then when the eclipse passes and it goes
to daylight and they showed up, they shut off, it totally changes it
again. And they talk about that at those dust games, you know,
like the seven oh five starts during the during the summer, how the ball
totally changes how it looks to a batter as the sunset and the lights come
on. And that is the main thing I think they why they did it,
and I think they're doing it almost across the league. All of them
are going to be moving their starts either earlier or later to avoid the eclipse.
And I actually think it's a smart idea. I do too. I'm
going to can tell you that they the first fifteen thousand fans to arrive will
receive a Yankees solar Eclipse T shirt to cover said. But again, here's
one of the things that George you, I know, have talked about this
extensively, is how teams, why they're giving games to teams that are up
in the north where it could be snowing cold this time of year, why
they're not putting them in dome stadiums or playing them in the sophomore Now,
I get solarops is going to be for everybody, but you play in the
Marlins with the roof, you would the solar eclipse isn't really going to affect
it. Yeah. Well, the thing is, it gets very complicated because
some of the teams have what you call traditional opening opener. Those two that
come to mind right away are Baltimore and Cincinnati. And I don't know if
there's some unspoken agreement somewhere among the league owners, but they always are home
for the first series always, and I like that because those two are cold
cities. You had the Angels on the road playing. Yeah, and they
should have been home the first weekend of the year. But you had a
warm city team, if you will, the La Angels playing on the road.
But yeah, I think that I don't think it's ever going to happen,
guys, I really do. I can squak about it, you can
squawk about it, but I don'pe think the owners are ever going to change
about it. Hey, if anybody's got a good opener, we all know
it's the Tigers. It's a city holiday, it's a civic holiday. And
Jeremy, you can attest to this. It's a party, man. It's
a party because you're downtown. Even if you even if you don't have a
ticket to the game, it's still happening and it's a party. Yeah.
They advertise it as a free tail gate. The only thing you got to
pay for is the food you want to eat or the drinks you want to
drink the tailgates to enter. So as long as you can find parking somewhere
and you can get downtown, you can have a very good time cheap for
sure, for sure. But the Tigers. Getting back to my point,
though, the Tigers are not one of those that's locked in because like this
year, they send them on the road. They all opened up in Chicago,
then they opened up in New York, I mean for their season opener,
and now you got the the home first home game at Detroit tomorrow versus
the eight. Yeah. Those those stumbling, bumbling alk as. They may
suck versus every other team in the league, but they show up versus the
Tigers every year. I don't know what it is, but we can't get
a winging record against that team. I don't know, and not since twenty
twelve, right right, crazy, crazy crazy? Yeah. Well, let's
face it. Last week when we were talking there were some college basketball games
that were being played at that time. We now know who's in the final
four. It would be Purdue against number eleven seed North Carolina State, and
we have Alabama versus number one seed Connecticut. So let's go around and everybody
can give their predictions and talk a little bit about what they think about the
games. We'll start with Will. So I'm looking at the matchup North colin
The States had amazing run. They beat Duke in the Conference hermin and then
they proceed to win the conference tournament against their rival Chapel Hill and they make
their way to this at the Final four against Purdue, which Purdue is on
a revenge tour because Purdue lost it last year in the first game against Fairley
Dickinson. So I'm looking towards a matchup between Edie and the other big guy
for NC State. I forgot what his name is. I always forget his
last name, but that's gonna be It's gonna be a matchup of big men
and it's gonna be fun to watch. So but my edge, I'm kind
of biased because a Ontario fan, but I'm sorry n C fans, You've
had a great run. I think produced just the better team. As for
Yukon Alabama, Yukon's having trouble getting to Arizona for the Final four. Their
travel issues have been bad, like they've ran into some many issues, but
their coach is like, traveling ain't gonna stop us from doing what we do.
And Alabama beat my targets. But I just think Yukon, because they're
the defending national champion and they proved it all your the best team that they'll
beat Alabama. So I'll say Yukon versus Produce. George Well, I was
on a show, not tonight but last night, and they were asking Scott
was asking the predictions and all that. Nobody could believe what was coming out
of my mouth because I'm picking up and the reason is they have a very
very good up and down the roster, very good team, and I know
they've had some a few breakdowns defensively, and I know it's going to take
a perfect game to beat Yukon. I'm kind of pulling for them. I
know that Nick Naben left them this year, so the athletic program has kind
of been flat. But Boyle Boyd, the Crimson tidle Roland right now in
men's hoops, So I'm going with the upset there for no other reason then
I really don't want to see you Ukon win it two years in a row.
But that's just my friend, So take it for what it's worth.
But yeah, this is uh, this is this is new territory for Alabama
in men's hoops to be in the final four the other game. Uh,
you know, Will's referring to Burns. I believe the big center J Burns.
Yeah, yeah, what a hell of a run he's had anti State.
This is going back many many years in the eighties since they've been in
the final four. So but I'm still gonna go with Purdue because I'm I
look at it this way like kind of what you hit on will. I
mean, they they they came so close last couple of years. They've had
outstanding teams and outstanding player and a lot of them, as you said,
you know, still play and walk this championship really bad. And trust me,
I saw that happen in football with the Michigan Wolverines and how all the
guys wanted to say most of them and come back to this past year and
they did. Think there's a lot of people that are doing the same thing.
They just they just get get this championship. Let's cut down that net.
And uh but they're gonna be both with Sandy. But my two are
Alabama Purdue, and then of course I got Purdue winning it all. Okay,
mister Jeremy, I'm gonna say what I said the last time we talked
about the college thing, and that was at the field of thirty two.
Yukon's winning the whole darn thing. There isn't a team in this thing that
is anywhere near the class that they have. Clinger took over Illinois. I
mean the job they did defensively, holding a guy that would been averaging twenty
four points a game to eight points. I I don't see how anybody's beating
them. I don't care how much of a lull and how good Alabama's playing
everybody else, they haven't faced the Yukon. Yukhn has got guys on the
bench scoring in the double digits, but when Klinger's putting up thirty eight,
you don't really need the bench either. I agree, I agree, So
I will say you all, by the way, I forgot to mention,
but uh, it's gonna be Yukon versus NC Steak because I hate her,
don't. So I'm gonna disagree with you, Jeremy. But that's okay because
I'm a Big ten fan. And sometimes when you're a Big ten fan,
if your team isn't in it from the Big Ten, you're gonna stick with
the Big ten team. And I think, like Will said, Purdue's got
a chip on their show from last year. They want an He's he's on
a mission, he wants it, so I think he is. Ironically,
I think they're gonna beat NC State now Yukon. I think is gonna take
it all anyways. So but I find it kind of interesting that on the
boys side, NC State is playing a team and Yukon is playing a different
team. And the same with the women is that the Yukon are also in
it playing against Iowa and North Carolina State for the women are playing South Carolina.
So the two schools have both the women's and men's program playing in it,
which I think is really that's really great. I mean, it's great
for those schools, great for those programs. Let's now switch to the women's
program women's side. North Carolina State's a three seed, they're playing South Carolina,
who is a one seed. And then we have number three Connecticut going
against number one Iowa. Any predictions because I know, like we don't normally
talk a lot about women's basketball, but I'm going to start this time instead
of with Will, I'm gonna start it with George. Oh. Well,
uh, you know, I think most of the United States would like to
see young Caitlin in her senior year or last college appearance. Probably that's uh
it all for Iowa. The Hawkeyes women Hawkeyes have had a fabulous year,
as we all know. I think again, You're talking about a great program
with Yukon, and I don't know, that's going to be a tough game.
I'm gonna have to go with Yukon on this one. I just think
the magic might run out this this this game for Caitlin and then the other
game. I'm going to go with South Carolina. I think they got a
little bit more balanced attack, and they're a good program, very good program.
They've got a fantastic hear those ladies and you know overall, then I
guess I'm gonna go with Yukon because I didn't pick them in the Mountains.
I got to pick them in the ladies section. The women's finals and hands
talk to Cleveland, Ohio, by the way, for hosting this this weekend.
Yeah, because you know, unlike the men, the ladies can't get
a big stadium to play in. This is true. They are always in
a regular I call arena. You guys know this. I'm sure they're not
in a big stadium like NCAA men, you have to have a size of
Ford Field or the super Dome or Phoenix's new Stadium or the Irving you know,
the Cowboys home. But the women have some. But hey, their
ratings are so good they might they may review that power and maybe someday try
to have the women's Final Four in a football stadium. I just throw that
in there. I'm gonna go with Yukon to win it all Candy and the
women's Okay, well what do you think? So before this show, I'm
on a basketball show that talks basketball. Shout out to Meg Priceless tip Off,
where we preview men's and women's basketball pros and college I was born in
Connecticut. This Iowa Yukon game is a great game. You got Page Beckers,
my girl, on one side against Caitlyn Clark, who's probably the most
dominant women's college basketball player right now and one of the greatest players of all
time in women's basketball history and college basketball drops triple doubles and stuff. And
I like Caitlyn too, don't gimme me wrong. I got Yukon because they
got more weapons on their team. I do think Caitlyn will have a good,
good game. But I think even though this sounds biased because I'm from
Connecticut, I got Yukon winning that game because they just have more depth on
the other side. South Carolina. South Carolina Don Staley is building what Yukon
had many years ago, a dynasty of winning multiple championships in a row.
She did it last year, she was on the Actually she didn't win it
last year. I'm sorry she wanted two years ago. Last year, elis
do you won it? But she's created a program like a Yukon, a
dominant powerhouse, and she she knows how to coach the team in the final.
I got South Klina against Connecticut. Yes, I think Don Staley's a
great coach and she and o Oriama is a great coach, and it's gonna
be They're gonna be butting heads and it's gonna be a close game through and
through. But I'm hoping if this isn't the year, I hope you can.
I want I have Yukon winning it. But if they don't it this
year, I guarantee next year hopefully. Okay, Jeremy, I got Iowa
versus South Carolina. I just Caitlin cark Park with how she lost to LSU
last year and got to put it to him this year when that girl fall
fouled out and she got all crying and deligerent about it. So I got
I got it going Iowa versus South Carolina. South Carolina is just too full
of a team. On the other side, I got Iowa going there,
and I think South Carolina wins it all. You know, Jeremy, for
one time, I completely agree with you. South Carolina is on a ride.
They haven't lost the game yet this year. Now, did they call
the women's basketball team the game Hends instead of the Game Cocks? No,
unfortunately, not they should. I'm just saying it just doesn't sound right because
I think the women tend to hear called the lady volunteers. Yes, most
most colleges do that. That's right. Well, like we have in Detroit
the Titans, and they're called the Lady Titans. Mm hmmm at all,
Jeremy, Sorry, they should have. I think these will both be very
good games. Now, I will say that I think this will probably be
one of the best drafts for women's basketball then we've had in quite some time.
I think there's a lot of players coming out of the draft and going
into the draft. And now remember the women play, They play Friday and
Sunday and then their draft is already on Monday, I believe. So it's
real quick. It's boom boom, boom. But I think Caroline is going
to take it all. I do have Iowa beating Connecticut. I think Kim
Malarkey said it best that you and I realize Caitlin Clark is only one player,
but Iowa does have other weapons. It's not just Caitlin Clark. But
I think it's she's just too hard to defend. And I will say this,
and Caitlin said this herself, that she'll know when the beginning, like
when she gets out there on the floor, if the threes are flowing,
she's hard to stop. And let's face it, that's pretty much about anybody.
If you're hitting, if you're on, you know it's your night.
You know you can't miss. It's kind of like a picture in baseball.
If you know you're on, you're throwing those strikes and you're on, but
you also know if you're not on, you're off. So but I think
Clark's gonna bring it because I think she she wants it, and she was
disappointed last year. I think she's gonna get it this year. Who kudos
to her because she got two years in a row. Player of the Year,
So good for her, good for her. Choose awesome, Yes,
Jeremy, you want to cover a little bit of football news, sure,
because this on done. Kean's Inn said Lions brought in kool aid for a
top thirty visit, and that's great, and it's doing their due diligence because
no one knows who's falling at twenty nine. No one knows if Brad Holmes
plans to trade up, trade back, or whatever. So getting as many
of those four or five guys that might be there at twenty nine in for
a visit is probably a good idea because I don't think we have the AMMO
to trade up without busting future prospect or future draft picks. So I don't
know if we trade up plus right now. Cam Sutton's contract has not been
voided by the NFL, and with him being released on an OYR on a
misdemeanor charge rather than the originally felony charge that was listed, it may get
held against the Lions, and that means it could cost us dead cap,
which is why they kind of went stagnant and free agency and stopped adding a
bunch of people. It's kind of why we matched the offer for brock Right,
which actually was only one point zero one five more than what he would
have made. Anyways, it was kind of a no brainer to keep him
on the roster because he's our blast, best blocking tight end and our tight
end two on the roster. So to bring him back at four million a
year over three years when Everett just got signed to Chicago for six million as
there two, it's a it's kind of good value. Let's see what else,
And we brought back Kendall Vildor to be the CB five. It's depth
peace, he'll be making the league minimum posision. How about kicking a sixty
four yard feed field goal? Wait, it's not that he did it once,
though everybody misses this point. There was a timeout called just before the
snap was done, and the holder was lined up three yards further back than
he needed to be, and the kid had a sixty seven yarder with enough
clearance that he could have hit it from seventy We're talking about a kid that
hadn't made a field goal kick since high school. All he had done is
kickoffs as coming off the practice squad in the NFL, and for his first
two kicks to be sixty seven and sixty four yards respectively and hit both of
them, Kudos to Jack Bates, who was actually brought in for a visit
to talk about after the season's done for the UFL, because they can visit
them, they can talk with them, they can't offer a contract, they
can't contact the agent or any of that stuff. So after the season's done,
you're allowed to interview them and that's it. So kudos to the Lions
to bring them in right away, because Michigan Panthers is actually this region's UFL
farm. Is how it works. The one that's over there near Philly is
for all those teams over there, there's one in New York, there's one
down in Houston. I believe there's one down. Isn't there one in Orlando
or near Florida or Alabama? Yep? And then they got the West coast
ones, So that's how it works. Those are the regional where those teams
get to pick out of that pool of players on that team first. And
that the second time he kicked that sixty four yard it actually hit the net,
so they're saying it could it would have been good for five or six
yards even further back right another justin Tucker's leg for somebody that hadn't kicked into
high school in twenty nineteen. If you are going through any kind of NFL
withdrawal, go watch the UFL. Watch it and you'll also be able to
see what the kick return will look like. That's the exact rules we're using.
Correct, correct, exactly. Okay, guys, I think it's time
for my town because you guys all know I like that segment. So the
segment of my town means you get to choose a topic for either the town
that you live in or the town you grew up with. Let's start with
smoking Jeremy b how about that last year it took eleven games for Bias to
get his seventh hit, and through six games he has four. It's amazing.
It's like this bat learned how to find the ball and the pitch that
he did to dry Riley Greenholme for the only run in the game two today.
It was actually off the plate away and because he was leaned in with
that crouch that he does and held through the strike zone with the level bat,
he poked it right over the second basement into right now center and driving
in Riley Green from third after the errant throw when he was stealing second base,
so he got a stolen base and an extra base off of it off
of a single and the amazing it's just been an amazing run. Trek Scruball
looks as good as he was, and Casey Mayes was electric earlier. I
mean, his stuff was good. I love to watch. I mean he's
actually added velocity since his surgery, and he actually rehabbed and gained the weight
and got better mechanics. He's actually gained a two miles per hour on every
pitch except his curveball. Wow. If he can get that, he wants
to get that two miles an hour on his curveball because it'll be more effective
because of the pitch rate and the spin rate. At that miles per hour,
it's supposed to add anywhere from four to six inches more of movement.
Okay, mister will so in my Charlotte, North Carolina, as we know,
we have heard that Hornets coach Stevefford is going to be stepping down at
the end of the season and we'll move over to the front office with the
team. My thoughts is it's the second stint with the team. I was
never a big fan of him. He was mainly the defensive coach both times
with US and he's going to the front office. Yes, I'm excited to
get a new coach, but I don't personally I like our new front office.
That's a young face. I think the guy's like thirty five something years
old. But honestly, I'm not excited about that. I was never really
a big fan of mister Clifford at all. Don't get me wrong, you're
an NBA coach, You're on the highest level of coaching. Basketball. Just
never is a huge fan of him. And as we previewed earlier in the
standum North Carolina. But we got two teams in the final four, NC
State women who were playing South Conta and NC State men who are playing against
Purdue. So the state of North Carolina is happy. So that's what's going
on in my neck of the woods. Okay, mister George, Well,
Jeremy took my Tigers thunder. He took my Detroit one thunder. So jed,
Hey, all I got left is the Detroit Red Wings. But you
know that's not a bad story at all. But but listen to this.
There are counta, one, two, three, four teams within two points
of each other for the final Eastern Conference Wildcard birth right now, you got
the Islanders with eighty three, you get the Capitals with eighty two, the
Red Wings with eighty two, and the high flying they've won three in a
row, Pittsburgh Penguins with eighty one. And despite what Ralph says about his
Penguins, they are fast and furiously trying to make the playoffs. But getting
back to the Red Wings, very important when the other day on the road
of playing the Tampa Bay Lightning and defeating them, Tampa Bay of course owns
the first wild card spot. Yeah, with ninety three points, but right
now the prognosticators are given Detroit just I think it's around a fort chance of
making the playoffs, and they're basing that on the fact that a lot of
it on the fact that the Red Wings have a really, really tough schedule.
They've got the eighty two points, they're on pace for ninety points,
but even ninety may not be enough. So for example, this Friday tomorrow
you got the Tigers opening up, and then across the street you have the
Red Wings hosting the New York Rangers. Very very important. Every game is
important, every play is important, every shift, as they say, is
important. So the Red Wings sitting there with a forty seven percent chance to
make it. I still like their chances of making it. The problem is
is there's a lot of other teams too that are in the in the contention
for the last, like I said, Eastern Conference playoff spot. But it's
been a really good year. The Red Wings have done very well. Steve
Eiseman made some great trade acquisitions and free agent signings, and they've really really
improved their offense this year. Goaltending is still a little bit, you know,
suspect, but you know they're trying to get by with the best they
can in that position. So that's about it on me the Red Wings,
and this is a great point of discussion because it hasn't happened in many many
years. Were still talking about making the playoffs and here it's already April.
It's a good will. A lot of that has to do with how they
played in March. George, I don't know if you realize this, but
the Pistons won more game in March than the Red Wings did. No,
I didn't know that. Yeah, they went three and eleven and the the
Pistons went four and twelve. That's disgusting to be where they were. They
had the second wild card locked up to lose that many games. But the
reason why they're only at forty seven percent is because Pittsburgh and the Capitols have
two more games to play after the Red Wings are done, So even if
they all end up tied at the end, all the other people do is
have to have one tie. Yeah, and get that one. Yeah.
That's a good point that that's why it's forty seven percent. Otherwise it'd be
fifty percent. Yeah, Okay, Well on mine and mine is kudos to
the Milwaukee Brewers. And the reason why I'm sayings to Milwaukee Brewers is because
you allowed your famous famous announcer to call opening game. Bob Buker was back
at American Family Field once again to broadcast the Milwaukee Brewers home opener. He
is ninety years old. This will be Yuker's fifty fourth season broadcasting Brewers baseball,
though he has already limited himself to home games for the last several years,
Yuke is very focused on always being at a Hall of Fame level.
Brewers principal owner Mark Ontonaisio said before the Tuesday's game he doesn't just want to
be in the booth to be in the booth. He's very mindful, he
said. Mark says to him, you don't have to do play by play
for all nine innings or seven and the nine you can do less. Bob
Youuger grumbles at that idea. You can flip rolls you and then do color.
He didn't want to talk about that, and so it goes starts Bob
Youuker behind the microphone. Uker became the voice of the Brewers back in nineteen
seventy one and has been part of their broadcast team ever since. He regularly
makes appearances on the field and in the locker room, conversing with the players
and coaches. He celebrated when they won the NL Central title. He used
to play baseball. He played in the majors from sixty two to sixty seven.
He played with the Milwaukee Atlanta Braves, the Saint Louis Cardinals, and
the Philadelphia Phillies. He worked as a national color commentator for ABC and NBC
baseball telecast and earned fame beyond that of a usual broadcaster because obviously he's made
late night talk shows, beer commercials. He did the movie Major League.
He also starred in Mister Belvedere, an ABC sitcom that aired over one hundred
episodes. He is mister Brewers, mister Milwaukee. Kudos to him. He
is a Hall of Famer broadcaster already. I hope he goes because when you
grow up with one broadcaster that you grow up and you love, you want
to hear him forever. Let's face it, there famous ones all over.
Every team has had them. Tigers had Ernie Harwell that everybody knows that Vince
Scully called how many games some of the big name, big name ones.
So kudos that he is still at ninety feels good enough that he can call
games. Let him call games he wants. Yeah, he's a great guy,
a great announcer. It's funny when you mentioned about that ABC, because
I remember they used him as a Monday night baseball on ABC many years ago
before ESPN started doing Sunday nights and Uker was in Detroit, I believe for
several games involving Mark the Berg fitterant who, as you guys know, in
seventy six, turn the baseball world upside down with his antics and winning nineteen
games. But yeah, Uker, I remember him coming into town here to
do not only the Brewers, but the Monday night baseball games. He doesn't
even have a contract. He just does it. Wow, you know what
I love. Don't get me wrong. My favorite memory of him is always
going to be from the Major League franchise when he was on there and he
was playing a lush that hated watching the Indians lose all the time, and
he gets to the end of the show he goes, don't forget to come
out tomorrow night for uh what was it old timer's night? Anybody was alive
the last time the Indians won a World Series, they get in for free.
But the only thing I want to add though, that we I feel
remissed. We had a bench player outscore every player offensively for the season in
one game and a loss for the Pistons. Malachi Flyinn scored fifty points versus
the Atlanta Hawks and we lose by eight. When your bench player outscores the
entire other team's bench, you should not lose. Kudos to him. But
it's the eighth most by any Detroit player in history. It's also the most
by any bench player in the NBA's history. Yeah, I should say so.
Well, okay, then that said on sixteen lions or this year Pistons
more disappointing. If you look at what they were projected at the start of
the season, you would have to say the Pistons are the most disappointing because
they were supposed to be a borderline playoff team and they're scraping the bottom of
the barrel for a second year in a row. Let's hope that the draft
lottery don't screw him out of whoever it is. I think it's that Aaron
Sar out of France that's the big number one pick this year. Hopefully we
don't get screwed out of him this year. Okay, well, let's call
this a night. Let's wrap this show up. Well, how can everybody
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