WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.200 Well, how hard is it just to absorb a loss like this after going 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:11.960 ahead by twenty? The season's over. That's what's hard, being up twenty 3 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:17.920 season's over. You don't understand that the season's over. It's hard. Stupid 4 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.280 ask questions. Nicole and Jamal coach carried a lot of the burden offensively for 5 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:28.960 you guys, So what did you what sort of broke down between them within 6 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.439 the second half, just within those actions? Well, I think so much 7 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:37.520 is being placed on their shoulders. I mean it was you were expecting Nicola 8 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.880 and Jamal can to continue to pull rabbits out of their hat man and somebody 9 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.479 else got to get some help. I mean, you know, Joker thirty 10 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.799 four, Jamal thirty five, and you know we just struggle to make shots. 11 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.880 You know, they're a really good defense. I thought, I guys 12 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.679 play stremely hard tonight to hold that team to ninety eight points thirty nine from 13 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:00.520 the field, twenty nine from three. But as I said, old series, 14 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.239 long, are we gonna be able to score enough in this series? 15 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.400 And once again in the four losses, we couldn't score. Okay, So 16 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.840 look, so you're down fifteen and a half, You're down twenty early in 17 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:19.719 the third. How did you maintain some poise, be patient and make this 18 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.120 happen. It was tough, man, because I couldn't find myself my rhythm 19 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.400 tonight. So I just had to trust my teammates. Man. They kept 20 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.560 trapping me even though I was off, So I just had to make the 21 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.159 right play throughout the rest of the game, man, And I did that, 22 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.719 and my teammates made shots. Man, So big, big shout out 23 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:40.439 to those guys and vcior congratulations to you. Let's talk about the fourth quarter. 24 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.200 Well throughout the three quarters, they made it tough for you, double 25 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.079 team, and you see, like you said, you trusted your team and 26 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.239 you found life in the fourth where you saw a couple of baskets go through 27 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.719 you got the big steel to the dunk. Tell me about that. I 28 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.480 mean, you know, it's more ways to win a basketball game when you 29 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.159 just not when you're just not an offensive player. Man, I'm not want 30 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:01.920 to mention I'm not just a guy who can score. I'm a guy who 31 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.280 can go whoever they best guard is, I can go lock him down. 32 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.080 So I feel like I did that on Jamal in the fourth quarter, and 33 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.319 that's what in the third quarter and fourth quarter, and that's what turned the 34 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:21.960 game around. A good post games sound from Mike Malone, the head coach 35 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.840 in the Denver Nuggets, and then Anthony Edwards, the star for the Minnesota 36 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.759 Timberwolves after Minnesota beat then gets in Denver ninety eight to ninety. It's a 37 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.080 couple of things there, Ben. I don't know how you feel about this, 38 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:43.719 Mike Malone. It's this is where it's very difficult, right, very 39 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:50.520 very hard to get coaches or players you know, within ten minutes or so 40 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:55.680 after a hard loss. The emotion of it, all the roy emotion, 41 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:06.319 it's it's really hard. But say it. It's a dumb ass question is 42 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.479 ridiculous too, because it's not. How hard is it, Mike, to 43 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:13.840 accept, especially when you had a twenty point lead, the season's over. 44 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.960 That's what you don't understand. Now. The reporter understands it's over. He 45 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:22.680 understands. He knew going to the arena that it was Game seven and that 46 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.960 one of the teams was going to lose and that team season would be over. 47 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:31.360 He knew while he was at the game, charting the game, writing 48 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.919 about the game, that the season was about to end for one team. 49 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:39.199 He knew when the buzzer sounded that your season is over. That's a given. 50 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:50.479 Mike. It'd be great to have one reporter say dumbass answer, wouldn't 51 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.280 it. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, seriously, I mean that's 52 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.479 me being a little protective of the media. I think we asked some really 53 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:03.479 stupid questions too. I do absolutely. The Vince Carter question is one of 54 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.479 them. You know, tell me about that. One of my biggest pet 55 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.639 peeves been in the media is talk about when you hear somebody say, talk 56 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:19.000 about or tell me about that, ask the question. It's not that hard. 57 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:25.040 It's really not. Asking a question is easy. Asking a good question 58 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:29.519 is difficult, And if you ever worried about it, go back to the 59 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:34.199 basics. I know that's hard in our business and in life. Who what, 60 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:45.079 When? Where? Why? But I digress. Minnesota Wins ninety eight 61 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:51.079 ninety Mike Malone's saying that we rely too much on two guys, Then how 62 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:56.040 many times have we talked about in the NBA you need at least you need 63 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.319 the three guys. Now, in the past we thought it was two right, 64 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:05.120 Well, now it's obviously with three you need three guys to elevate their 65 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:11.120 games a little bit. Two did. They could not score yesterday. Michael 66 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.759 Porter Junior was three for twelve. Combined, Yokitch and Murray were twenty six 67 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:21.319 of fifty five. Now, yo Kitch was terrible from three he was two 68 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:26.279 of ten, but he had thirty four points and nineteen boards. I'm not 69 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.040 sure what more you want from a guy like that. He also had seven 70 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.480 assists. By the way, he looked tired. Did you watch that at 71 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:38.600 all? Ben? He looked super tired, man like he was spent. 72 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.839 Murray, in the meantime, had thirty five points. So combined they scored 73 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:50.600 sixteen. They scored seventy seven percent of their points sixty nine of ninety seventy 74 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:58.000 seven percent of the point scored by two guys. Couldn't get it done. 75 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.639 Hats off to Minnesota. By the way, Minnesota was down twenty in the 76 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.920 third. If you didn't watch this game, you would be reading the storyline 77 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.480 today, and that has to be part of the storyline. Don't read an 78 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.959 article that doesn't bring up the fact that they won on a fifty four to 79 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:25.079 twenty four second half run in Denver against two of the better players in the 80 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:32.759 league. Yokichen Murray against the defending world champions. I said this the other 81 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:39.879 day. There's that old cliche right about heart of a champion. Never underestimate 82 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:45.759 the heart of a champion. Well, Minnesota wasn't afraid. Give him a 83 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.120 ton of credit. Really impressive. Largest comeback in a half game down at 84 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:56.600 the half, down fifteen at half, largest comeback at the half in an 85 00:06:56.759 --> 00:07:01.600 NBA playoff game in history, which surprises me. I'll tell you who is 86 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.360 really good from Minnesota, and we can get caught up in the names all 87 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:12.680 we want, and I do for a good reason, because you look at 88 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:18.439 the way Anthony Edwards plays. He's an absolute beast. He didn't lead him, 89 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:23.160 not in scoring anyway. Karl Anthony Towns had a double double twenty two 90 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.839 points, twelve boards. That's the guy I would have wanted to talk to 91 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:31.319 postgame. I get that Anthony Edwards is the star, but talk to the 92 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:35.360 guy who was the best, Jaden McDaniels. He was pretty damn good too, 93 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:41.800 He had twenty three. But the guy who caught my eye is the 94 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.959 sixth Man of the Year, Naz Reid eleven points. Fine, it's the 95 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:56.560 two blocks that were most impressive. Two blocks and one of them on Jokic 96 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:01.800 late, So minnesot it was on too. The Western Conference Finals and they 97 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:09.959 get home court and they will take on Dallas. Count me as one of 98 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:15.600 the surprise people. I had Okay seeing Denver in the Western Conference Finals, 99 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.879 and I would have been wrong in both. I had Boston and New York 100 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.519 in the Eastern Conference Finals. Now, I did not anticipate Jalen Brunson getting 101 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:30.079 hurt. I did not anticipate og Ananobi unable to play. This is before 102 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.840 all the playoffs began, by the way, but that's exactly what New York 103 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.960 had to deal with. It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. What 104 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.960 Indiana did was one of the more impressive playoff games you will have witnessed. 105 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:56.039 What he did, or what Indiana did, was shoot a playoff record sixty 106 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:03.440 seven percent from the floor. Here's the reason it's so impressive what Indiana and 107 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:09.039 Minnesota did. Folks, home teams in the NBA playoffs in history, home 108 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:18.039 teams in game seven now one over seventy two percent of the games. And 109 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:24.039 we saw two road teams buck that trend in the same day. Indiana blows 110 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:31.000 out the next one thirty to one oh nine. Great stuff. We got 111 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.399 some golf I need to get to, including who I think is the best 112 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.360 golfer in the world right now, Yes, Scotti Scheffler. For the men's 113 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.440 side, the big story is at the PGA Championship, but it probably shouldn't 114 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.279 be. We'll talk of that on Exis and Bros. When we rolled on 115 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.639 right after this. Across the great state of Michigan, huge chere for the 116 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:54.759 Michigan High squad Letic Association. You can stay up to date on the latest 117 00:09:54.919 --> 00:10:01.759 from land Sing twenty four to seven at MHSAA dot com, at mhsa A 118 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:09.559 on Twitter and MHSAA on Facebook. 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Join us June thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield Country Club for fabulous 128 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:11.000 food, discoveryland for kids, and of course, elite women golfers from around 129 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.240 the world competing to help feed our neighbors. Get your tickets now admire LPGA 130 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:22.279 Classics dot com. At that point of the game, the challenge is basically 131 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.600 free, so could have been blocking. It was pretty close to being blocking. 132 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:31.000 Tucker did a good job of kind of holding this spot. Then you 133 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:31.879 never know what the video is going to say, so I didn't even really 134 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:35.120 wait for the video. It's a free challenge, like I said going into 135 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.799 the seventh inner. At the end of the seventh so tough play in a 136 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.080 close play and didn't go our way. No, I mean he's getting better 137 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.159 pitches to hit. I mean it's going to be the same answer every time 138 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.759 you get asked about when guys get better, they get better pitches to hit, 139 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.360 they don't miss him. I mean, he hit a ball a long 140 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.120 way in this park, working himself to a three to two count and got 141 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.799 a good pitch to hit. So better pitch that we get to hit, 142 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:15.960 the better we're gonna do. Aj Hinch after his team's loss in Arizona yesterday 143 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.200 six to four. We'll get to that coming up, because there's some thoughts 144 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:26.799 on the type of managing style that he has and why it may be attractive 145 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.720 slash supportive to a lot of his players. We'll get to that coming up. 146 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.919 And you think it's bad for Detroit, it's a lot worse for a 147 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.080 team that spends a lot more money, has a lot higher expectation, but 148 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:46.480 isn't getting it done. You could argue they are the biggest disappointment in baseball. 149 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.679 Would love your thoughts on that. Welcome back, x'es and bros. 150 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:56.000 Thirty six after the Hour. Barely got through the headlines because there are so 151 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.399 many good storylines. Yesterday, by the way, Guardians won to Detroit loses 152 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.679 six to four. Guardians win again. Will Brennan, Who exactly will Brennan? 153 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:11.879 A three run walk off homer of f Juan Durand to sweep the Twins. 154 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:18.039 Anybody see that coming? Anybody see what Cleveland has done? Did you 155 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:22.279 see that coming. Did you see a team that would be thirty and seventeen 156 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.960 at this stage of the year. Not me, No way. More wins 157 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.600 than Baltimore, would not have thought it. More wins than Texas, No 158 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:41.799 way, more wins than Atlanta. Call me surprised. More wins than San 159 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:48.919 Diego, Absolutely not. And yet Cleveland is there. How do you stand 160 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:54.559 the fact that San Diego is five hundred? Sorry, something's just popping into 161 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:56.600 my head. Ben's like, wait a minute, I thought this is where 162 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.679 we were going. Some things just popping in my head. Why the hell 163 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:11.960 are the San Diego Padres five hundred? You want to piste off fan base? 164 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:20.360 That's that should be it right there. Honestly, I mean I could 165 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:26.399 go into a couple other teams, but that's got to be it. They 166 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:33.240 spend way too much money to be doing that. I don't think they're the 167 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.679 biggest disappointment. We'll get to that here coming up on Exis and Bros. 168 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:43.639 Real quick. In case you missed it over the weekend. Xander Shaftley, 169 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:50.320 you like that. Xander Shaffley wins his first major. He does so by 170 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:58.440 laying claim to the twenty twenty four PGA Championship good for him. So a 171 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.840 hell of around and a hell of an eighteen, that's what it was. 172 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:11.600 The number eighteen he birdied to break the tie he had with Bryson Deshambo. 173 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:16.279 So he wins it a twenty one under par. They said this. This 174 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:22.200 surprised me a little bit. His two sixty three total is the lowest seventy 175 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.879 two hole score in a major championship. That surprised me a little bit. 176 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.480 He's not the best story in golf. The best story in golf is Nelly 177 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:41.159 Corda. You know, the same young lady who won the Mayer Classic at 178 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.399 Blainfield Country Club not too long ago, that Nelly Korda. I don't know 179 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:50.960 if she'll be there this year in the middle of June, June thirteenth through 180 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.440 the sixteenth, but if so, you get a chance to see one of 181 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:04.879 the greatest golfers in the world right now. She won in New Jersey yesterday 182 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:14.360 at Liberty International Golf Course by a stroke on eighteen, and has now won 183 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:21.600 six of her last seven tournaments that she's entered. She's held up a trophy 184 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.320 six times. In the last time she's teed it off. The other time 185 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:33.559 she finished seventh, So still a top ten finish. There are only four 186 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:41.639 women in the history of the LPGA Tour who have done what she has done 187 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:48.559 in a seven tournament stretch. Two of those women did it in the nineteen 188 00:16:48.759 --> 00:17:00.320 fifties. Okay, since nineteen eighty, her fourteen LPGA champion chips are the 189 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:11.960 most by an American golfer. That's how good she is. She's the real 190 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:18.880 deal. Not that Xander Schoffley isn't. This is not to take anything away 191 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.960 from him. You win a major, it's unbelievable, especially with how many 192 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:25.039 people, you know, if you're a golf fan out there, how many 193 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.240 people thought, Oh, he's going to fade, he's going to choke. 194 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.240 Pressure will be too much for him. Because remember at the Wells Fargo against 195 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:41.920 Rory McElroy, he did not hold the lead on the final day. I 196 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:47.480 thought Colin Morricala was going to I'm kind of sharing with you how often I'm 197 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:51.599 wrong. I guess. I thought Colin Morricala was going to be the guy. 198 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.279 He has been there, He's won a couple of pgh But I told 199 00:17:55.319 --> 00:18:03.559 you on Wednesday when I said to you the PGA Championship tease it up tomorrow. 200 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:07.559 This was on Wednesday, I said, this is a course that lays 201 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:14.400 out well for who did I say, Bryson Deshambo using his length, and 202 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.279 he finished a twenty under par one shot back. He put together a heck 203 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.279 of a Sunday, really fun to watch, all right. Let me get 204 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.160 to some baseball stuff, all right, because I'm sure not everybody plays golf 205 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.559 out there, although you know, I was excited to watch it, and 206 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.960 I hope you get an opportunity to go out to the Tenthaniel Myer Classic in 207 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:37.480 June. It's gonna be awesome. And like I said before, Nellie Korda 208 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.680 has won it before and it's a great cause for simply give all right, 209 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:48.960 Tigers lose, granted, aj Hinch you heard him, Ben played his comments 210 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:53.440 coming back. Somebody had asked us a couple of weeks ago the type of 211 00:18:53.759 --> 00:19:00.119 manager that he is. Here's what he does as well as any man that 212 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.880 you're a coach. I've ever seen Jim Caldwell pretty good with this from a 213 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:12.920 Detroit perspective. The communication that he delivers is vital and really impressive on what 214 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:21.960 he has done. Sometimes it's too easy. Sometimes it's way too easy to 215 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.039 think, well, all you got to do is communicate. Not everybody's a 216 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:33.319 great communicator. Not everybody's honest. They're so worried about feelings, this, 217 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.680 that and the other thing. What aj Hinch does as well as anybody is 218 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:42.480 communic communicate to his players. He tells them straight. Now, there's a 219 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:48.519 lot of head coaches and managers who are who tell it to you straight. 220 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:53.079 But are they keeping you in the loop along the way? Are they telling 221 00:19:53.119 --> 00:20:02.640 you going in about what they're witnessing, what you need to do, how 222 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:07.000 you stand. Aj Hinch has done that, and he does it very regularly. 223 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:15.000 He also does it with Javier Bias. Now, I know what you're 224 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:21.519 thinking, because I was thinking the same thing. Here's what he said. 225 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.359 Here's how he's handled Bias. We told you last week he's going to play 226 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.440 a lot, you know, we'll get him back on track, so on 227 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:34.200 and so forth. We've got to try and find a way to get more 228 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.880 out of him. No, at bats is not going to be the answer. 229 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:44.000 Has to keep getting his rhythm at his timing, hopefully get into a 230 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:47.359 position to produce offensively. That's the goal. That's what aj Hinch said about 231 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:55.960 Howvi or Bias BIA's response the other day and he had a huge day in 232 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:02.640 the thirteen to nothing win, big, big offensive day, and I know 233 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.720 it came in one game, and maybe that's not how you folks want to 234 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.079 see it. You want to say a guy who does it over a solid 235 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:19.079 stretch at time. So do I Okay, I really do. Bias said 236 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:30.119 this about Hinch's comments, Well, it means a lot that somebody's got his 237 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:37.759 back. Hinch has shown that he's willing to support Bias, and Bias is 238 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:44.240 saying, I appreciate what the manager is doing for me. He says he 239 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:47.839 knows how hard I've been working to be out there and to be back. 240 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:53.160 Feel better with my timing, feel better on my low back. I play 241 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:57.319 hard and not to make excuses about my body situation, but he knows if 242 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:02.079 I'm locked in, he's going to push me out there every day. We've 243 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:07.440 got really good communication. He's done a great job. Here's what you're probably 244 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:12.240 thinking thinking, because I thought the same thing when I read it. When 245 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:18.279 you're doing ninety three million dollars after this year, I think it's close to 246 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.359 seventy three. When you're doing ninety eight, sorry, ninety eight million dollars, 247 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:25.200 he's doing seventy three after this year. When you do that much, 248 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.440 what else the hell? What else is the manager you're going to do? 249 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.000 I thought the same thing. Yep, you got to play it. But 250 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:38.319 the comments we hear from people a lot, and I get it because it's 251 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:44.559 an emotional response. The comments you get is, this is a guy who's 252 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.599 hitting a buck eighty five, he's got one homer, he doesn't walk, 253 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:55.599 he's only got five. He strikes out a lot, twenty eight times into 254 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:03.759 thirty eight game stretch. So just cut him. I was at a wedding 255 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.599 Friday night, and that's what I got from people. How's it going good 256 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.480 to see you? Yeah? Yeah, listen, what are they gonna do 257 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:14.319 with Baiaz? You're gonna play him, is what you're gonna do? Oh 258 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:18.759 okay, well, why don't think just cut him? Here's why. I 259 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.720 mean, you owe a lot of money, man, I mean, would 260 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:25.920 you just throw a hundred million dollars out the window? Well? Ill it, 261 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.920 just got it? I said, just because you got it doesn't mean 262 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:33.759 you do it right. I mean, I don't think that's the logic that 263 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.319 you use. Well, if you want to win, you got to bench 264 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:45.599 him. They have benched him and they're at five hundred. Not that he's 265 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:52.960 the key, but he's one of them. I want everyday players. I've 266 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.599 said that time and time again. I'll say it at nauseum. I want 267 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:03.559 everyday players for the Tigers. However, one of those everyday players that I 268 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:11.319 want is at shortstop. I've told you before I didn't necessarily want how your 269 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:17.160 bias, but that's who they have. You've got to fix him. He's 270 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:25.599 got to be better. He himself has to make the greatest improvement. He's 271 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.759 the one who I know it's easy. Lay off the sliders. Okay, 272 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:32.200 it's not just sliders, folks. I mean he's been laid on fastballs too. 273 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.920 I mean it's not just one pitch. My favorite is Man, if 274 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:38.319 I were a pitch, I just throw him slider after slider after a slader. 275 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.160 Eventually he's going to recognize that and you're not going to do that. 276 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:47.319 The reason he's getting fooled on sliders is because of some of the other pitches. 277 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:55.000 But Ajh somebody who's complaining about aj Hinch and I understand that. I'm 278 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:56.599 not saying you don't have a right to. I think you do have a 279 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:03.680 right to. This team has underachieved so far. Doesn't mean they will for 280 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:10.799 the year, but so far they have. That falls on and he'd be 281 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:15.160 the first to admit it. The manager and the front office in my belief, 282 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:21.559 but the manager. But you're not able to put a lot of other 283 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:27.720 different lineups out there. You're you're not playing Zach McKinstry at shortstop every day. 284 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:33.880 You're not going to reconvert when so Perez back to the infield. You're 285 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.480 not putting Gee or Schella there. Colton Keith isn't going to play shortstop for 286 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:45.279 you. You are limited and what you can do. So the best thing 287 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:51.920 to do from a franchise standpoint is work with Biez and hope that he gets 288 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:56.079 better. There's a couple of things about him. To say what you want, 289 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:03.519 he'll work at it. I'm not saying he puts the most work in 290 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:11.759 of any Tiger, but it's not like he doesn't work. Nobody understands more 291 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:18.960 their struggles than the guy who's going through it, Javier Bias. But I 292 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.119 thought that was important to bring up because A. J. Hinch is a 293 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:27.039 really good communicator with his players. Now it hasn't been good enough. I'm 294 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.000 not making excuses for him, and I'm sure as hell not going to cover 295 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.960 for him. That's not what it's about. I just wanted to give you 296 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:38.839 an idea of what he does well as a manager, in addition to communication, 297 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.440 in addition to what I think is very good in game decisions. For 298 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:47.200 the most part. You don't like that he pulls pictures too early. Neither 299 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:52.440 do I. That's something that matters to me. That bothers me. Let 300 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.319 a guy keep going. He does have research that he falls back on. 301 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.119 He does have a guy like Chris Fetter that he relies on. But to 302 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:07.920 me, that move is all on the manager. So there's plenty not to 303 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:11.160 like. I'm just telling you some of the things that are a positive. 304 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.359 It could be worse. Sure, I don't care about other teams. I 305 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:23.680 don't care about the disappointment in certain other teams so far. You care about 306 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:32.559 Detroit. So what did Chicago's underachieving? So what did Houston's under five hundred? 307 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:36.200 I don't care that the Mets are under five hundred. It's spend it 308 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:40.759 as much money as they do. It doesn't matter to me that a team 309 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:44.160 that went to the World Series a year ago is under five hundred. In 310 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.640 Arizona. What matters to me and what matters to you our friends out there 311 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.279 listening throughout the great state of Michigan is the Detroit Tigers and what they're doing. 312 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.839 But there was a statement made by a member of some team's front office 313 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:10.200 that was pretty poignant, and they did it at a time that too many 314 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:14.000 people feel like, well, it's early in the season. Not anymore. 315 00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:23.759 It's not when you have front office personnel, general managers in this case coming 316 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:33.440 out and expressing concern or maybe a vote of confidence, which is oftentimes followed 317 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:41.519 by a but then you know it's not too late. We will explain what 318 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.079 we're talking about when we come back on x'es and Bros. And kind of 319 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:49.079 a funny little segment two that I want to get to from another baseball player 320 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:56.000 coming up. All that, plus, we could be seeing the makings of 321 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:02.160 the next fifty million dollar quarterback in the NFL. Well, a guy who 322 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:07.200 does not deserve it. I told you last week when Jared Goff signed his 323 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:12.759 extension and people were complaining about it, I said, it's the going rate 324 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:17.559 quote unquote, and you're going to see somebody top it. We'll think of 325 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:23.839 this team situation and their fan base. We'll explain coming up on Exus and 326 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.759 Bros. We get the second hour right around the corner on a Monday morning 327 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:32.880 throughout the great state of Michigan. Stay with us. 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