WEBVTT 1 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.120 Second hour of the program, Welcome Back, Exces and Brose Monday through Friday, 2 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.879 sixtill nine here across the great state of Michigan, I'm the Michigan Sports 3 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.120 Network. A little bit later on on the same station affiliates, it'll be 4 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:37.200 the Huge Show three till six, Bill Simonson with his huge opinions on a 5 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.200 lot of things that we're talking about. I said just before the break, 6 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:45.439 Victor Webbin Yama, unanimous Rookie of the Year, third spur to do it. 7 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.240 He is just the fourth player to ever record fifteen hundred points, two 8 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.640 hundred and fifty assists, and two hundred and fifty blocks in a season. 9 00:00:52.960 --> 00:01:00.520 Do you know the other three? One I've already mentioned. David Robinson he 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:07.560 did it twice, a Keem Elijah On arguably my favorite center, he did 11 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:14.159 it twice. And Kareem abdul Jabbar did it five times. I think Kareem 12 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:23.760 Abdul Jabbar is an underrated player forever. It seemed like he was the leading 13 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.040 scorer in the history of the league until Lebron James overtook him earlier this year. 14 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:34.519 When people talk about the greatest player of all time, what names do 15 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:42.200 you hear you just don't hear Kareem Abdul Jabbar enough. I say the same 16 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:47.640 thing about Ty Cobb and Pete Rose to a certain extent. Pete Rose one 17 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:53.159 of the greatest hitters of all time. Ty Cobb one of the greatest players 18 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.439 of all time, and people forget Ty Cobb was in the inaugural Hall of 19 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:07.120 Fame class. He received more votes than anybody. But you don't hear his 20 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:13.199 name being brought up as much. And I know, I know nobody saw 21 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.759 him show. Yeah, I get it, But you could go back and 22 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.800 look at numbers and look at statistics and look at articles and stuff, can't 23 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.840 you. Yes, phone number on the Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight three, 24 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.520 eight forty eight forty three. We'll get to what pat Riley had to 25 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.479 say about one of his stars here in a moment. Let's go to the 26 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.199 phones. Ben, who do we got weight yet? Mark? And saganaw 27 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:36.639 Hey, Mark, good morning to you, thanks for listening there. And 28 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:39.039 saganaw w lun one hundred point nine FM to Minte. What's going on? 29 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.039 Hey? Matt. Always loved hearing you at the Tiger broadcast and on your 30 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.960 show now currently, so great job. Thank you. I appreciate that. 31 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.680 Thank you, Mark, I had you were You're welcome. You were commenting 32 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.439 on a number of really interesting statistics. Here's one statistic that I would like 33 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:07.360 to know related to the Tigers and maybe other major league players, and that 34 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:14.479 would be, is there a statistics that miss hittable pitches, you know, 35 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:19.919 mistake pitches or or taters or whatever you want to call them, and the 36 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.360 number of times or that the hitter is able to drive those hitable pitches, 37 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:30.199 you know, with a with a strong exit velocity. Because what I see 38 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.439 and I just you know, I just watch games on TV and stuff. 39 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.639 I don't know. I'm not in the clubhousie, you know whatever, But 40 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:44.120 it seems to me like the Tigers are not barreling up pitches when other pitchers 41 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.479 make mistakes or give them something out over the middle of the plate. Is 42 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:55.240 there a statistic like that or not? There is a statistic for barrel percentage. 43 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:01.479 If that's what you're looking for, you can go into and get a 44 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.520 lot of you know, the different look you know this Mark. Anytime you're 45 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:12.319 dealing in baseball, you are dealing with all kinds of different numbers, right, 46 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.240 It's it's crazy. The amount and if you want to go hard hit 47 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.319 rate, that's up to you. I mean, it depends the hard hit 48 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.639 rate. The average hard hit rate in baseball right now is thirty nine percent. 49 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:31.839 The Tigers are at forty percent. Yeah, so they are tenth. 50 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:39.800 They are tenth right now, tenth in Major League Baseball in hard hit percentage. 51 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.000 If that means anything to you, you know, well, I was 52 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.800 listening to Craig Monroe and I was interested in this analysis yesterday in the game 53 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:53.439 because there were probably three or four times when, you know, Craig made 54 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:56.959 the comment that it looked like, you know, hitters in a couple of 55 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.759 different instances got pitches that they could you know, had a chance to really 56 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.519 bear a lop, and that it didn't look like the Tiger hitters were ready 57 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:12.279 or Craig didn't have an explanation for why they didn't you know, you know, 58 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.040 weren't aggressive on that particular pitch. You know, this problem with the 59 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:21.240 Tiger's hitting, it's not a new problem. They were not good last year, 60 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:26.079 I'm not sure the year before. And I think something is wrong or 61 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:31.759 that that goes beyond the you know, the normal stuff. Yeah, I 62 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:38.000 think and he would be the first to admit because he has done it himself 63 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:43.240 and been there, done that. It's the the hard thing about it is 64 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.639 you know you got a guy out there trying to get you out with Generally, 65 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:48.839 if you're in the major leagues, you got good stuff, right, 66 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:55.720 So guys are not always going to square things up. And that's the beauty 67 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:01.519 of baseball too. But also the frustrating part is that you know you're also 68 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:08.879 you get rewarded sometimes for bleeders. You get rewarded for you know, soft 69 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:13.040 hits too. So a lot of people will tell you oftentimes that evens out. 70 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.279 I think that and thanks to the phone call Mark, I think a 71 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.319 lot of that has to do with approach. What is your approach in the 72 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:24.839 batter's box? Where are you trying to go with certain pitches? Look, 73 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:28.920 you could say what you want about guys like Miguel Cabrera in the past, 74 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.040 Not that I sit there and advocate to keep him around as a player, 75 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:40.120 but what he did and what players told me they learned from Miguel Cabrera and 76 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:45.040 his approach in batting practice was everything was to write and write center to start. 77 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:48.720 How many times are guys trying to pull the ball? I don't know 78 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.839 the answer to this, by the way, because you know these are up 79 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:56.399 to the individual. But are how many times are you trying to pull the 80 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.279 ball? How many times are you getting your site set on center left center 81 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:06.199 to keep yourself true and back a little bit? Those are the things, 82 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:12.480 and I'm sure there's a I'll guarantee you you know. They have hitter meetings 83 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:16.519 every day, by the way. Every day they go out there and they 84 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.920 try to do you know, figure out a game plan dependent on the pitcher. 85 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:25.079 So what they're going to do. It's it's about ten twelve minutes, 86 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.519 okay, So they go out, players will show up, they'll take some 87 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.000 early BP. You know. The first bus is usually for a six forty 88 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.920 or seven o'clock game at noon. You'll see the managers and coaches all on 89 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:43.600 that bus. You'll see some players on that bus. They'll get there, 90 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:48.319 they'll stretch, they will get a lift in, you know, get the 91 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:54.920 heart rate up, and they will take some early BP, maybe some defensive 92 00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:01.560 play out there. Then they'll come in. Other team go to their it 93 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.759 gets their batting practice, and Detroit will go in and they'll they'll look at 94 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.079 film a little bit. Everybody's got their own individual iPad. They can look 95 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.480 at that, but they'll talk about They'll have a hitters meeting. Pitchers and 96 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:18.040 catchers get together. The starter gets together with a catcher and they go over 97 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:24.240 the scouting report. How do we want to attack certain pitchers or certain batters? 98 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.000 While the batters are looking at pitching reports, how are we going to 99 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:37.440 deal with Tristan McKenzie, whoever they're whoever they may be facing. So Logan 100 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.320 Allen is throwing for Cleveland here tonight, the hitters will make sure they go 101 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:46.000 over all the things that Logan Allen, his tendencies and what he does. 102 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:52.759 So there is an approach. My point is they're preaching and approach. How 103 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.759 many times are players, depending on their situation one in two, two and 104 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.879 one, three and one, whatever, How many times are they keeping that 105 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:05.960 approach in the box? Are they staying true to it? So that's the 106 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.919 thing that I can't necessarily tell because I don't know what their meeting is. 107 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.960 I used to know, being around the team every day and talking to different 108 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.720 players, Well, this is what we want to do against a guy like 109 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:24.919 that? Give you a better idea for the broadcast. Not being with them, 110 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.639 I don't know what those approaches would be, but I would find it 111 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.399 hard to believe that the approach would be with what they're doing right now. 112 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.440 They're just not able to execute it. Sometimes, just sometimes I get tired 113 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.639 of the tip the cap, but sometimes it's true. 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The Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty 141 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.120 three. The text is Sports Radio twenty one thousand. I want to get 142 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.200 to what pat Riley said about one of his best players and how it becomes 143 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.639 a little bit more refreshing. He says what many of us think. But 144 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.320 first I think we got a text, right, Ben, we got a 145 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.799 text. Yeah, that's right, Okay, fire Away says, I can 146 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.480 give you one from each sport who they don't talk about enough about, right 147 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:43.960 and great Matt Sundean, Charles Barkley, Robin Youu, and Troy Aikman. 148 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.720 Well, Troy Eigman's a Hall of Famer, so is Robin Yunt. Okay. 149 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.360 Yeah, Look, just because in the Hall of Fame doesn't mean that 150 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.480 they're not underrated. Because I brought up Ty Cobb, so that's a really 151 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:03.480 good point out. Kareem at bul Jabbar I liked those. Yeah, I 152 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.919 would buy that. I would say I would I think in baseball, I 153 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:13.600 think Stan Musual is probably one of the biggest underrated players of all time. 154 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.639 Now, he played in a great baseball town. Saint Louis is a phenomenal 155 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.360 arguably the best baseball town in America. If he played in New York or 156 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.759 Boston, I mean it would be he would be Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio 157 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:33.879 for sure. Guy won three MVPs in the National League, fourth on the 158 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.519 all time MLB hits list at one point. It's a twenty time All Star. 159 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:46.279 So I would say Stan Musual is one of them. Charles Barkley is 160 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.759 a good one because you know, I think he gets labeled as the guy 161 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:56.200 who didn't win a championship. I would argue besides Kareem Abdul Jabbar, I 162 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:03.480 would say Moses Malone, all time All Star, three time League MVP, 163 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:09.799 He was the Finals MVP, averaged a double double for his career. You 164 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:16.000 know the problem is people looked at Jabbar and Russell and Chamberlain back then. 165 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:26.879 The other thing about Moses Malone is if you look at his the number of 166 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:33.200 offensive rebounds, he was an absolute beast. These are the guys. It's 167 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:39.799 a great conversation. I appreciate that info, especially with Robin Yon. I 168 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.759 loved Robin. I thought he's a great player. But if you look at 169 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.720 Moses Malone and you see what he did from an offensive rebounding standpoint, it's 170 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:58.519 it's incredible how dominant of a player he could be this guy historically. You 171 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.200 know, look at what he's He led the league in rebounding six times, 172 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.879 and he did it five times in a row. He averaged it's seventeen and 173 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.879 a half boards, fifteen boards, fifteen boards, fifteen boards, thirteen and 174 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:20.840 a half thirteen rebounds and the offensive rebounding. It's really impressive. I'm not 175 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:30.039 sure. I mean, there are certain records that will never be broken, 176 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.840 and I think you know, we've brought up a number of them on the 177 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:39.360 show in the past. I've said, Nolan Ryan's strikeout, so it'll just 178 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:46.639 never be touched. Will Chamberlain's rebounding effort will never be touched. Twenty three, 179 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:52.919 nine and twenty four rebounds. It's incredible. He averaged twenty three rebounds 180 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:54.320 per game in his career. Think about that for a moment. You can 181 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.519 talk about the era all you want, you talk about how big guys were 182 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:00.399 and so on and so forth. And even though Bill Russell is much shorter 183 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:06.279 than Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell averaged almost twenty five rebounds per game in his 184 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:14.879 career. But there are certain I think there are certain things that will never 185 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:25.600 be broken. I think Moses Malone has one of those records. When we 186 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.679 get caught up in Michael Jordan and Lebron James and Steph Curry with his threes, 187 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.200 I get it, totally understand it. But there are certain things that 188 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:40.320 Moses Malone has done in his career, and I think certain things that a 189 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:48.440 guy like a Keem Elijah On has done in his career number of blocks and 190 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:55.279 thirty just incredible. Those are certain things that you look at you go, 191 00:16:55.320 --> 00:17:00.559 Okay, it's just not going to be broken. Malone's in that conversation he 192 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:08.920 is, He's in that conversation with rebounds, offensive rebounds. So those those 193 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:12.519 those are good ones. I like that a lot. I really appreciate that. 194 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:21.359 That's that's fun to to look back on. It really is. It's 195 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:26.839 a it's a good time for it's a good way for people, I think, 196 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:33.880 to tell younger people who may not have seen certain players about it. 197 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.640 So I brought up stam Muse. Frank Robinson's another really good one. Just 198 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:42.920 an amazing player, pretty damn good manager two at times, but an amazing 199 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.680 player. You know, you're talking about winning the MVP in both leagues, 200 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:55.319 Triple crown winner, twelve time All Star. Awesome. Now, is he 201 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:00.920 or was he a guy like Ken Griffy Jr. Uh? Probably not. 202 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.880 I mean Ken Griffy Junior. I think, at least in my era, 203 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.920 one of the greatest of all time. You win Tim Gold Gloves, you 204 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.960 hit six hundred and thirty homers, You're an All Star thirteen times. Those 205 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:18.880 are tough numbers to match. Our phone, I'm on the Meyer hotline eight 206 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:23.279 sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. That's eight six six eight 207 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:27.200 three eight forty eight forty three. You could text Sports Radio to twenty one 208 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:33.960 thousand. Now there are I said, I want to, I want to 209 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.880 tease the pat Riley story here, but we're getting close to a break, 210 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.480 so I want to make sure it give it its just due, because I 211 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:47.359 think it's a pretty cool story. Whether or not you like pat Riley, 212 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.920 I like how he has handled this situation right now with one of his stars 213 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:59.160 so I promise we will get to that at at seven thirty five. I 214 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:00.880 do wanted to ask you this, Ben, I want your opinion on this. 215 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:07.559 You've seen the City Connect jerseys or uniforms for the Tigers, have you 216 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.680 not? Yeah? Yes, I have? Okay, and you're a young 217 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.440 guy, yep. Do you like them? I do? And if why, 218 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.720 I don't know. I just they're different and I like the colors. 219 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:30.200 Yeah, this is so. This is the difference. You know. I've 220 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.720 tried as hard as I can to try and evolve as much as possible. 221 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.559 Take people like like Ben, and they're thinking they're different. I think that's 222 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:47.920 the biggest difference between certain generations. I'm not saying ours. I'm saying in 223 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.559 certain generations, it's not an unwillingness or a willingness to change. It's one 224 00:19:52.599 --> 00:20:02.759 wants to be different. The other wants to be traditional. I can't stand 225 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:07.920 them now. I'm also the same guy who doesn't like the Lions alternatives. 226 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:17.559 I like tradition. I like the fact that there are certain things you don't 227 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:23.440 have to mess with, and for me, the Tigers home uniform is one 228 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:34.039 thing you do not mess with. What was funny about this funny or disappointing. 229 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.599 Is you get Ryan Gustuson, who's not even from here. Okay, 230 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.160 you get a guy like this, who's you know, the right hand man 231 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:56.119 to Chris Ilic and he gives you this BS that they've tried to combine traditional 232 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:03.599 and new. We didn't take this task lightly. We wanted to achieve connecting 233 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:10.640 the city, telling the story the resurgence, and we wanted to combine traditional 234 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:18.119 baseball and something new. Where's the tradition, Give me the tradition in the 235 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:23.559 city, connect uniform, it's nowhere to be found. We'll get more too 236 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.160 that and what pat Riley had to say about one of his starts when we 237 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.400 come back on Exis and Bros. After this, Bill Simonson here from my 238 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.920 good friend Josh Garvey. 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Get to the pat 256 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.920 Riley comment about one of his stars we had just mentioned before the break about 257 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:30.440 the Tigers trying to strike a balance with the new City connect uniforms and how 258 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:38.920 their team president, not Scott Harris, but with Ryan Gustafson, who is 259 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:45.559 the president and CEO of Village Sports and Entertainment, said we wanted to strike 260 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.319 a balance between tradition doing something new and unique. Give me, where's the 261 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:55.559 tradition. Whether you like him or not, don't give me that line that 262 00:23:55.680 --> 00:24:00.440 it's tradition and something new and exciting. It says Detroit a cross the top. 263 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:06.000 That's not traditional. That's basic. It says motor City on the front 264 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:12.720 of the jersey. That's not traditional. Others have done that. The colors 265 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:19.200 aren't traditional. On the side of the helmet is nineteen. It's a VIN 266 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.079 number of a car nineteen oh one, which is when the team was founded, 267 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:29.759 and then followed by the numbers of their championships thirty five, forty five, 268 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.640 sixty eight, eighty four. I guess that's a little traditional tradition for 269 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.759 the Tigers is the English D. There's nowhere on the English D. If 270 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.319 you wanted to put the English D in Detroit, I get that, but 271 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:48.680 they didn't, so don't look again. You like them, fine, that's 272 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.480 okay. Just don't feed me this. Don't feed me the line that it's 273 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.759 you combined tradition and something new and exciting. I mean, you're doing something 274 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.960 to sell merchandise, you're doing something because Major League wants it, You're doing 275 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.599 something because Nike wants it. And you're doing something and saying something that isn't 276 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:11.480 true. There's no tradition. There was theren't even the Tiger's colors for crying 277 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:18.000 out loud. Anyway. The phone number on the Meyer hotline eight sixty six 278 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.240 eight three, eight forty eight forty three, or you can text the program 279 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:27.839 Tech Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Miami Heat were eliminated in the playoffs 280 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.240 right by the Boston Celtics and what turned out to be a pretty good series. 281 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:40.599 It's it was the same situation a year ago in which the tables were 282 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:48.599 reversed, though, and Miami eliminated Boston in seven games. So the Celtics 283 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:56.799 win, they advance, and they're into the Eastern Conference Finals where they're going 284 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:04.839 to play the Cleveland Cavaliers. A year ago. The biggest reason Miami advanced 285 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:15.880 to the NBA Finals is the stellar play of one Jimmy Butler considered a really 286 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:26.039 good player, fair enough, okay, makes big shots. His issue is 287 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:37.680 oftentimes he's not available. Hard to win with a star if you're not available. 288 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:45.720 Jimmy Butler said over the weekend, if I was playing Boston, would 289 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:53.119 be at home. Pat Riley, who runs the Heat, didn't like that 290 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:57.839 very much. Here's what he said. You know, for him to say 291 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:03.680 that, you know, I thought, is that Jimmy trolling or is that 292 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:10.799 Jimmy sirious? You know, if you're not on the court playing against Boston, 293 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:14.240 around the court playing against New York next, you should keep your mouth 294 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:22.519 shut and your criticism of those teams love that. Don't kid yourself. You 295 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.839 were thinking the same thing. You're not even available. Matter of fact, 296 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:32.759 he wasn't even with the team on the road. You're not available, and 297 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:36.279 you're spouting off like that. By the way, just for the record, 298 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.839 they met three times during the regular season. Butler played in two games. 299 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:48.240 He was three for eleven for fourteen points in a loss, scored seventeen points 300 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.839 in another loss. Was inactive for the third meeting, in which Miami lost 301 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:59.039 as well. So here's a guy who wasn't available for any of the playoff 302 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:03.480 games this year. Underperformed in two of the games he played against that team 303 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:11.039 in two losses, and wasn't available in the third meeting in which his team 304 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.319 lost. And he's spouting off he could do it from the standpoint that a 305 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:22.359 year ago he was really good. A year ago he was the man against 306 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:29.599 Boston. But he's doing it at a time that is kind of iffy right 307 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:34.119 now if he from the standpoint of this, Jimmy Butler is owed forty nine 308 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:41.759 million dollars for next season. The following season, he's got a player option 309 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:52.839 at fifty two and a half million dollars. When the twenty twenty four twenty 310 00:28:52.960 --> 00:29:02.400 twenty five season begins next year, he'll be thirty five. That's a lot 311 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:11.319 of money for a guy who this past season played to the tune of twenty 312 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:18.039 one points per game. Now, would you take twenty one points per game 313 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:23.319 to a certain extent, I suppose you would. Would you do it for 314 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:32.319 that kind of money? I don't think so. Played sixty of the eighty 315 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:36.880 two games a year ago, sixty four games a year ago, two years 316 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:41.319 ago, fifty seven games, fifty two fifty. He's not playing every game. 317 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.079 Matter of fact, he's only played every game once in his career. 318 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:52.920 Take it further, he has played more than seventy games twice in his career. 319 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.799 And I'm not trying to take anything away from h because I think he's 320 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:00.640 a really good player. I don't think if you're a five time All Defensive 321 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.680 Team member, a five time All NBA player, a six time All Star 322 00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:10.319 without being a hell of a player. He's been a hell of a player. 323 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:12.079 I don't think he's all a famer, but I think he's been a 324 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.920 hell of a player. He's not available very often. Where are the talk 325 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:23.400 show hosts now? They've said it about Mike Trout and others. How about 326 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:33.599 this twice in his career he has played seventy games or more. Now, 327 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.920 In fairness to Jimmy Butler, I always try to see both sides of things. 328 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.720 I don't toll a line. I'm just trying to see both sides of 329 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:45.400 things. How much of that was load management? I don't know. You 330 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:55.519 know, in twenty seventeen with Chicago, he's playing seventy six games. Did 331 00:30:55.559 --> 00:31:06.079 he miss six games because of load management? Perhaps that's a possibility. To 332 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:11.480 me, it's not enough. It's a lot of money to spend on a 333 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:18.480 dude who's not always available. Forty nine million dollars next year for a guy 334 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:25.079 who's gonna be thirty five and has those types of numbers. Back to the 335 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.839 phone lines and the Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight 336 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.440 forty three. Then who do we got waiting for? We got Freddy on 337 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:36.240 the line. Oh hey Freddy, Oh worry man, Good morning. What's 338 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:40.480 going on? Good buddy? What's up? Are good? Thanks? I'm 339 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.839 dropping off my kids, just dropping off my kids to school and going golfing. 340 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:48.880 So oh, I love it for it too beautiful. So you know, 341 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:55.440 I had a couple of comments both you just spoke about the MotorCity connect 342 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:00.640 jerseys. I haven't seen them fully, but I understand and I heard enough 343 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:06.480 about them. You know, when I kept hearing Motor City Connected jerseys, 344 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.400 you know what I was thinking. I was thinking that the lion or the 345 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:15.359 tigers were making a jersey with all the teams on them. That's kind of 346 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:17.960 what the way I took it, And I thought that would have been more 347 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.359 cooler, maybe with a jersey with you know, all the wings of the 348 00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:28.759 lions and the pistons kind of connect the city. Right, Why would you 349 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:31.480 do that. I don't know why they would do that. I'm just saying 350 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.480 I just I think they would. I think that would be kind of cool, 351 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:39.440 kind of connect the city and the teams together baseball, you know, 352 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:44.480 you know there's baseball is in between all the sports. I think I just 353 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:47.039 think I just think that would have been more cool. I know one thing, 354 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.519 the colors I don't like. I don't get the colors purple or whatever 355 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.240 whatever the league plants. I don't get the color. But I just thought 356 00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:59.480 that would have been cool. With the Motor City connect. That's kind of 357 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:01.440 the way I took it was gonna be. But anyways, but uh, 358 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:07.240 the pat Riley thing, you know, it's it's first of all, it's 359 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:13.200 fine. It's wild to see pat Riley when when you grew up watching the 360 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:17.200 Pistons in the mid eighties and pat Riley and Chuck Daily were to two stars 361 00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:22.359 as coaches and pet Rally is still around. Chuck Dailey's been long to long 362 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.759 gone, you know, fifteen sixteen years. It's just crazy to think. 363 00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:30.799 But you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be the old man on 364 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.680 to get off my long kind of guy. But you know, I'm gonna 365 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.680 care anxiety. But what guys like with pat Riley, when they're gone that 366 00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:45.759 generation, it's gonna get worse and worse because he holds these players accountable. 367 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:52.039 Now, I didn't see to the fairness, I didn't see what the player 368 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:58.160 said. I didn't hear what you what you said he did. But pe 369 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.519 Rowley's old school. He holds his as accountable. These players are making so 370 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.360 much money that that skipping the playoff games don't mean anything to them anymore. 371 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:13.239 That's that's just wild to me. I mean, I can get maybe maybe 372 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.840 skipping a regular season game, which I don't even like, what a playoff 373 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:22.239 game and I see these guys jumping around on the sidelines, high fiving their 374 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.639 teammates and stuff like that. To me, that absolutely that that just just 375 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:32.559 I hate it and it turns me completely off. And you know, I 376 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:36.519 don't want to be that guy. But I'm telling you, if guys like 377 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:40.719 pat Riley and that generation starts going, uh, sports and society's gonna start 378 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.480 going. And I'm glad pett Riley said what he said, because most wouldn't 379 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.440 because they'd be afraid to lose their job or or be made fun of on 380 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:54.679 social media. So that's great. I'm with you on that. That's a 381 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:59.119 that's a good take. Thanks for to hit him straight today. Little envious 382 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:01.039 of you? Yeah, that's look. Pat Riley can say it because he's 383 00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:06.039 the guy who controls it, but I think he would have said it no 384 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.000 matter what I mean, there are certain people that are securing their jobs. 385 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:14.000 I think it's is it a fear you don't want to alienate a player. 386 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:19.920 I'm sure here's what critics would say. Critics would say, you could alienate 387 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:24.840 Jimmy Butler, and you could alienate future free agents or future players that they're 388 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:29.440 afraid that you'd call them out. I guess my response to that would be, 389 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.280 I don't know if I want those players if they can't take it. 390 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.880 I don't think I want those players if they're that sensitive. We just brought 391 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.760 this up the other day, just yesterday, remember the comment from David Pasternak 392 00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:50.599 for the Boston Bruins. He owned it. His coach Jim Montgomery called him 393 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:55.039 out after Game six. He said, we need our best players to be 394 00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:01.000 their best. We've gotten that from Brad Marshan, but we need more from 395 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:07.079 pasta his nickname. Pasternak was asked about it. He said, I agree. 396 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.880 If I was the coach, i'd feel the same thing. And then 397 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.119 he goes out, what does he do? Scores the game winner in overtime. 398 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:22.800 It's pretty cool. That's it. He didn't sulk, He didn't go 399 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:28.039 in the corner and suck his thumb. He didn't go to a writer who 400 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.320 he trusts and said, I want you to write about him, and this 401 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:34.559 is how bad the coach has been and this is why he's losing the room, 402 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:36.440 and so on and so forth. No, he didn't do any of 403 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:44.079 that. He took it and agreed with it because the coach was right, 404 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:52.719 and pat Riley's right. It's not like Jimmy Butler only missed one game. 405 00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:01.440 It's not like Jimmy Butler was a guy who came out and did all the 406 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:12.559 things right before getting hurt. He missed a ton of time, and there's 407 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:16.559 really no reason for him to spout off, like what's the point. First 408 00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:22.440 of all, we don't know that's true that Boston would be home, because 409 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.639 your numbers this year against them were nothing special. In fact, there's subpar. 410 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:36.440 If you're going to use last year as a example on why he could 411 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:39.440 do it, I could use this year's example of why he couldn't. So 412 00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:46.559 we don't know. So just making that bravado comment to me is pointless. 413 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:53.679 You should be applauding pat Riley. There's something about humility that is lacking at 414 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:01.000 times in our society, and sports can hunt. I think that's what I 415 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:07.320 love as much about sports as anything else, is that when you think you've 416 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:13.719 got something figured out, boom, the sports gods come in and make sure 417 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:17.800 you have more to learn. Jimmy Butler's got more to learn now. As 418 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:24.920 far as Freddy's take on the New City Connect uniforms, I don't think there's 419 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:30.360 any purple in the uniforms. I think it's black and blue. It's similar 420 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:36.079 to the Lions. I think it's a noble idea of what you're saying to 421 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.280 have. You know, all the teams on there in some representative. But 422 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:46.119 I would ask you this, If you're the Tigers, why would you want 423 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:54.159 another team's logo on your uniform? Of course your logo is not even on 424 00:38:54.199 --> 00:39:00.239 the damn uniform. You're English, d that I can tell. Why'd you 425 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.480 want to put? For example, like I could almost see the Red Wings 426 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:07.320 because the owner owns both teams. Why would you want the Pistons who won 427 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:15.760 fourteen games on your uniform? Why would you want the Lions on your uniform? 428 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.119 I mean, you're the Tigers. It's not like the other teams are 429 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:25.039 doing that in their alternate unis for your team, you know what I'm saying. 430 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:29.960 I mean, not not to sound too selfish there, but just to 431 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.639 me, it's a little it's a little much. I mean, it's a 432 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:42.760 novel idea never heard of it, which is pretty cool, but I just 433 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:47.000 don't buy it, and I probably wouldn't do it either. If you want, 434 00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:51.239 you know, the Motor City stuff, I'm all for it, right, 435 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:55.679 that's our nickname. I get it. Couldn't you have that in English 436 00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:00.880 form? Could you have put that in instead? You know, obviously the 437 00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:02.480 English D is not part of it, but could you have it in the 438 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.559 English lettering similar to that of the English D. Do you have to have 439 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:12.920 Detroit across your cap when you got Motor City across your chest? Can't you 440 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:19.199 keep the English D but in a different color that matches the uniforms? Did 441 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.639 you have to go that drastic? Again? I always put myself in this 442 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:28.159 situation. You're in a conference room, a big conference room at Comerica Park 443 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:35.599 and your brainstorming ideas and people are on that table thought, Yeah, let's 444 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:45.559 have different colors, different font different words, different logo than anything we have. 445 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:54.119 And then let's have the president come out and say we're combining tradition with 446 00:40:54.239 --> 00:41:02.280 a new look. Where's the tradition? Don't phoebe that there's nothing traditional about 447 00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:09.880 that? Meyer Hotline eighty sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three the 448 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:15.039 text line Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. 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