WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.479 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.280 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football for everybody, I think this 6 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.679 is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. 7 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.799 Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same thing 8 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.759 for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play 9 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:56.359 to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a 10 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.840 great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if you 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.680 don't have any wins. Do you go play to win? When you start 12 00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:18.000 telling me it doesn't matter if you retire, get out for the matters Thursday 13 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:23.040 morning on Exues and Bros. We're with you Monday through Friday from six until 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:25.959 nine throughout the great state of Michigan. Ben is our producer. I'm Matt 15 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.120 Sheppard. Glad you're with us. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your Wednesday. 16 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.120 The Meyer Hotline is always open for you anything that might be on your 17 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.920 mind in the world of sports. We want to talk about at eight six 18 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.400 six, eight three eight forty eight forty three. You can always text the 19 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:52.159 program too. The text is sports Radio to twenty one thousand. Tiger split 20 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.040 a double dip with Pittsburgh yesterday. You know that by now they shut out 21 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.799 the Pirates eight zip. Matt Verlin continues to rule man. He has been 22 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.000 really impressive. Three run homer and four RBIs in the first game. Turk 23 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:14.919 Schooble more impressive, probably the most impressive Tigers so far, No probably about 24 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:20.039 it. He is incredible, improving to seven and one, toss seven scoreless 25 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.080 innings, allowed just three hits, struck out eight. He is the odds 26 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:29.919 on favorite from what I saw yesterday to win the American League. Say young, 27 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:36.319 long, long, long way to go. But shows you what nationally 28 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:42.479 people think of Trek's scouble, and they should. He's got everything you could 29 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:50.120 possibly want in his arsenal. So he strikes out eight, scatters three hits, 30 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:57.599 lasted seven innings through ninety three pitches. Couldn't help. But wonder a 31 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:05.599 little bit how Tiger fans we're feeling when Trek Scougle was pulled. Now Detroit 32 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:10.520 had a comfortable lead, so it probably didn't matter to you when they pulled 33 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.759 him. It was ate nothing when the game ended, it was ate nothing. 34 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.599 But watching Baltimore a little bit last night and you flip back and forth. 35 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:30.680 Baltimore's really good. I really like their team. But Corbyn Burns is 36 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:38.719 pitching for the Baltimore Orioles, a guy who I mean, he's got a 37 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:47.479 solid track record. They're playing Boston Division game and Corbyn Burns is out there, 38 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:57.039 keeps himself in, talks himself into staying in the game, and in 39 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:04.479 the seventh inning and he through one hundred eight pitches on the night he got 40 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.599 the win. So he's five and two, Baltimore gets the win. They're 41 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:14.479 thirty five and nineteen. They're really good. Gunner Henderson went yard yet again, 42 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.360 so he ties the major league lead in home runs. Who's got more 43 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.480 home runs, Gunner Henderson or Aaron Judge. Right, it's Gunner Henderson, 44 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:30.879 the twenty two year old second round pick out of high school. Now, 45 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.839 before people start to go, see that's why you should bring up Max Clark, 46 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.399 Gunner Henderson, what he did in the miners a little different. Okay, 47 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:46.120 so you get some you get some seasoning there. But Corman Burns talked 48 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:53.160 himself into it, talked to his manager, talked to his coaches. He's 49 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.959 like, you know what, I want to stay in this game. I'm 50 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.439 in this game. People love that stuff backfires, but I love it too. 51 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.879 One hundred and eight pitches and we make it sound like that's a huge 52 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:12.160 deal when it never used to be. But it never used to be was 53 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:18.040 a long long time ago. So here's what I was thinking while I was 54 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:31.639 watching this last night. We always refer to the past with certain statistics that 55 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:43.079 fit our narrative, but yet we want to adapt to the new analytics and 56 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:48.560 the various things that allow what we think athletes or why we think athletes are 57 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:58.000 better today than before. We really want to have it both ways. And 58 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:04.759 I don't think I don't think you're alone in that, because I'll take myself 59 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:11.879 up. I feel the same way I do. But I hear this all 60 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.240 the time. You know, guys are bigger, stronger, faster. Yeah, 61 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:21.560 okay, then why aren't they doing Why aren't they doing what these guys 62 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:30.879 used to do. I'm a little confused at that. I'm a little confused 63 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:39.600 at why we think today's athletes are so much better, so much bigger, 64 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.120 so much stronger. And by the way, I do believe they I do 65 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:47.720 believe they are, but they can't do what some of those guys did in 66 00:06:47.720 --> 00:07:00.199 the past. I'll give you an example. Mickey Lulich in nineteen seventy one 67 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:14.600 started forty five games, one twenty five of them and completed twenty nine. 68 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.680 In other words, he completed more games than most guys will start this year. 69 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:30.279 That's impressive, don't you think. Okay, well, Mickey Lolich's and 70 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.160 he was a horse. There's no doubt that he was one of the more 71 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:43.519 durable pitchers you could find. But when you look at his game log and 72 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:48.839 you see not just the innings pitched, but the number of pitches, you'll 73 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:56.079 be blown away at how often he threw a hundred pitches in a game. 74 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:09.160 It's amazing. And yet I'll rave about Corbyn Burns, not to take anything 75 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.600 away from Corbin Burns, because Corbyn Burns was really impressive. He really was. 76 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.759 You would want to see that out of your picture, wouldn't you. 77 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:30.160 Hell yeah, you would. Seth Lugo Kansas City Royals. Here's a guy 78 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.519 who I mean, not many people thought he would be in the situation that 79 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.919 he is in right now with Kansas City. Not many people thought Kansas City 80 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.120 would be for crying out loud. I mean, Kansas City is a team 81 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.600 that was dreadful, couldn't score a year ago. They just beat Minnesota six 82 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.000 to one. They banged out ten hits. Bobby with Junior continues to do 83 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.519 what he does. Salvador Perez finds the fountain of youth Seth Lugo yesterday one 84 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:05.399 hundred pitches in the victory over Minnesota. Now, it took him six innies 85 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.120 to do it, but he got to win. He's nine and one. 86 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.720 I bring this up only to make sure when you're having that conversation with your 87 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.039 buddies and they're like, oh, school is definitely going to get the cy 88 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.840 young as of right now, bring up Seth Lugo and how good he's been. 89 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:30.120 And when you have that conversation with your buddies and they say, well, 90 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.200 you got to get him out of there after ninety five pitches. I 91 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.200 don't know many guys who would say that, but you could have run into 92 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.320 that conversation. Bring up Seth Lugo one hundred pitches. Bring up Corbin Burns 93 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.919 one hundred and eight pitches. It's not that uncommon. Yes, unfortunately it 94 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.759 is our phone number on the Myer hotline eight six six eight three eight forty 95 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.080 eight forty three. Hello, hockey game last night. We'll get to that. 96 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:01.000 A lot more football to discuss, including are the lionsster Is the Lions 97 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.679 roster a top five roster? One website says no. We'll get into that 98 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.399 as we rolled on on a Thursday morning on Exus and Bros. After this 99 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.519 huge Here for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. You can stay up to 100 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:20.440 date on the latest from Lansing twenty four to seven at MHSAA dot com, 101 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:30.120 at MHSA on Twitter and MHSA on Facebook. 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Join us June thirteenth through the sixteenth at Blakefield Country 111 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.320 Club for fabulous food, discoveryland for kids, and of course, elite women 112 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.080 golfers from around the world competing to help feed our neighbors. Get your tickets 113 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:43.159 now at Meyer LPGA Classic dot com. Chris, your team comes out pretty 114 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.559 flat. You're down to nothing, you don't have a shaw eight minutes in. 115 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.879 What are you thinking on the bench and what changed for your group? 116 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.720 I was thinking it was going to be long night and it didn't look very 117 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.279 good. We you know, yeah, things weren't going our way. They 118 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:11.000 looked much sharper making plays and I'm not sure which line it was the kind 119 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:15.240 of got things going. Obviously, the big turning point was the McLeod goal, 120 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.000 but you know, you know, it wasn't the start. But you've 121 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:26.159 seen this right through the series where both teams have absolutely dominated and then the 122 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.279 other team is dominated like it's been back and forth, and you know, 123 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.519 we didn't have our start, and which is you know, hard to overcome 124 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.000 because you know you're down to nothing in a game like this, it's hard 125 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.559 to overcome. But you know, I think we just got back to where 126 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.720 we were supposed to be playing. You know, I think a lot of 127 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.240 it had to do with maybe the turnovers at the blue line where we weren't 128 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.240 getting pucks in deeper and they were just quick transition and then we're just, 129 00:12:52.399 --> 00:13:07.480 yeah, we're always in a bad position for that next shift. That's Chris 130 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.480 not Block, the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers. This is his first 131 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:20.000 playoffs because this is his first year. Actually one of the first changes among 132 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:26.200 the NHL Caroseol earlier this year. No Block, who was a junior's coach 133 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.919 of Conor McDavid, goes to Edmonton. McDavid takes off, the Oilers take 134 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.159 off and they're playing in the Western Conference finals. Team things up last night 135 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.000 for his team by making a few lineup changes and it paid off as they 136 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.840 win five to two. They scored five on answer to nothing Dallas early on 137 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.840 and you're thinking, oh, stars, better team, and here we go 138 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.240 and they're going to go back home up three games to one with a chance 139 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.039 to close it out until Edmonton responded. And that's part of being a really 140 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:07.480 good head coach, having a feel for what your team needs in that type 141 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:16.399 of situation, and it doesn't always work out. But he made the changes. 142 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.120 He felt it was really important. He did say this. He says, 143 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:24.799 there's not a decision I make without consulting five to twelve people. He's 144 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.120 got the final say, but he does have to talk to his staff. 145 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.519 He feels like that was important. He said, last night, I was 146 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.159 talking with Paul Coffee on the phone and we decided what we wanted to do. 147 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.919 Still hadn't made the decision that night. We made the decision this morning. 148 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.320 That was in regards to some of the changes. He reinserts Corey Perry 149 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:52.039 and Ryan McLeod for Warren Fogel and Sam Carrick. He brings in defenseman Philip 150 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.399 Broberg for Vincent de Charnay. Bro Berg had yet to play in the playoffs. 151 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:05.639 That's a risky, gutsy move, but it paid off. Connor McDavid, 152 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.519 by the way, had three assists now his twenty four in the playoffs. 153 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:20.440 This is exactly could the NHL really ask for anything more? Rangers Panthers 154 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:28.279 three straight games, overtime series tied to two, Dallas Edmonton a tug of 155 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.840 war back and forth series tied to two. Now, I know what a 156 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.279 lot of people probably think. Man, the NHL really wants the Rangers and 157 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:43.799 the Stars, two big markets, two American based teams. A Canadian based 158 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:50.279 team hasn't won the Cup since ninety three, right with the Canadians. Edmonton 159 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.840 might be the outlier there, Yeah, Toronto, that would be one thing 160 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:03.320 I'm not saying the NHL would be or the people who run their ratings would 161 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:06.960 be thrilled with a team like Calgary, for example, making the finals. 162 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:12.080 But you get Edmonton in there, and you use the best player in the 163 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:18.519 world as part of your marketing strategy, then you should be all right. 164 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:25.320 With Connor McDavid, I didn't get to the second game of the Tigers Pirates. 165 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:33.559 Paul Skeen's was a dominant force for Pittsburgh. They blow out Detroit ten 166 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:38.799 to two. Skiens celebrates his twenty second birthday by striking out nine and six 167 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:45.240 innings. Andrew McCutcheon, who I've always liked, I think he's a hell 168 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.799 of a player. He's been a hell of a pro over sixteen hundred career 169 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.000 hits. Now, not that that gets you in the Hall of Fame, 170 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:57.679 because it doesn't, but think about that for a moment. That's it's when 171 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:03.400 you hear about the three one thousand hit group, how long it would take 172 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:11.400 to get three thousand hits. It's it's simply amazing. Andrew McCutchen is now, 173 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.160 he's still productive. If he's thirty seven thirty seven, he's played sixteen 174 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.519 years. Her his first year he was a twenty two year old. That's 175 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.359 you're in the major leagues at age twenty two. That's pretty damn good, 176 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.799 don't you think. Yeah, And he hit two eighty six, so he's 177 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:33.119 he's twenty two when he enters. He's had a very productive career. For 178 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:37.200 the most part, he has been very healthy. Look at these games played, 179 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.640 one hundred and fifty four, one fifty eight, one fifty seven, 180 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.680 one fifty seven, one forty six, one fifty seven, on and on 181 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:47.920 and on. Right, I say, for the most part, dude's got 182 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:53.319 over sixteen hundred hits. It's a hell of an accomplishment. He's played sixteen 183 00:17:53.400 --> 00:18:02.559 years he's barely halfway there to three thousand. He ain't getting three thousand. 184 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.480 But Andrew McCutchen has been again one of the better players I think of his 185 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.720 generation. Gold Glover, four time Silver Slugger, five time All Star. 186 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:18.920 It's been an MVP again. Not a Hall of Famer, but I've always 187 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:26.839 liked him. He's got over sixteen hundred career hits. He homered yesterday for 188 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:32.319 his six one thousand, six hundredth hit, and in each of Paul Skeene's 189 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:41.319 starts, Andrew McCutchen has homered. Kind of a unique figure there. So 190 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.519 they went at ten to two, and as I mentioned, Skeens was phenomenal. 191 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.559 You want power pitchers, we get all enamored with them, and rightfully 192 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:56.960 so. Triple digits on a regular basis, and a guy who he's going 193 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.559 to be a force to be reckoned with. He's a really good story. 194 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.359 If you don't know about it, check it out. Really good story. 195 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:12.559 Transferring to LSU becoming the most outstanding player in their national championship run. Seems 196 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:21.480 like a really good kid. I don't know him, haven't interviewed him, 197 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.680 but how can you deny the stuff took him a little longer. You know, 198 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:30.279 he was a little I mean, while the strike zone was there, 199 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:40.160 ninety six pitches to get through six trying to put guys away, seventy pitches 200 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:47.480 were strikes. Gave up a home run to Matt Vierling, who has homered 201 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.119 in what four or five games. It's incredible what Vierling's been doing lately, 202 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.880 which goes to show, you know, now's the time right here where people 203 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:00.960 are probably saying, look, this guy's everyday player. He's hitting like one 204 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.400 I said earlier. As much as I like Matt Fielding, and I do, 205 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.839 I like him a lot. He's a really good dude. He's a 206 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.480 really good player at Notre Dame. Tigers did a nice job in getting him 207 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:23.839 from Philadelphia. Soto clements to Philly for Vereling, Nick Mayton, Donnie Sands, 208 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.839 and Donnie Sands is in the miners somewhere. I think it's the Giants 209 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:37.680 organization. Mayton no idea. Cody Clemens has been pretty good for Philadelphia, 210 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.640 trade work for both teams right for the most part, as hot as vere 211 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:49.519 League's been, and he has been hot in two eighty nine selection five oh 212 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:55.720 three. 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Glad you're with us and hope you have a great day 239 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:48.920 today. Wherever it is you may be listening great affiliates on x'es and bros. 240 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:55.039 And we appreciate everything they do for US in Flint WTRX, in Cadillac 241 00:23:55.200 --> 00:24:03.000 WKD in Grand Rapids WAX ninety six point one FM, and Krayling Gaylord WGRY 242 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.400 one o one point one FM, w LUN one hundred point nine serving Midlands 243 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:14.640 sagonaw On Bay City, Pataski and Charlavoy owned by the Ticket Northern Michigan WNBN 244 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:18.720 one oh four point seven FM, and in Traverse City WKAD ninety three point 245 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:26.319 seven FM as well. Tigers split with Pittsburgh yesterday. Eilers win five to 246 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.759 two over Dallas even their series and the Western Conference Finals in the NBA will 247 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:37.480 be taking place later on Today. Minnesota will host Dallas, with the Mavericks 248 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.920 up three to one. Again. It's pretty cool to be a Dallas sports 249 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.519 fan right now. They love to talk about their cowboys and you get it, 250 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:49.039 but their basketball and their hockey teams are pretty damn good as well, 251 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:57.680 Unlike those who follow the New York Mets. The Mets lost to the Dodgers 252 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:08.839 yesterday and afterwards expected two if they didn't already. It has not been confirmed, 253 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:15.640 but the belief is they're going to cut or hit Lopez because he was 254 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:25.079 part of a contingent from the bullpen that surrendered the loss to the Dodgers ten 255 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.039 to three. Lopez came in and gave up a two run bomb to Shojey 256 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.599 Otane and then on the next batter it was Freddy Freeman. There's never really 257 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:42.880 an easy out in that Dodgers lineup. Lopez had an argument with Ramon Dejeusu's 258 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:52.400 who is a third base umpire and ruled that Freddy Freeman checked his swing on 259 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:59.319 a possible strike. Lopez thought he went around, they argued. Lopez was 260 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:06.200 ejected. Lopez then threw his glove into the stands. After being ejected. 261 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.759 He would later say what I mean, why you say this? Who knows? 262 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:19.000 I mean, just a complete idiot apparently. But he basically said, 263 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:30.200 this team, it's the worst efing team in the entire Major League Baseball exact 264 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:41.200 quote, worst team probably the whole fing MLB. That's a guy who does 265 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.240 not care, right who in their right mind? Now we all get emotional. 266 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:51.960 I got emotional yesterday and we had a caller call in and say, 267 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:55.680 Ship, do you need a hug? Right? I mean, yeah, 268 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:59.160 it takes place every once in a while. This is going to happen. 269 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.720 I don't know if it was Jake or Scott or Maurice. I forget who 270 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:11.640 it was, Freddie whatever, Dave. Anyway, we all get emotional. 271 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.839 You want a cooling off period. If you've ever umpired or refereed anything, 272 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.559 if you ever coached anything. I used to be a co I coached my 273 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.079 kids in football when they were in seventh and eighth grade, fifth, sixth, 274 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:36.359 seventh and eighth grade, and I used to meet with parents before the 275 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:40.559 season began the very first practice on purpose, and I said, I would 276 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:45.759 say to them, you may have an issue with me at some point during 277 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.759 the season, me and other members of the coaching staff. All I ask 278 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:55.839 you to do is give it a beat, give it twenty four hours, 279 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.799 think about it for a moment, and then come and let's talk. Because 280 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.920 I've been there, done that. I can't say that I've always followed my 281 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:11.799 own advice, but for the most part I did as a parent, So 282 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:18.480 I get it, you know. So we all get emotional. Jorge Lopez 283 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:25.319 having microphones in his face right away after being ejected, having a glove thrown 284 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:30.559 up in the stands, and coming off reportedly what was a player's only meeting 285 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:37.160 while their manager is talking to the media. The players behind closed doors, 286 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:48.720 reportedly called by Francisco Lindor media comes in interviews Lopez, he still says something 287 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:53.400 as stupid. That's what it is. It's flat out stupidity as that. 288 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:02.920 Do you really think that will endure you to that clubhouse, that organization, 289 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:08.799 that fan base, or any other team who may be in need of a 290 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:18.880 reliever. Honestly, idiocy, It's just flat out idiocy. I can't understand 291 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.119 why in the world any But again, I get the whole emotion part. 292 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:29.599 I really do. I can appreciate it. We have all been in something 293 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:36.200 similar regarding emotions. But this isn't a Seinfeld episode. It's not where George 294 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.079 is all ticked off because he can't use the boss's bathroom, goes in and 295 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:45.279 calls him a joke and gets fired and then tries to come back the next 296 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.000 day and say, you know what, you thought I was serious or after 297 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.880 the weekend you thought I was serious. I wasn't serious. No, that's 298 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.880 not the way it works, man. And here's the thing, Lopez. 299 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:06.640 For the most part, I mean, he's been an effective player. There 300 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:14.400 are certain attributes that you would probably like to have coming out of your bullpen 301 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:21.640 had some success. He's not as good as Pablo Lopez from Minnesota as a 302 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:29.960 starter, but Hore Lopez has had a spell twenty twenty two, for example, 303 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.000 where he's been pretty effective, used pretty regularly, and could give you 304 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:41.839 some decent innings. Not now, who the hell's going to take a chance 305 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.720 on a guy like this? Now he's not so electric. Okay, he's 306 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.799 not Josh Hater for crying out loud. He's not so electric. That makes 307 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:55.640 you go, hmmm, yeah, I'm gonna throw him a lifeline there, 308 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.880 and it just boils over. I suppose to do what that team is really 309 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:07.039 dealing with. You're talking about a three hundred and seven million dollar payroll and 310 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:12.960 they've got twenty two wins. You want some perspective for that. Oakland has 311 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:21.200 a sixty four million dollar payroll. They have more wins. Cincinnati has a 312 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:26.240 one hundred two million dollar payroll. They have twenty four They have more wins. 313 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:29.920 Pittsburgh, who just left town with a split against Detroit, has an 314 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:34.319 eighty three million dollar payroll. They have twenty six wins, four more than 315 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:44.440 the Mets. Tampa's got twenty seven wins. Their payroll is ninety eight million 316 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:51.599 dollars compared to the Mets is three hundred and seven. I'm not saying we 317 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:59.680 shouldn't be disappointed with where our team is right now, because I think that's 318 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:05.160 a I think that's fair. But sometimes it's okay to put it in perspective 319 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.920 and what the Mets are going through, and then what what the Mets have. 320 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.079 Francisco Lindor. Somebody asked me this. I don't know if it was 321 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.200 last week, but they asked me what I thought of Francisco Lindor, and 322 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:22.279 I said, I really like the guy, really like him. He's having 323 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:30.839 a terrible year that in two eleven on base percentage of two seventy nine, 324 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:44.599 slugging three seventy two h Those are hard numbers to digest. League average for 325 00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:47.880 a team for a team, on base percentage is a three to eleven, 326 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:59.240 League average for a team slugging is a three to eighty seven. And yet 327 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:09.519 Lindor's giving you a two seventy nine OBP for a guy who is making the 328 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:22.400 amount of money that he makes thirty four million dollars. Starling Marte twenty one 329 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:30.839 million bucks, Peter Alonso injured twenty million bucks, Brandon Neimo twenty million bucks. 330 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:38.319 Brandon Neimo's betten a Chris two to fourteen man not a baby. Maybe 331 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:45.039 it's the wrong statistic to focus on. Maybe it's very convenient that I use 332 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:52.160 the low number because he has been that disappointing. I'm just giving you some 333 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:57.920 numbers to try and put it in perspective for when we have our next Tigers 334 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.319 disappointing discussion. And the Tigers are in Boston tonight. It's the first of 335 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.159 four against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, and it is the first of 336 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:13.559 a seven game road trip for the Tigers. You'll hear this coming up a 337 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:20.039 little bit later on in the Den. But every time I think of Boston 338 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:24.920 and anytime I used to go there, and I would encourage anybody if you 339 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.519 want to go to a really good baseball park, if you are one of 340 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:32.800 those folks. I got a friend of mine at the gym. Every summer 341 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:39.400 he takes his grandkids to different ballparks. So he and I are talking constantly, 342 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.480 and he always says, you know, give me some ballparks. I 343 00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.039 really should take my kids too. Depends on how far you want to go, 344 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:52.079 but if you can, I mean Fenway Park is worth it. It 345 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:55.880 reeks of baseball. That's what you want, right, for some reason, 346 00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:01.360 more than any other sport. You go into a Bay baseball stadium and you 347 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:06.599 want it to feel like baseball. Football. We get that's all purpose. 348 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:13.679 Hockey and basketball arenas, they're all purpose. Even though concerts and other events 349 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:20.119 oftentimes are played at baseball parks, you still want the feel of a baseball 350 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.199 stadium. Am I right? That's how I at least that's what I want. 351 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:30.360 Fenway Park gives you that, Chavez Ravine Dodger Stadium gives you that, 352 00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:36.840 Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City gives you that. Pittsburgh P and C Park gives 353 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:42.119 you that. There are certain places when you go you're like, this is 354 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:44.840 what it's all about. I know they've had an outdoor hockey game there. 355 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.039 I know they've had a bull game there. The point is, when you 356 00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:57.079 go into that ballpark, you feel like you're in a baseball stadium. Yes, 357 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:00.639 Wrigley Field is like that, absolutely, But I'm just telling you, 358 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:05.280 if you get the chance, go to Fenway Park. But when I think 359 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:10.199 of Fenway, I immediately think of Tiger Stadium. Now there's a lot of 360 00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.960 you listening to me who never went to Tiger Stadium, and I feel bad 361 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:21.159 for you. I do. It was all baseball, man, it was 362 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.719 for me. It was a bit of a haven. I loved going there 363 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:30.840 as a kid. Well. Tiger Stadium and Fenway Park opened April twentieth, 364 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:37.239 nineteen twelve. They opened on the same day, and they were the oldest 365 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.840 ballparks in baseball until nineteen ninety nine, when, of course, the last 366 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.320 game was played between the Tigers and the Royals in Detroit. One in dramatic 367 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:53.239 fashion and wore the throwback uniforms and Robert Fick hit a home run over the 368 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:59.199 roof, and it was it was magical, quite honestly, it was a 369 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:06.079 magical night when the Tigers beat the Royals that day, and when Tiger Stadium 370 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.760 closed, it was emotional for a lot of us. I always found it 371 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:20.159 a prideful thing for Detroit and the state of Michigan to have the oldest ballpark 372 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.280 in the country, as a charter member of the American Lake, an original 373 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:30.000 charter member of the American League, to have the oldest ballpark, to have 374 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:37.280 it have the different names, Bennett, Navin, Tiger, all that stuff. 375 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:44.159 It was. I just thought it was fantastic, and it was something 376 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:51.320 I used to brag about going around the country. Nothing against Komerica Park. 377 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:54.440 I do like co America Park. It just doesn't have the same feel to 378 00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:00.239 me. Why that is, huh, you know probably age right. I 379 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.920 mean for a lot of you young people, Comerica Park is that you have 380 00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:08.519 that feel. I don't know for me, if it's because of the Feriress 381 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:14.400 Wheel or the Merry Go Round or Big cac Cord or I don't know. 382 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:19.000 I can't explain it. I just know when you walked into Tiger Stadium, 383 00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:24.920 you smelled the grass. You went in there, and just I can close 384 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:28.920 my eyes and picture it now. You walk up a ramp and when you 385 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:36.760 see that ballpark, your heart just opens and you get goosebumps. I never 386 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.039 had that feel for Comerica anyway. It was something that I thought was very 387 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:47.079 prideful for Detroiter's the Tiger Stadium and Femway Park with the oldest, and then 388 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:54.000 of course Wrigley Field, and then it's Dodger Stadium that's been around a long 389 00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:00.559 time. You can't get that back. That doesn't mean that they should have 390 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.159 kept it. I mean, I remember I was kind of on the warpath, 391 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.920 saying I would like to see them renovate it. I get why they 392 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:14.800 moved where they moved, and it makes a ton of sense for downtown Detroit, 393 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:23.239 no question, totally get it. Very convenient for visitors, very cool 394 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:30.239 for fans, foot traffic and all that other stuff. So I understand it. 395 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:37.360 But Fenway Park is going to be mecca or is mecca for people in 396 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:44.239 Boston and people who watch baseball. The thing about Fenway Park that ownership group 397 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:52.840 committed to renovations. Again, different scenario, it's a different situation. I'm 398 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:59.760 not blaming the Tigers here for building a new ballpark or taxpayers building a new 399 00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:06.559 ball park and having the team play where it does. It's just that Boston 400 00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:15.239 chose to preserve what they felt was special to their baseball fans, and they 401 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:22.599 have renovated it so where it's still even though it has that old school feel, 402 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.920 it is still updated with the amenities that you would want in a new 403 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.800 ballpark, except for I mean, you're pretty crunched in there. But they 404 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:36.840 what did they do? They built seats above the Green Monster. Brilliant, 405 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:46.880 absolutely brilliant. They have made renovations that will keep Fenway Park usable through at 406 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:54.840 least two thy sixty one. And you can say what you want about certain 407 00:40:54.960 --> 00:41:02.519 organizations, certain cities, a certain fan base, but that lineage that linked 408 00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:07.960 the past to have it be the oldest ballpark and it's not going to lose 409 00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:17.239 that status anytime soon. You have to tip your cap to them. Meyer 410 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:21.320 Hotline eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text 411 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.239 the show sports Ready to twenty one thousand. Told you we were going to 412 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.039 talk a little football. We are going to do that. One website says 413 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.480 the Lions are not one of the more complete teams in football. We'll get 414 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:35.119 your thoughts on that throughout the rest of the morning on the our hotline eight 415 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.199 six six eight three eight forty eight forty three. 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