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care you don't have any wins.
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you start telling me it doesn't matter, I can retire. Get out for

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Last night, Tigers and Cardinals were
postponed and they got a double dip.

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Today. Every time I think of
I put this in our in the Den

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segment today. Every time I think
of Tigers and Cardinals, I think of

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the World Series. Not old enough
of their first ever clash. Some of

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you might think I am, But
let me just say that is not necessarily

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the case. Just for the record, I think of the first World Series

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just from a historical perspective. When
they met in nineteen thirty four, Cardinals

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won it in seven games. Bad
series for Hank Greenberg, really good series

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for Charlie Garran nineteen sixty eight.
You know that it was epic. Ben

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is too young for it. Some
of you maybe go back and look at

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the numbers there. Mickey Lolich started
three games, lasted all nine innings in

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all three games, won all three
games, and gave up just five runs

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total in those three games. He
was MVP. And then two thousand and

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six, which was quite honestly the
biggest embarrassment you could find in recent Tigers

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lore. Honestly, that was a
situation. These are the ones that I

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think, I think, these are
the ones that are are really difficult to

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live down. I remember going to
Saint Louis for the Tigers and Cardinals way

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back and looking up and noticing that
the Cardinals had eleven World Series titles,

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and it kind of surprised me.
I was like, wow, I didn't

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know that. I knew they were
an organization that a lot of people loved

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and followed and respected, but I
didn't realize they had eleven. It's a

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lot. But I look back at
two thousand and six and I think to

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myself, that is a that's a
Cardinals team. I don't know if people

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remember this truly. They won eighty
three games. That's it. It's nuts

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that a team could win the World
Championship in Major League Baseball squeaking in struggling

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down the stretch. They were really
bad down the stretch. They had lost

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seven of their last ten games that
season, limping in even though they won

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the NL Central. The NL Central
was territ Houston was in the NL Central

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that year. It was Cardinals,
Houston, Cincy, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh,

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Chicago. Houston finished a game and
a half back. They were actually playing

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well that year in the National League
Central. The Cardinals had dropped seven of

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their last ten. Get this,
they were thirteen games under five hundred on

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the road. That's how bad they
were. They were thirty four and forty

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seven on the road in two thousand
and six. Put it in perspective,

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the Tigers had ninety five wins that
year. They had twelve more wins than

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Saint Louis. There were eleven games
over five hundred at home, and yet

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the Cardinals go in and they win
that series rather handily. That's the tough

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part about it. That was a
tough one to swallow. It really was

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because and that's where Detroit had a
long layoff, Because the Tigers took care

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of business quickly. They beat the
Yankees in the ALDS, they swept the

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A's in the ALCS, while the
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of the playoffs and then needed seven
games to beat the Mets. So what

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happened? Detroit had a long layoff. I think it was nine days,

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nine days where they were at Comerica
Park just practicing. Baseball teams don't do

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that. They don't practice. The
games are their practice during spring training,

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and then you get into a rhythm. I'm not making excuses by any stretch,

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but that's what happens. It's just
basketball. They practice hockey. You

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got morning skates and you got practice
football. Obviously your practice in all week.

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It's not the way it works in
baseball. Took him completely off their

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game, and it showed. You
remember you watched it, You're like,

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oh, is this the same team
I watched all season long? What the

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hell happened here? Seohn Casey was
the only one who really played all that

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well. Carlos Kian I think,
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was two for nineteen. That's brutal. Got a quick call here this morning

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to start our Tuesday. Ben,
go down the line. It's Mark and

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gun Lake. Hi Mark Hori today? Oh great, great? Yeah?

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Maglio was terrible than that. Yeah, But anyways, I was eight years

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old. I went to a regular
season game down at Tiger Stadium. They

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had a couple of pretty good pitchers. Earl Wilson he hit a home run,

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but you were talking about Mickey Lolich. He also hit a home run

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in the World Series. I thought
that was that was pretty cool. And

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all those three wins, I don't
know how many were up against Bob Gibson.

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I think the last one I think
I thought the last one just just

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a Game seven because I think Denny
McClain was matched up with Bob Gibson,

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who, in case people don't know, was truly one of the most dominant,

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intimidating pictures of all time. Yeah, I love it when you bring

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back the past where the Tigers that
play o'harton he was midfield and gunning down

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Brock at the plate. That was
the turning point of that whole series.

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It sure was, Yeah, it
was. It was incredible. Thanks for

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the phone calling. I'm sorry,
I gotta I gotta get to a break.

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The other thing was, you know
Mickey's remember Mickey Stanley came in and

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played shortstop. The other thing about
that is, I remember we did last

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year when I was calling Tigers baseball. Dan patri and I were in Saint

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Louis and we did the open from
the Cardinals Hall of Fame. We'll get

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to more of that when we come
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Bros, We're with you Monday,
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wouldn't what I should do is I
should put it out on Twitter. It's

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we were just talking before the break
about the Saint Louis Cardinals being in town

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postponed yesterday, doubleheader today against the
against the Tigers, and it makes me

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just think back and reflect to the
number of times the Tigers and Cardinals have

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class in the World Series. I
was mentioning the two thousand and six and

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the disappointment there and how really what
a bad regular season say Lewis was compared

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to the Detroit Tigers, and how
the Tigers just couldn't handle them in the

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World Series. The long layoff was
definitely an effect. Mark and GUNNL like

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said, you know, Magular Ordonios
was really bad. Placido Polanco, who

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I really liked, I don't think
he had a hit in the World series,

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so we can talk about Maglia Ordonia
is all we want, and it's

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fair because he wasn't good at all. Well, Placida Planco went over seventeen.

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That's a problem. But anyway,
I'm not going to go back to

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to two thousand and six. I
will say this about Saint Louis. It's

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a great baseball town. And sometimes
there are certain cliches used with certain cities

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about sports. I mentioned it the
other day about Philadelphia, you know,

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and how it prides itself on,
you know, throwing snowballs at Santa Claus

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and all. Saint Louis really is
a great baseball town. If you ever

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go, I would strongly encourage you
to go to the Cardinals Baseball Museum.

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It is phenomenal. It's right across
the street from Bush Stadium and you can

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go in there and see the various
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in big moments. They have tours
there. I think it only cost you

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like five bucks to get in,
but they have different rooms lit up.

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I mean, they did it right. Anything that is special. When it

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comes to the Cardinals championship trophies,
again, great players and their memorabilia,

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great pictures, video, it is
state of the art. Go But I

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went there again with Dan Petrie and
we did the open for a ballet sports

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broadcast. And as much as I
liked it, actually loved it, as

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much as I was in awe of
the different things they had to offer,

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the more I walked around, the
more upset I got. I got upset

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because I thought to myself, why
doesn't Detroit have this? If we're viewed

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as a great sports town that many
people would say that, we're viewed as

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the nineteen oh one Society, an
original charter member of the American League,

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all that stuff, right, Just
four championships. I don't mean to say

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just because that's that's not bad.
But thirty five, forty five, sixty

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eight, eighty four, nineteen eighty
four is the last time. I mean,

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it's it's just borderline unacceptable. I
mean, if you were a company,

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you'd say, this is unacceptable.
But when you see that, where

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is the ode to history? Where
is the you know what fans you deserve

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this, you know what past great
players you deserve this? Where is that?

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It's nowhere? Don't give me the
concourse. Stop. The concourse is

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like an old high school gymnasium.
It's horrible. It was great when Comerica

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Park opened twenty four years ago,
but it's not great now. It's ridiculous

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now outdated. It's got all these
old, huge remnants, replicas of front

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page newspaper headlines. Who I mean, seriously, give it the program.

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It's ridiculous. But even that,
let's just say you keep that. There's

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so many buildings downtown, there's so
much property owned by wealthy individuals. You

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can't make one of those a Tigers
or Detroit Sports Hall of Fame building.

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Really, you can't categorize and chart
your storied history of the great players who've

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played here. Where are they all? Seriously, what the hell has happened

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in sports history in Detroit? Specifically, Redwings have eleven Stanley Cups, more

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than any other team in the United
States. And you see some of it

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walking around Little Caesars Arena. Remember
that's shared with the Pistons. Okay,

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you don't think there's a lot of
memorabilia someplace else to be had that should

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be put on display and showcase to
fans. NFL drafts a perfect example.

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I have said this for I'll say
fifteen years. It falls on deaf ears,

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or maybe people just aren't listening.
Maybe it's a better idea in my

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mind than anybody else's. Who knows. I'm willing to be open to that

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possibility. But you had the NFL
Draft, You had a record number of

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people downtown, supposedly seven hundred thousand, that broke the record held by Nashville

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years ago. You had a chance
if you had something like that where people

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who come from out of town want
to know a little bit more about your

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city and a little bit more about
the heritage of your organizations. Specifically,

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you know the four major teams.
Even though you could definitely throw in Gold

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Cup races that traditionally drew hundreds of
thousands of people, so many different things

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you could do nothing. People were
really looking forward to doing something downtown besides

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going to eat and checking out some
of the bars, which was great too.

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Footech foot traffic was phenomenal. Where
is it? Mark had brought up

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the throw from Willie Horton to Bill
Freehand blocking the plate in the nineteen sixty

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eight World Series and tagging out Lou
Brock who chose not to slide. Slide.

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Why I have no idea. Hall
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Why didn't he slide? Social media
back then would have just ridiculed him to

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no end. Sports radio would have
just gone nuts. Where's that video?

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Besides YouTube? Where's that video for
fans to go and see? For young

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people like Ben who have no idea
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How about the story that Mickey Lolich
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said I need you in game seven? He said, yeah, I can

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come out of the bullpen for you, and Mayo Smith said no, I

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need you to start. And after
every inning he would go up to Mickey

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Lolich and say I need one more
out of you until about I don't know

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if it was the fifth or sixth, when Mickey Lolich said this time he

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went up to Mayo Smith. He
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This is my game. Mickey Lolish
told me that story in his backyard years

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dot com thirty five after the hour. Welcome back, exs and Bros.

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I'm Matt Shepherd. Ben is our
producer. Give him a call on the

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Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three
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could text us text Sports Radio to
twenty one thousand. I just tweeted it

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out. I put it out on
X video I had from a year ago.

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The Saint Louis Cardinals Baseball Hall of
Fame, eleven championships. Phenomenal players

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right, some of the game's greatest
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and McCarver, and more recently too, a lot of players too, Scott

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Rowland, for example, Nolan Arnauto. There's so many great players Paul Goldsmith.

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They'll all be part of it,
right, But they've got themselves a

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phenomenal Cardinals Hall of Fame. Why
doesn't Detroit have one? Am I too

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wrapped up in it? Do you
think for me? Because I believe Michigan

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should happen. I think the state
of Michigan should happen. Where it goes,

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I really don't care. I think
it's obvious it should be in Detroit.

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In a perfect world, i'd have
too. I'd have one in Detroit

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and won of Grand Rabbits, the
two biggest cities in the state of Michigan,

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and let people go see it.
Charge five bucks? Is that big

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of a deal? Have a curator? Have signed baseball bats from Miguel Cabrera

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and Al Kaylin. You know they
are there, right, you know they

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exist. There's that virtual reality.
Have you ever been to Chrysler Center where

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you can shoot baskets? Bear with
me here picture this. Let's just say

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sake of argument. It's a five
level building, all right. You walk

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in. On one floor it's the
Tigers, and it's an ode to Cobb

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and Kline and Greenberg and Garringer and
Kel and recently Verlander and Cabrera, of

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course, Trammelin, Whittaker and Gibson
and Parish and all the great players.

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Okay, Jack Morris, the virtual
reality, you stand in the box against

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Justin Verlander, Jack Morris, Mickey
Lolis, Danny McClain, Dan Petriet,

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whatever. You press a button where
you can pick the pitcher you want to

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face. Joe Zamaya if you want
it, probably wouldn't have him because he

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hasn't been on great terms with the
organization. How cool would that be?

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That'd be really cool. You have
a theater area where you hear great stories

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that were given by some of your
past idols. Then there's another floor for

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Detroit Red Wings, and you get
a chance to shoot on whatever goalie you

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want to pick, Mike Vernon,
Chris Osgod, Dominic, Kashik, Terry's,

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I don't care. And again you
see the jerseys of Eiserman and fed

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Off and Lidstrom and Zetterberg and the
various great players that the organization has had,

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and you hear stories about it,
and you see little knick knacks of

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what it was all about. An
iconic goal that was scored, the Darren

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McCarty goal against the Philadelphia Flyers,
you get a chance to watch the build

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up in the Fight of nineteen ninety
seven, all that stuff, right,

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How cool would that be? You
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You get a chance to shoot a
free throw. You get a chance

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to guard Isaiah Thomas. You get
a chance to measure yourself against Chuck Nevitt

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in a lighthearted moment. Another floor
is dedicate to the Detroit Lions. Chance

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of throw to Calvin Johnson, or
measure your wingspan against Calvin Johnson. Just

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see how big certain guys were.
See the pass that comes out of the

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hand of Matthew Stafford or Jared Goff
or Bobby Lane or Gary Danielson. I

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don't care, Jeff Komlo for Grant, who cares? It's an ode to

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the Detroit Lions standing in front of
a shoulder shaking Barry Sanders. And then

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there's one more floor, and it's
dedicated to the great accomplishments of the college

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athletes or the college programs. Fairris
States National Championships, Grand Valley's National Championships,

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Michigan's National Championships, Michigan State's National
Championships. Whommever, and you highlights

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some of the great college players the
area has ever had. And I don't

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care if it's a basketball player Western
Michigan like David Coole who is a great

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free throw shooter and is now an
athletic director on the west side of the

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state, or a really good high
school player like Jalen Rose. You dedicate

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that area or maybe it required two
floors to the collegiate and high school accomplishments

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of great athletes. How great would
that be? Would you not go and

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see something like that? Absolutely?
I think a ton of people would want

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to see something like that, And
I think people from out of town,

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not just people from out of town, but people who are from this area.

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Want to educate yourself a little bit. A lot of young people,

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what's the production line? No idea? They grew up going to the Joe.

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What about Olympia? No idea.
You remember Ford Field? How about

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the Silverdome? Did you know they
played at Tiger Stadium? No idea.

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Let them watch Dick Bucks, Chase
Dexter Bussy or Alti Taylor into the Tiger's

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seats. So many great stories,
so many great accomplishments, so many great

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athletes, so many great teams.
Don't know about it. Honestly, how

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do you reach young people and give
them a sense of just how great your

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organization was if you don't give them
a chance to hear the stories you have?

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Nineteen thirty five Detroit Tigers World Series
Champions any idea? Noop? You

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don't? You don't know about that
team? Do you? I don't expect

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you to. I suppose unless you
really want to get into research, But

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this would be an easy way for
you to do that. How did they

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beat the Cubs in six games?
Who is the star of the series?

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Do I even know who? Charlie
Garringer and Hank Greenberg and schoolboy row was.

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It's a great way to teach people. It's a great way to create

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more pride. We don't have it, not just for the Tigers, we

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don't have it for any of our
teams. Lions have been around a long

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time. They were in Portsmouth,
Ohio before they were the Detroit Lions.

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The Pistons originated in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. Red Wings are an original six

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team. How many people are truly
aware of the original six teams? See

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a lot of you say, oh, come on, that's easy. No,

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there's a lot of people who maybe
not follow hockey that much. They

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follow the Red Wings, but they
may not follow hockey. Come on,

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this is a no brainer. You
need buildings. There are plenty of big

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named people in this town, in
this state who could help. What are

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we doing? Where's the pride?
Where's the honor? Be boastful about it.

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Cincinnati Reds have a nice Hall of
Fame, Big Red Machine, Sparky

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Anders and Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, David conception On Jose everywhere, George

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Foster, Johnny Bench. They've got
some of the greatest places. They showcase

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it, they make sure people know
about it. Why don't we Are you

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trying to tell me that either the
Illitches or the Gilberts or Ishbia. Are

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you trying to tell me that none
of them can help? Find that really

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hard to believe. It's something I
think that needs to be explored. And

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tell me if I'm wrong, tell
me that it doesn't matter. Tell me

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that you would not want to go
into something like that. But when you

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sit down with your kids and eventually
your grandkids, or you want to bring

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somebody to town, would that not
be a great place to go. We've

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got great places. We've got wine
tours on the West Side, we got

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the beaches, Lake Michigan, got
some phenomenal places to see. We got

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great golf courses Northern Michigan. This
would be a really cool place that if

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somebody came to town, you said, you know what, let me show

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you a little bit more about what
this state has to offer. From an

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athletics standpoint, how many times do
you hear a song from a certain artist

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and say, that guy's from Detroit, that guy's from the state of Michigan.

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Bob Sieger, Ted NuGen Kid rock
eminem on and on and on.

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Aretha Franklin, for sure, you
boast that it's a Michigander, a Detroiter.

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Can't tell you how many people I
run into are They're like, they

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don't get us. We're prideful folks. Yes, it's part of the reason

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you raised your family in the Midwest. Good people, good family values for

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the most part. How about a
chance to express what sports means to you

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and to your family and how impactful
it's been. Got some incredible accomplishments in

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this state, incredible things that have
happened, and I mean great programs too,

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whether it be Rockford on the west
side of the state of Michigan or

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closer to home, Detroit Catholic Central
and some of the things that have been

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accomplished. I don't I just find
it very odd that there is so much

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to be proud of, but so
little done to showcase it. Our phone

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number on the Meyer hotline is eight
sixty six eight three, eight forty eight

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forty three. I you know,
I mentioned some some big names in the

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metro Detroit area with Illich and Ishbia
and Gilbert. There's plenty on the West

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side too, plenty divas immediately comes
to mind. So why wouldn't we do

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something like that. I'd love to
be in charge of something like that,

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where you're planning it, have that
vision what it should look like. Always

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wanted to be able to set up
a meeting with one of those power brokers,

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one of those power people, those
owners, and say here's what we

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need. I need you to give
me a building. But give you a

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building, you're not gonna pay for
it. No, I think this is

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part of your give back to the
city and to the state. We would

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like to be given a building and
then used it for the greater good of

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the city in the state. What
do you think of that? I wanted

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to be a five story building,
and this is what we're going to do

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with it and lay it out.
I wonder if anybody else would be into

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something like that, anybody else out
there who is some type of architect and

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can work with me on that.
I'm serious, This is this is a

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I think it's a really important project. And like I said, I've said

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of this as for you know,
a good fifteen years or so. But

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it really came to a head for
me when I was watching all those people

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at the NFL Draft and thinking to
myself, what could we show them that

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they didn't know about this area But
we do and still be prideful of it

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enough where we would like to attend
something like that. As I said last

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week, the state the city has
had numerous big events, some of the

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biggest events in sports history, and
done very very well with it and showcased

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it in the right light. And
there's articles written about it nationally, but

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more locally. Hey, what a
great job Detroit did with the NFL draft

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two days later, Let's move on
and let's talk about this. This would

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give you the opportunity to show people
what you can and what you have done

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all year long. It's exactly what
we should be done. This is not

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And I tweeted it out and you
get some responses. It's not one of

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those. Hey, I'm looking for
others sports hall of fames. I'm asking

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people, why don't we have one? That's what I don't understand. Somebody

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tweeted at me, Hey, the
Cincinnati Reds have a nice Hall of Fame

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as well. Yeah, that's great. I know that. I'd like to

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know why the hell we don't have
one? That was the question. Somebody

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else tweeted it me, I would
love that Corktown location would be cool for

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something like that. It is cool. Those are the things that you really

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appreciate. Those are the things you
wish you had. Those are the things

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that other people are envious of.
I went into that Saint Louis Hall of

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Fame and I thought, hen,
I would love to have something like this

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in my town. And some people
roll their eyes. They're like, Okay,

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enough is enough. You know,
that's it enough about how great of

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a baseball town it is. You
know what other people can tell you what

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a great baseball town your town is
by making something like that available to them.

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You're not the one who always has
to stick your chest out and say

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this is us, this is me, this is how great we are.

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Look at this. No, you
don't have to do that. Other people

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are going to do it for you
by just making that available to you.

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Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe more people
are humble, if you will, Maybe

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they'd like others do kind of explore
and dive into research on their own in

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order for them to understand and appreciate
and actually acknowledge what a certain city has

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done. But here's my guess.
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good and how historic their franchise truly
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