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All right into the seven o'clock hours, seven o'h one to be exact.

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In for Matt Shephard, I'm Tennis
Fithian. I hope you're having a great

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one out there. And last night
the conference finals got underway in hockey with

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Florida going into into New York and
meeting the Rangers. And then the Western

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Conference Finals in basketball got underway in
Minnesota with Dallas stealing home court advantage in

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getting the victory and Tigers get swept
in Kansas City. They come home for

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six games starting tonight against the Blue
Jays. That's what's happening in the world

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of the sports, numbers wise and
results wise. Now, I am going

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to give you my story of the
one high school game that I saw over

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the past thirty years. But it
was noteworthy, and I'm looking across the

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state of Michigan. Maybe you have
been to a high school game that was

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noteworthy that our audience would be like, Wow, that was a cool story.

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Wow, nice job you were able
to see that guy all the way

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through high school. I'll give you
my story here in just a second,

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but I also wanted to ask you
earlier this week, there was a story

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about former Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander,
and the story was that Verlander would be

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open. You know, the the
Astros do not have the kind of record

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that they want. Now you can
they could probably come back everything else.

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But just as it sits here right
now, you look at Houston and you

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know they're they're six games under five
hundred. So the idea that they could

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trade off a piece like Justin Verlander, is it the craziest notion? Is

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this a crazy notion? He said
that he'd be open to coming back to

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Detroit. Verlander was asked about it. So you gotta think this one through

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a little bit, and I'll ask
you, you're a Tigers fan, would

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you, if available, what you
want to see Justin Verlander via trade come

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back to the Detroit Tigers. I
want your thoughts on that. At eight

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six six eight three eight forty eight
forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six

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six eight three eight forty eight forty
three Lander to the Tigers, now,

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look you could. My first reaction
was the Tigers are going to be sellers.

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They're not going to be buyers at
any kind of trading deadline. I

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think everybody would agree with that,
whether or not you know, Houston is

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going to actually you know, be
sellers. You know, of course that

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remains to be seen. But we're
just we're in theory thinking this, that

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this, if it was available,
would you want to do it as a

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Tiger fan. The second thing that
I thought of is that, you know,

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the Tigers a couple of years ago
with Migul Cabrera, he was trying

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to get to three thousand hits and
you know, five hundred home runs whatever

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it was. And the couple of
years before that, I always said that

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when it ended with Miguel Cabrera,
you know, his contract, the last

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couple of years were going to be
bad. It wasn't going to end nicely.

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Now it's completely wrong about that.
It was it was the highlight and

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and otherwise, you know, forgettable
season for the Tigers. Micel Cabrera was

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the reason to go down to Comerica
Park. People, the fans really enjoyed

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his swan song. I felt,
you know, I went back and I

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thought about Victor Martinez when he was
in his last year or two of his

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contract. I mean, it was
pretty bad, and you know, with

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Cabrera being you know, over forty
and you know, not being the Miguel

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Cabrera. He was, and when
he signed the extension, it was just

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it was nothing against him. Really, it was that's the way teams did

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it. You know, they gave
you a couple extra years, and you

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knew at the end it could get
pretty bad and you might have to eat

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a contract because you know, you
just don't want to see an automatic out

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or whatever it was. But there
was a combination for the Tigers. If

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the Tigers were any good, it
might have ended up a little bit differently

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with Cabrera. He might have ultimately
not really been but he was halfway decent

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and the Tigers were not really halfway
decent, so it worked out well for

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him. There weren't really any expectations
for the Tigers. They weren't doing anything,

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and Cabrera rehit you know, they're
putting it up on in center field

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of certainly every home run, and
then when he finally did get to those

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milestones, it was, you know, there was it was just a good

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feeling about it. So you think
about Verlander and how many ever starts I

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don't know, want they get ten
starts out of him. Five starts at

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home certainly would be a draw from
people that want to relive the old days,

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go see JV one more time.
There's nothing wrong with that. I'm

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not making that sound like completely negative. I mean, if you're a baseball

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fan, you're a Tigers fan a
JV depending on how old you are,

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and you don't remember eighty four,
I mean that was the nine year stretch.

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He was a rookie. In two
thousand and six, the Tigers went

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to the World Series. A couple
of years after that, they went to

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the World Series again. When he
was in Detroit, he won the triple

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Crowd of pitching. He was amazing. And then when they I had to

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finally sell him off. It was
funny that other teams were like, hey,

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he's got so many innings and that
arm, it's just there. It

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was a buyers beware on them,
and I was a little bit surprised at

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that. But that's not really a
part of the story is for you,

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as a as a baseball fan,
would you want to see Erlander back with

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the Tigers eight six six eight three
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Hotline eight six six eight three eight
forty eight forty three. You can text

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sports radio to twenty one thousand that
now high school baseball across the state of

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Michigan. I went to one game, and I think it was around ninety

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seven. I think it was nineteen
ninety seven, so it's been a long

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time since I've been to a high
school baseball game. It's just the way

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it worked a lot of college baseball. When the strike hit in ninety four,

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I turned my attention to college baseball, loved it, and then going

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to work in Detroit in myself two
thousand and six. Speaking of that two

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thousand and six season, that was
nice timing by me because the Tigers went

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to the World Series and a lot
of Major League baseball over the next fourteen

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years for me, but no high
school baseball. But the one high school

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game that I went to see.
I was working in ann Arbor and the

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Wolverines had a commitment from an All
American a USA to a Sports All America.

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When they used to put out their
recruiting page. Drew Henson from Brighton

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was the All American punter, wasn't
the quarterback although he was high. He

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thought of as a sick of caller. But Henson was playing in high school

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and I went to see him play. I'm going to tell you how that

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game went. Just at a second
straight ahead, but it was noteworthy.

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I've got the JV question out there. Would you like to see him come

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back to the Tigers? And one
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you doing. You're having a good Thursday.

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I hope so hope you're. I
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now, we're as you went expect
talking some sports. I got a high

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school a baseball story that I'm telling
you. I got the question out there

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about justin Verland or the former Tiger
Why or why not would you want to

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see the former Tiger hurler brought back
to the Tigers via trade. And I've

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got some this iconic sports show with
a big question mark on it that I'm

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going to get to straight ahead.
You can join us on any of it.

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Eight six, six, eight three
eight forty eight forty three. And

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that's tomayr Hotline. You had the
Panthers winning in hockey over the Rangers,

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and the Mavericks stealing Game one of
the Western Conference Finals up in Minnesota last

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night, and the Tigers got swept. They're coming back home after getting swept

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by the Royals in Kansas City six
game homestand starting with the Blue Jays.

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So that's where that is at.
You have got the numbers the buyer hotline

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eight six six eight three eight forty
eight forty three, and the text is

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twenty one thousand. Tech Sports Radio
two twenty one thousand. Ben Zost is

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producing Ben. What are the what's
the text line look like? One of

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them says, we need hitting.
Our pitching is our strength. Verlander will

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cost way too much and that's from
trash man Niles. Yeah, well,

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Niles, that was my first Well
what did I say? My first thought

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was was are the Tigers gonna be
in position? But yeah, part of

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that is that if you're thinking about
if they were going to be buyers,

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they would be buying a bat,
not an arm. So that is a

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very I would say, uh uh, hitting the nail on the head there,

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Niles. I'm with you on that
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You're you're you're talking uh straight up. Yeah, that makes that does makes

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sense from that standpoint. Tigers can't
hit elect they had pitching pretty good.

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Let's bring back a pitcher. Oh
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All right, the we got another
one that says the team needs to

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trade for Justin Verlander and Alex Bregman
all thettle combinations. So you're absorbing some

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salary which the Tigers could do.
Now, So now does that have a

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name on it? I like the
thought pattern there. I believe that's from

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Freddy. Freddy. Now, so
Freddie's you know, he's thinking through some

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things. You got Bregman, pretty
good ballplayer, and you know the Astros

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might be looking. You know.
It's so you're getting Bregman. But and

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to do that, you know,
you're you're just attaching Verlander, who you've

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got the sentimental value for from Verlander. So I like where Freddie's at Bergman

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relatively young at thirty years old,
he's been struggling a little bit, but

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ain't bregg to the Tigers. Bregman
not a bad thought there and could be

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could be something that could happen there. I like where his thoughts are at.

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Any other texts out there. We
do have one about golf and the

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Pistons. Golf and the Pistons,
Yeah, could possibly be the the connection

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there. Let's hear that one says
what is more likely to happen this next

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season? Goff has more tds or
Pistons have more wins. Well, I

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immediately would think golf, But let's
think it through the Pistons. How many

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games did they win? Ten games
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that. Was it like thirteen maybe
fourteen? Here fourteen wins? Golf had

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thirty touchdown passes. That's an easy
one to remember. So we're talking about

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the Pistons doubling up their win total. First of all, is that you

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know, you'd have to think that
golf is going to be close to thirty,

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if not above that next year.
Thinking what the Lions were able to

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do offensively, are the Pistons poised
to double up their win total? I

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don't see that. If I was
not algorithm or anything else. If the

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gambling sites just called me and said, hey, you got to put a

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win total on the Pistons, I'm
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mean, it's I don't know the
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my first thought on that on the
Pistons wind total. So do I think

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that golf could throw over twenty and
a half touchdowns? If i'm again,

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they probably do have this number and
over an under number on Golf TV,

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passes. That's probably I don't know, twenty seven, so golf by a

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mile. On that particular text,
I said this a couple of weeks ago.

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I said it a month ago when
I was filling in for Sheep about

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the NFL Draft. It is it's
taken me a while, and at times

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I just pause to think about the
Lions being having the this future in front

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of them that is so bright,
that has never happened before in our lifetimes.

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And you look at the other teams
like, uh, right, we

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used to look at the Lions and
it's you know, it's where it's at.

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It's strange, but uh, it's
it continues this off season. You

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know, you had the the positivity
through the Lions, you know, the

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season and then you know it used
to be that the Lions off season that

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was Detroit Lion fans time asked.
You know, the Lions always you know,

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fell phase first when the season would
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was over, it's like, oh
now it's now it's time. Now it's

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the real because then you'd had the
draft and the Lions, you know,

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they would take a periodically they would
take a big swing and free agency,

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which is first before the drafted,
and the draft was always like the Lion

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super Bowl, and you know,
now it's not like that. It's different.

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The draft was not like the Lions
super Bowl, though it was such

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a great it's just a great event
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just to reflect about just how different
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JV, that question is out there
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bringing Verlander back, but if you
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So I was wanting to continue the
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school baseball, and I'm looking for
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about high school baseball player you saw, I'd like to hear from it.

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This one was noteworthy. It was
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a quarterback at Michigan and then went
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but did not have a great NFL
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career, but had close to a
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if he would have come back instead
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to have a great year. I
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Coming up straight ahead plus the sports
shows of the sports show on TV,

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and it's got the big question mark
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straight ahead, no fooling around,
jumping right in that's gonna happen. Speaking

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of the Lions, they did win
the division last year, which again it's

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fun. It's fun to say fun
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to hear from you. I got
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the big question mark on this iconic
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Last night in the playoffs, you
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the Panthers three nothing against the Rangers
in New York and the Mavericks by three

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five in Minnesota against the t Wolves. Those were both game ones. Tonight,

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you've got Game one in the Western
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then Game two of the Eastern Finals
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they can put it together and even
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All right, I've got this high
school baseball story about Drew Henson.

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I'm also going to get to these
most iconic sports TV shows. There's a

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big question mark on one of them
that had me putting together a list.

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That's what I got coming up right
now. Of course, you could join

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us on what's on your mind out
there? You got something if the basketball,

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baseball, hockey is not doing it
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one, as I will look to
the division winners. Who what of the

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NFL last year that I think are
going to off this year? That comes

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your way at eight o'clock. All
right? You know Drew Henson, it

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was the one baseball game that I
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and it was a playoff game.
So he was already a high school legend,

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and he had committed to play at
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was going down there. And I'm
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game was at Brighton, and the
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the playoffs. You know, Henson's
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diamond. And then the other team, I don't remember who it was,

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but what I do remember is that
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And so the thought here is that
you're going to see a future major

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league pitcher throwing to Drew Henson,
and you know, this could be something

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special. So I went there and
just like baseball at any level, the

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people around you are going to add
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just was sitting around a bunch of
uh, I don't know. I say,

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number one Drew Henson Henson fans in
the world. I didn't have to

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have any background. These guys were
just reciting everything that the young man had

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done up to that point. Nobody
would pitch to him. He's the all

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time home run leader in the in
the world. In high school, he

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set the national record. And you
know the Babe Ruth of Brighton. I

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hear, you know, the first
at bat, you know, he steps

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in and they just walk him.
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you know, you hear the people
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a doubleheader against Howell, he was
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They had a plea to the other
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about you pitch to him? They
pit through one time to him smack a

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home run. According to this you
know legend around. I don't know.

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They were just fans sitting around him. But so the first three times that

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he went up, he was walked. And you're at the game, everyone's

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there to see one thing, but
they're not getting it. I mean,

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it's that's pretty obvious. But the
fourth time that Henson went up there,

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they decided to pitch to him the
opposing team, and the first pitch he

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hit, he had he hitded four
hundred and I don't know thirty feet left

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center boom hold run right on the
line, and it was everything that everyone

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came to see, including myself,
And it was pretty memorable, the sound

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to the bat. They won pitch
that they actually threw to him that you

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know, he he hid over the
fence. And never forget the guy,

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the guys that were sitting around me
and I said, uh, wow,

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man, that was you know,
something like that was worth it. And

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he said, this kid, this
guy claimed that he was at the first

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ever game that Henson played, and
he said, Henson, this is nothing

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new. His first at bat in
his first game, the first pitch that

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ever saw he hit the same spot
four hundred and thirty feet for a home.

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Ers like wow. So it lived
up to the hype. The one

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high school baseball game that I have
seen over the last thirty years. Now,

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yesterday, when I was driving around, I heard that the NBA was

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making a shift in their TV rights
that they were not going to be on

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TNT any longer. They were staying
on ESPN, but they were also going

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to go to NBC and they were
also going to stream NBA games on Amazon.

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All Right, It's kind of the
way the sports TV landscape is going.

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It's not the biggest surprise, but
and put a big question mark on

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the The TNT Show with Charles Barkley
NBA TNT. You know, I think

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people I don't know if they break
down this specific rating, but I think

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during the regular season, I think
more people watched the NBA on TNT,

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the pregame, the half game,
at halftime, postgame with Barkley and them,

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then they do watch it the game. I know myself, if I'm

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just flipping through during the regular season
and I land on an NBA game,

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I might watch for a couple of
minutes. But if I'm flipping through it

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and I see that it's the the
guys, Jack and Ernie and Barkley and

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Kenny Smith, I'm gonna watch more
of that. Now that's just my personal

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story, but I think people are
mostly like me. They will do that.

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But it brought up the question and
maybe I hope that it's not Amazon

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that says, you know, we're
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put them on Amazon on a Thursday
night. I would be interested to see

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how that works. Obviously those guys
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not about It's about you and me, about what we think about, you

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know, whether we would actually tune
in then to an Amazon to watch them.

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That would be interesting to see if
people did that. But it just

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made me think, like, this
is this is a if it's not a

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must watch, it's a watch even
more than watching the game. And how

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many sports shows on TV could you
really say that about? Could you say

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that I would watch this over a
game as a sports fan? I thought

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there must be others, And then
as I was driving around, I thought

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of a handful of them. In
the first five that I came up with.

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When I got home, I wrote
down because I knew I was gonna

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be on the radio this morning,
and I thought, Hey, what are

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the most iconic sports shows on TV
that are just must watches over even a

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game? I put that question out
there to you eight six six eight three

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eighty three eight sixty six eight three
eight forty eight forty three don't forget coming

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up at eight oh one division winners
that will fall off in the NFL this

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year. Dive into some NFL So
this could be you know, what's your

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favorite sports TV show of all time? It probably is gonna get you in

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the ballpark of thinking about iconic sports
TV shows that you will watch even over

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a game. The first thing that
I thought of was a show that I'm

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not even sure that's on TV anymore, but back in the day as a

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youngster, I would watch it over
a baseball game. Now, there might

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not have been baseball games on they
weren't on every day of the week back

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in the day, but there was
a show that was hosted by Mel Allen

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called This Week in Baseball. It
had the still one of the best theme

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songs of all time. I can
remember as a youngster it would it would

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fire me up, I dive it
over the couch and me swinging for the

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fences. It was awesome This Week
in Baseball and it was a great It

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was such a great show because one, you know that you didn't have baseball

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on every day. Two myself growing
up, it does element make me sound

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old. There was I didn't have
cable until I was fourteen years old.

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So finally when you'd get cable,
the Braves would be on and the Cubs

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would be on. That would be
it. But there was no exposure to

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National League teams at all except this
week in baseball. So you'd watched baseball

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all year long, you'd colleck baseball, cars, everything else, but you

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would get to the weekend and then
there would be this week in Baseball and

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then oh wow, you're watching the
Rets and you know, you're seeing the

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Dodgers. So it's why back in
the day, and there's probably a lot

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more reasons that the All Star Game
isn't something that people make sure appointment viewing

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or whatever. You know, I
always have to watch it. But back

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in the day, you watched it
for the same reason that you would watched

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this week in baseball. You never
see any of those guys. You never

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saw them on TV. And for
the All Star Game, you actually were

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watching it live. What an incredible
thing. Half the league you never saw.

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There's no interleague play, no,
they were not TV just for the

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highlights. So you know, the
All Star Game is a pretty big deal.

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So that would be the number one
on a TV show, sports show

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that I would watch actually over a
game, but I came up a list

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of about five. The other one
that I put that I think would be

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It's also goes to back in the
day, would be on the Canadian broadcasters

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at CBC. What's that stand for
Canadian Broadcast Channel? Probably all right?

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A Coach's Corner. There was an
old coach of the Boston Bruins named Don

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Cherry and after the first period of
hockey Saturday Night Hockey, they had coaches

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Corner again, great theme song.
Hockey Night in Canada had a great theme

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song. Coach's Corner had a great
theme song. You'd have his you know,

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his dog there and they would be
yelling at the officials and everything else.

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And then he came on and he
was just fired up to talk about

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hockey. It didn't matter if what
the game was, and I would watch

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coaches Corner and I might not watch
the rest of the game. It was

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just Coach's Corner. I liked Coach's
Corner more than I liked watching the games.

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So that fits. That fits into
a sports show that like NBA on

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TNT, that I would watch over
a game NBA on TV TNT this week

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in baseball, Coach's corner. Those
two are by top two on my list.

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I've got a few more again,
you could join us here. Eight

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sixty six eight three, eight forty
eight forty three. Is we make our

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way through on this Thursday morning.
Let's go to the phones. Then where

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are we going? Yeah? We
got Freddy on the line. Oh Freddy,

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Good morning, Freddy, Good morning, Dennis. I know we don't

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have a lot of time. I
actually had a take on the connorst Aaliens

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thing, but I really want to
touch on the Tigers. Listen. You

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know it's funny. I golf a
lot with a mutual friend of ours,

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Reager. We were just talking.
We were just talking last week about how

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you and Jeff always have the iconic
lists and it's we always gonna kick out

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of it, you know. So
if I can interrupt you for one second,

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if I get interrupt you for one
second. I did a baseball show

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with your golfing partner in two thousand
and seven and we would sit there after

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the games at Coomerica, and we
both learned a lot. The point the

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thing that we learned is that baseball
you just can't overdo it every game.

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Like they would win a game,
we would act like that team was going

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to the World Series. But when
they lost and we acted like it was

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like a postseason NFL loss, we
would just be like that, it's over.

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They're not going anywhere. And I
see your our friend on Twitter he

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still shows some of those remnants of
after every game, like there's a month

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ago. He was, Oh,
this is gonna be Rowland. It's gonna

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be a great summer, he said. I was like, well, maybe

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it will be a great summer,
man, I think this may probably when

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they started six and one. Oh, it's gonna be a great summer.

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But then, you know, yesterday
I saw him, you know, you

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know, rolling out the gallows how
the season was over. So yeah,

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go ahead, go ahead, Freddy. Sorry to interrupt you there, No,

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no, I'm glad you did.
He's a bit of a try on

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Twitter. I get a kick out
of that. But I you know,

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it's funny you bring up the two
thousand and seven Detroit Tigers season. Okay,

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Now, I don't want to I
don't want to raid at anyone's parade

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with the Detroit Lions, but not
to remember the two thousand and six Detroit

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Tigers. How good they did.
They got to their World Series, and

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everyone thought, look, what's gonna
happen the next four or five years.

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Two thousand and seven didn't they They
only won like seventy games. So I'm

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not saying the Lions will be the
tank this year, but don't expect that

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it's going to be the same thing
as last year. The Tigers proved that

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to you. So here's the thing
about the Tigers. Now, everyone's this

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is what I keep hearing. We
don't have hitting. Our pitching is great.

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Listen, we don't have hitting,
but our pitching is not great.

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It's not school Boll has never been
an ace on the contending team. He's

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a great pitcher, but he's never
been an ace on the contending team.

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The two thousand and six Tigers,
the reason they were good is they brought

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a veteran like Kenny Rodgers. They
push Verlander down to two. Now,

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Verlanders, can you bring a guy
like Verlander? You put him in at

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one. You push Schoolbo down,
you push h Clarity down. Now,

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you guys got you got these guys
in the right spot. You make your

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pitcher staff even better. If this
team wants to contend for the playoffs this

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year, which I'm not sure if
he does, I think he wants to

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see the young guys. But if
he flips the script, I think it

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would be a great acquisition, Dennis. If it's not Verlander, another picture's

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fine with me. But I the
package deal of Redman or Verland, it

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would be outstanding. And then the
first round of the playoffs, if you

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get there, I wouldn't I would
not want to face Verlanders Scooba and say

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clarity or resource. And that's kind
of my take on the Dennis Well,

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I like your take, you know, going through that and hearing it the

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way you put it out there.
Now, they have to they have to

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do something over the next month and
a half to put themselves in position to

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even I mean, I know this, we're talking about a little bit of

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fantasy here that then have to put
themselves in position to be able to do

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that. Yeah, you're right about
overall, Like you know, they're they're

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hitting. It stands out so much
where you look at the numbers and they're

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towards the bottom. The pitching had
a they just had a rough week or

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two here before last week at this
time, you put those guys out there,

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and for school Boy what you say
is true. I mean, that's

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the first time he was beat and
he had a streak of what fourteen games

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where he was unbeaten. He has
been what's gonna end up happening, Dennis,

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is this team one day, this
team very soon is gonna end up

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pitting and then they won't be able
to pitch. That's how baseball works,

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you know. I just kind of
my thing on it. That's just kind

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of you know, the law of
averages is they're gonna hit and then they

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won't pitch. So I think Vermlander
would be I just think a guy like

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Verlander could really change the outlook at
this team and then draw fans into the

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seats. I don't know, man, So I hear you, I hear

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you take on it. I hear
yours too, And I liked it,

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and I like the philosophical It's reminded
me of Jim Leeland. We just did

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have good combinations. We're not getting
good combinations. And when you're when you're

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struggling, they're out there. That's
what you're here, scuffling a baseball term,

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like, they just don't when they
hit, they don't pitch when they

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pitch. In another way around the
good teams, Yeah, they're doing an

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a they don't get a great night
in the mound. You know, they're

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smashing the ball. That is kind
of the way it works with the good

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teams. All right, I appreciate
it. You just need to be eating

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your salet. Why are you talking? Like? There you go, that's

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Freddy. He's dialed in on what's
going on straight ahead. You know,

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Freddy mentioned those Lions and a possible
drop off. We'll look at the division

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winners. Will the Lions drop off
after winning it last year? As Freddy

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just mentioned. We'll explore that coming
up in the eight o'clock hour here on

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