All right into the seven o'clock hours, seven o'h one to be exact.
In for Matt Shephard, I'm Tennis Fithian. I hope you're having a great
one out there. And last night the conference finals got underway in hockey with
Florida going into into New York and meeting the Rangers. And then the Western
Conference Finals in basketball got underway in Minnesota with Dallas stealing home court advantage in
getting the victory and Tigers get swept in Kansas City. They come home for
six games starting tonight against the Blue Jays. That's what's happening in the world
of the sports, numbers wise and results wise. Now, I am going
to give you my story of the one high school game that I saw over
the past thirty years. But it was noteworthy, and I'm looking across the
state of Michigan. Maybe you have been to a high school game that was
noteworthy that our audience would be like, Wow, that was a cool story.
Wow, nice job you were able to see that guy all the way
through high school. I'll give you my story here in just a second,
but I also wanted to ask you earlier this week, there was a story
about former Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, and the story was that Verlander would be
open. You know, the the Astros do not have the kind of record
that they want. Now you can they could probably come back everything else.
But just as it sits here right now, you look at Houston and you
know they're they're six games under five hundred. So the idea that they could
trade off a piece like Justin Verlander, is it the craziest notion? Is
this a crazy notion? He said that he'd be open to coming back to
Detroit. Verlander was asked about it. So you gotta think this one through
a little bit, and I'll ask you, you're a Tigers fan, would
you, if available, what you want to see Justin Verlander via trade come
back to the Detroit Tigers. I want your thoughts on that. At eight
six six eight three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer Hotline eight six
six eight three eight forty eight forty three Lander to the Tigers, now,
look you could. My first reaction was the Tigers are going to be sellers.
They're not going to be buyers at any kind of trading deadline. I
think everybody would agree with that, whether or not you know, Houston is
going to actually you know, be sellers. You know, of course that
remains to be seen. But we're just we're in theory thinking this, that
this, if it was available, would you want to do it as a
Tiger fan. The second thing that I thought of is that, you know,
the Tigers a couple of years ago with Migul Cabrera, he was trying
to get to three thousand hits and you know, five hundred home runs whatever
it was. And the couple of years before that, I always said that
when it ended with Miguel Cabrera, you know, his contract, the last
couple of years were going to be bad. It wasn't going to end nicely.
Now it's completely wrong about that. It was it was the highlight and
and otherwise, you know, forgettable season for the Tigers. Micel Cabrera was
the reason to go down to Comerica Park. People, the fans really enjoyed
his swan song. I felt, you know, I went back and I
thought about Victor Martinez when he was in his last year or two of his
contract. I mean, it was pretty bad, and you know, with
Cabrera being you know, over forty and you know, not being the Miguel
Cabrera. He was, and when he signed the extension, it was just
it was nothing against him. Really, it was that's the way teams did
it. You know, they gave you a couple extra years, and you
knew at the end it could get pretty bad and you might have to eat
a contract because you know, you just don't want to see an automatic out
or whatever it was. But there was a combination for the Tigers. If
the Tigers were any good, it might have ended up a little bit differently
with Cabrera. He might have ultimately not really been but he was halfway decent
and the Tigers were not really halfway decent, so it worked out well for
him. There weren't really any expectations for the Tigers. They weren't doing anything,
and Cabrera rehit you know, they're putting it up on in center field
of certainly every home run, and then when he finally did get to those
milestones, it was, you know, there was it was just a good
feeling about it. So you think about Verlander and how many ever starts I
don't know, want they get ten starts out of him. Five starts at
home certainly would be a draw from people that want to relive the old days,
go see JV one more time. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm
not making that sound like completely negative. I mean, if you're a baseball
fan, you're a Tigers fan a JV depending on how old you are,
and you don't remember eighty four, I mean that was the nine year stretch.
He was a rookie. In two thousand and six, the Tigers went
to the World Series. A couple of years after that, they went to
the World Series again. When he was in Detroit, he won the triple
Crowd of pitching. He was amazing. And then when they I had to
finally sell him off. It was funny that other teams were like, hey,
he's got so many innings and that arm, it's just there. It
was a buyers beware on them, and I was a little bit surprised at
that. But that's not really a part of the story is for you,
as a as a baseball fan, would you want to see Erlander back with
the Tigers eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three on the Meyer
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sports radio to twenty one thousand that now high school baseball across the state of
Michigan. I went to one game, and I think it was around ninety
seven. I think it was nineteen ninety seven, so it's been a long
time since I've been to a high school baseball game. It's just the way
it worked a lot of college baseball. When the strike hit in ninety four,
I turned my attention to college baseball, loved it, and then going
to work in Detroit in myself two thousand and six. Speaking of that two
thousand and six season, that was nice timing by me because the Tigers went
to the World Series and a lot of Major League baseball over the next fourteen
years for me, but no high school baseball. But the one high school
game that I went to see. I was working in ann Arbor and the
Wolverines had a commitment from an All American a USA to a Sports All America.
When they used to put out their recruiting page. Drew Henson from Brighton
was the All American punter, wasn't the quarterback although he was high. He
thought of as a sick of caller. But Henson was playing in high school
and I went to see him play. I'm going to tell you how that
game went. Just at a second straight ahead, but it was noteworthy.
I've got the JV question out there. Would you like to see him come
back to the Tigers? And one of the most iconic sports shows on TV.
Yesterday a big question mark about its future was put on it. I'm
going to explore that coming up straight ahead. Want to hear from you via
the text. You could call it in. We got the high school baseball
story, you got the j V question, and this iconic sports show has
a big fat question mark on it. We'll get to that straight ahead.
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for Matt Shepard this morning. How you doing. You're having a good Thursday.
I hope so hope you're. I hope that you have tomorrow off and
you're getting ready to enjoy a big, long, extended holiday weekend. Right
now, we're as you went expect talking some sports. I got a high
school a baseball story that I'm telling you. I got the question out there
about justin Verland or the former Tiger Why or why not would you want to
see the former Tiger hurler brought back to the Tigers via trade. And I've
got some this iconic sports show with a big question mark on it that I'm
going to get to straight ahead. You can join us on any of it.
Eight six, six, eight three eight forty eight forty three. And
that's tomayr Hotline. You had the Panthers winning in hockey over the Rangers,
and the Mavericks stealing Game one of the Western Conference Finals up in Minnesota last
night, and the Tigers got swept. They're coming back home after getting swept
by the Royals in Kansas City six game homestand starting with the Blue Jays.
So that's where that is at. You have got the numbers the buyer hotline
eight six six eight three eight forty eight forty three, and the text is
twenty one thousand. Tech Sports Radio two twenty one thousand. Ben Zost is
producing Ben. What are the what's the text line look like? One of
them says, we need hitting. Our pitching is our strength. Verlander will
cost way too much and that's from trash man Niles. Yeah, well,
Niles, that was my first Well what did I say? My first thought
was was are the Tigers gonna be in position? But yeah, part of
that is that if you're thinking about if they were going to be buyers,
they would be buying a bat, not an arm. So that is a
very I would say, uh uh, hitting the nail on the head there,
Niles. I'm with you on that part. You're not being sentimental,
You're you're you're talking uh straight up. Yeah, that makes that does makes
sense from that standpoint. Tigers can't hit elect they had pitching pretty good.
Let's bring back a pitcher. Oh wait a second, good job, Niles.
All right, the we got another one that says the team needs to
trade for Justin Verlander and Alex Bregman all thettle combinations. So you're absorbing some
salary which the Tigers could do. Now, So now does that have a
name on it? I like the thought pattern there. I believe that's from
Freddy. Freddy. Now, so Freddie's you know, he's thinking through some
things. You got Bregman, pretty good ballplayer, and you know the Astros
might be looking. You know. It's so you're getting Bregman. But and
to do that, you know, you're you're just attaching Verlander, who you've
got the sentimental value for from Verlander. So I like where Freddie's at Bergman
relatively young at thirty years old, he's been struggling a little bit, but
ain't bregg to the Tigers. Bregman not a bad thought there and could be
could be something that could happen there. I like where his thoughts are at.
Any other texts out there. We do have one about golf and the
Pistons. Golf and the Pistons, Yeah, could possibly be the the connection
there. Let's hear that one says what is more likely to happen this next
season? Goff has more tds or Pistons have more wins. Well, I
immediately would think golf, But let's think it through the Pistons. How many
games did they win? Ten games last year? Maybe a couple more than
that. Was it like thirteen maybe fourteen? Here fourteen wins? Golf had
thirty touchdown passes. That's an easy one to remember. So we're talking about
the Pistons doubling up their win total. First of all, is that you
know, you'd have to think that golf is going to be close to thirty,
if not above that next year. Thinking what the Lions were able to
do offensively, are the Pistons poised to double up their win total? I
don't see that. If I was not algorithm or anything else. If the
gambling sites just called me and said, hey, you got to put a
win total on the Pistons, I'm not putting it at anywhere twenty. I
mean, it's I don't know the but nineteen twenty twenty and a half is
my first thought on that on the Pistons wind total. So do I think
that golf could throw over twenty and a half touchdowns? If i'm again,
they probably do have this number and over an under number on Golf TV,
passes. That's probably I don't know, twenty seven, so golf by a
mile. On that particular text, I said this a couple of weeks ago.
I said it a month ago when I was filling in for Sheep about
the NFL Draft. It is it's taken me a while, and at times
I just pause to think about the Lions being having the this future in front
of them that is so bright, that has never happened before in our lifetimes.
And you look at the other teams like, uh, right, we
used to look at the Lions and it's you know, it's where it's at.
It's strange, but uh, it's it continues this off season. You
know, you had the the positivity through the Lions, you know, the
season and then you know it used to be that the Lions off season that
was Detroit Lion fans time asked. You know, the Lions always you know,
fell phase first when the season would happen. So then when the season
was over, it's like, oh now it's now it's time. Now it's
the real because then you'd had the draft and the Lions, you know,
they would take a periodically they would take a big swing and free agency,
which is first before the drafted, and the draft was always like the Lion
super Bowl, and you know, now it's not like that. It's different.
The draft was not like the Lions super Bowl, though it was such
a great it's just a great event in Detroit where the Lions were at.
So I have to take a minute, I think, every time I'm on
just to reflect about just how different it is with that. So yeah,
JV, that question is out there for you. You know. The other
part that I thought is it's a little bit it's a gimmick, you know,
bringing Verlander back, but if you can attach it with somebody else,
like Freddie said, I like where he was coming from there, all right.
So I was wanting to continue the baseball story that I was telling high
school baseball, and I'm looking for you. If you have a noteworthy story
about high school baseball player you saw, I'd like to hear from it.
This one was noteworthy. It was Drew Henson, who went on to play
a quarterback at Michigan and then went to the Yankees. You'd probably know his
story, did get to the NFL, made some starts and the Cowboys,
but did not have a great NFL career. Did not have a great baseball
career, but had close to a great, a great college career, and
if he would have come back instead of going to baseball, he was poised
to have a great year. I had to just jump right into it.
Coming up straight ahead plus the sports shows of the sports show on TV,
and it's got the big question mark on it. I'm gonna get to that
straight ahead, no fooling around, jumping right in that's gonna happen. Speaking
of the Lions, they did win the division last year, which again it's
fun. It's fun to say fun to mention at any point in the offseason.
The Detroit Lions won the NFC North. Coming up at eight o'clock,
we'll look at those division winners across the NFL, including Allions, and speculate
on which one of those teams is going to fall off this year after winning
the division. Spoiler, I don't think it's going to be the Lions.
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stepping up to the plate, swinging for the fences and talking with you.
Last night in the playoffs, you had both of the road teams winning,
the Panthers three nothing against the Rangers in New York and the Mavericks by three
five in Minnesota against the t Wolves. Those were both game ones. Tonight,
you've got Game one in the Western Finals Oilers visiting the Stars, and
then Game two of the Eastern Finals in the NBA, the Pacers seeing if
they can put it together and even up their series against the C's in Boston.
All right, I've got this high school baseball story about Drew Henson.
I'm also going to get to these most iconic sports TV shows. There's a
big question mark on one of them that had me putting together a list.
That's what I got coming up right now. Of course, you could join
us on what's on your mind out there? You got something if the basketball,
baseball, hockey is not doing it for you. Football at eight oh
one, as I will look to the division winners. Who what of the
NFL last year that I think are going to off this year? That comes
your way at eight o'clock. All right? You know Drew Henson, it
was the one baseball game that I went to over the last thirty years,
and it was a playoff game. So he was already a high school legend,
and he had committed to play at Michigan. That's the reason that I
was going down there. And I'm sitting way in the back at the playoff
game was at Brighton, and the attractive part of this game is that it's
the playoffs. You know, Henson's a you know, a legend on the
diamond. And then the other team, I don't remember who it was,
but what I do remember is that their pitcher had been drafted by the Tigers.
And so the thought here is that you're going to see a future major
league pitcher throwing to Drew Henson, and you know, this could be something
special. So I went there and just like baseball at any level, the
people around you are going to add or subtract to the experience. And I
just was sitting around a bunch of uh, I don't know. I say,
number one Drew Henson Henson fans in the world. I didn't have to
have any background. These guys were just reciting everything that the young man had
done up to that point. Nobody would pitch to him. He's the all
time home run leader in the in the world. In high school, he
set the national record. And you know the Babe Ruth of Brighton. I
hear, you know, the first at bat, you know, he steps
in and they just walk him. And I was a little disappointing, but
you know, you hear the people around like everybody walks him. Every time
a doubleheader against Howell, he was walked eight straight times until they just plead.
They had a plea to the other team, like, hey, how
about you pitch to him? They pit through one time to him smack a
home run. According to this you know legend around. I don't know.
They were just fans sitting around him. But so the first three times that
he went up, he was walked. And you're at the game, everyone's
there to see one thing, but they're not getting it. I mean,
it's that's pretty obvious. But the fourth time that Henson went up there,
they decided to pitch to him the opposing team, and the first pitch he
hit, he had he hitded four hundred and I don't know thirty feet left
center boom hold run right on the line, and it was everything that everyone
came to see, including myself, And it was pretty memorable, the sound
to the bat. They won pitch that they actually threw to him that you
know, he he hid over the fence. And never forget the guy,
the guys that were sitting around me and I said, uh, wow,
man, that was you know, something like that was worth it. And
he said, this kid, this guy claimed that he was at the first
ever game that Henson played, and he said, Henson, this is nothing
new. His first at bat in his first game, the first pitch that
ever saw he hit the same spot four hundred and thirty feet for a home.
Ers like wow. So it lived up to the hype. The one
high school baseball game that I have seen over the last thirty years. Now,
yesterday, when I was driving around, I heard that the NBA was
making a shift in their TV rights that they were not going to be on
TNT any longer. They were staying on ESPN, but they were also going
to go to NBC and they were also going to stream NBA games on Amazon.
All Right, It's kind of the way the sports TV landscape is going.
It's not the biggest surprise, but and put a big question mark on
the The TNT Show with Charles Barkley NBA TNT. You know, I think
people I don't know if they break down this specific rating, but I think
during the regular season, I think more people watched the NBA on TNT,
the pregame, the half game, at halftime, postgame with Barkley and them,
then they do watch it the game. I know myself, if I'm
just flipping through during the regular season and I land on an NBA game,
I might watch for a couple of minutes. But if I'm flipping through it
and I see that it's the the guys, Jack and Ernie and Barkley and
Kenny Smith, I'm gonna watch more of that. Now that's just my personal
story, but I think people are mostly like me. They will do that.
But it brought up the question and maybe I hope that it's not Amazon
that says, you know, we're gonna take this crew and we're going to
put them on Amazon on a Thursday night. I would be interested to see
how that works. Obviously those guys that get paid a lot, But it's
not about It's about you and me, about what we think about, you
know, whether we would actually tune in then to an Amazon to watch them.
That would be interesting to see if people did that. But it just
made me think, like, this is this is a if it's not a
must watch, it's a watch even more than watching the game. And how
many sports shows on TV could you really say that about? Could you say
that I would watch this over a game as a sports fan? I thought
there must be others, And then as I was driving around, I thought
of a handful of them. In the first five that I came up with.
When I got home, I wrote down because I knew I was gonna
be on the radio this morning, and I thought, Hey, what are
the most iconic sports shows on TV that are just must watches over even a
game? I put that question out there to you eight six six eight three
eighty three eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three don't forget coming
up at eight oh one division winners that will fall off in the NFL this
year. Dive into some NFL So this could be you know, what's your
favorite sports TV show of all time? It probably is gonna get you in
the ballpark of thinking about iconic sports TV shows that you will watch even over
a game. The first thing that I thought of was a show that I'm
not even sure that's on TV anymore, but back in the day as a
youngster, I would watch it over a baseball game. Now, there might
not have been baseball games on they weren't on every day of the week back
in the day, but there was a show that was hosted by Mel Allen
called This Week in Baseball. It had the still one of the best theme
songs of all time. I can remember as a youngster it would it would
fire me up, I dive it over the couch and me swinging for the
fences. It was awesome This Week in Baseball and it was a great It
was such a great show because one, you know that you didn't have baseball
on every day. Two myself growing up, it does element make me sound
old. There was I didn't have cable until I was fourteen years old.
So finally when you'd get cable, the Braves would be on and the Cubs
would be on. That would be it. But there was no exposure to
National League teams at all except this week in baseball. So you'd watched baseball
all year long, you'd colleck baseball, cars, everything else, but you
would get to the weekend and then there would be this week in Baseball and
then oh wow, you're watching the Rets and you know, you're seeing the
Dodgers. So it's why back in the day, and there's probably a lot
more reasons that the All Star Game isn't something that people make sure appointment viewing
or whatever. You know, I always have to watch it. But back
in the day, you watched it for the same reason that you would watched
this week in baseball. You never see any of those guys. You never
saw them on TV. And for the All Star Game, you actually were
watching it live. What an incredible thing. Half the league you never saw.
There's no interleague play, no, they were not TV just for the
highlights. So you know, the All Star Game is a pretty big deal.
So that would be the number one on a TV show, sports show
that I would watch actually over a game, but I came up a list
of about five. The other one that I put that I think would be
It's also goes to back in the day, would be on the Canadian broadcasters
at CBC. What's that stand for Canadian Broadcast Channel? Probably all right?
A Coach's Corner. There was an old coach of the Boston Bruins named Don
Cherry and after the first period of hockey Saturday Night Hockey, they had coaches
Corner again, great theme song. Hockey Night in Canada had a great theme
song. Coach's Corner had a great theme song. You'd have his you know,
his dog there and they would be yelling at the officials and everything else.
And then he came on and he was just fired up to talk about
hockey. It didn't matter if what the game was, and I would watch
coaches Corner and I might not watch the rest of the game. It was
just Coach's Corner. I liked Coach's Corner more than I liked watching the games.
So that fits. That fits into a sports show that like NBA on
TNT, that I would watch over a game NBA on TV TNT this week
in baseball, Coach's corner. Those two are by top two on my list.
I've got a few more again, you could join us here. Eight
sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. Is we make our
way through on this Thursday morning. Let's go to the phones. Then where
are we going? Yeah? We got Freddy on the line. Oh Freddy,
Good morning, Freddy, Good morning, Dennis. I know we don't
have a lot of time. I actually had a take on the connorst Aaliens
thing, but I really want to touch on the Tigers. Listen. You
know it's funny. I golf a lot with a mutual friend of ours,
Reager. We were just talking. We were just talking last week about how
you and Jeff always have the iconic lists and it's we always gonna kick out
of it, you know. So if I can interrupt you for one second,
if I get interrupt you for one second. I did a baseball show
with your golfing partner in two thousand and seven and we would sit there after
the games at Coomerica, and we both learned a lot. The point the
thing that we learned is that baseball you just can't overdo it every game.
Like they would win a game, we would act like that team was going
to the World Series. But when they lost and we acted like it was
like a postseason NFL loss, we would just be like that, it's over.
They're not going anywhere. And I see your our friend on Twitter he
still shows some of those remnants of after every game, like there's a month
ago. He was, Oh, this is gonna be Rowland. It's gonna
be a great summer, he said. I was like, well, maybe
it will be a great summer, man, I think this may probably when
they started six and one. Oh, it's gonna be a great summer.
But then, you know, yesterday I saw him, you know, you
know, rolling out the gallows how the season was over. So yeah,
go ahead, go ahead, Freddy. Sorry to interrupt you there, No,
no, I'm glad you did. He's a bit of a try on
Twitter. I get a kick out of that. But I you know,
it's funny you bring up the two thousand and seven Detroit Tigers season. Okay,
Now, I don't want to I don't want to raid at anyone's parade
with the Detroit Lions, but not to remember the two thousand and six Detroit
Tigers. How good they did. They got to their World Series, and
everyone thought, look, what's gonna happen the next four or five years.
Two thousand and seven didn't they They only won like seventy games. So I'm
not saying the Lions will be the tank this year, but don't expect that
it's going to be the same thing as last year. The Tigers proved that
to you. So here's the thing about the Tigers. Now, everyone's this
is what I keep hearing. We don't have hitting. Our pitching is great.
Listen, we don't have hitting, but our pitching is not great.
It's not school Boll has never been an ace on the contending team. He's
a great pitcher, but he's never been an ace on the contending team.
The two thousand and six Tigers, the reason they were good is they brought
a veteran like Kenny Rodgers. They push Verlander down to two. Now,
Verlanders, can you bring a guy like Verlander? You put him in at
one. You push Schoolbo down, you push h Clarity down. Now,
you guys got you got these guys in the right spot. You make your
pitcher staff even better. If this team wants to contend for the playoffs this
year, which I'm not sure if he does, I think he wants to
see the young guys. But if he flips the script, I think it
would be a great acquisition, Dennis. If it's not Verlander, another picture's
fine with me. But I the package deal of Redman or Verland, it
would be outstanding. And then the first round of the playoffs, if you
get there, I wouldn't I would not want to face Verlanders Scooba and say
clarity or resource. And that's kind of my take on the Dennis Well,
I like your take, you know, going through that and hearing it the
way you put it out there. Now, they have to they have to
do something over the next month and a half to put themselves in position to
even I mean, I know this, we're talking about a little bit of
fantasy here that then have to put themselves in position to be able to do
that. Yeah, you're right about overall, Like you know, they're they're
hitting. It stands out so much where you look at the numbers and they're
towards the bottom. The pitching had a they just had a rough week or
two here before last week at this time, you put those guys out there,
and for school Boy what you say is true. I mean, that's
the first time he was beat and he had a streak of what fourteen games
where he was unbeaten. He has been what's gonna end up happening, Dennis,
is this team one day, this team very soon is gonna end up
pitting and then they won't be able to pitch. That's how baseball works,
you know. I just kind of my thing on it. That's just kind
of you know, the law of averages is they're gonna hit and then they
won't pitch. So I think Vermlander would be I just think a guy like
Verlander could really change the outlook at this team and then draw fans into the
seats. I don't know, man, So I hear you, I hear
you take on it. I hear yours too, And I liked it,
and I like the philosophical It's reminded me of Jim Leeland. We just did
have good combinations. We're not getting good combinations. And when you're when you're
struggling, they're out there. That's what you're here, scuffling a baseball term,
like, they just don't when they hit, they don't pitch when they
pitch. In another way around the good teams, Yeah, they're doing an
a they don't get a great night in the mound. You know, they're
smashing the ball. That is kind of the way it works with the good
teams. All right, I appreciate it. You just need to be eating
your salet. Why are you talking? Like? There you go, that's
Freddy. He's dialed in on what's going on straight ahead. You know,
Freddy mentioned those Lions and a possible drop off. We'll look at the division
winners. Will the Lions drop off after winning it last year? As Freddy
just mentioned. We'll explore that coming up in the eight o'clock hour here on
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