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Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

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I'm forty. Go ahead, make
my day every single week. I

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put my freaking heart and soul into
this. I don't go out there and

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laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's
funny to me. I don't wanna go

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out there and get embarrassed on Monday
night football fun of everybody. I think

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this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from

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yesterday. Still the same person I
was yesterday, and I got the same

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thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You

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play to win the game. You
don't play to just play it. That's

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a great thing about sports. You
play to win, and I don't care

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if you don't have any wins.
You go play to win. When you

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start telling me it doesn't matter,
you can retire, get out because it

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matters. Back for another week here
on Exus and Bros. I hope you

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had a great Father's Day. I
really hope that you had a chance to

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spend it with your father, or
you as a father, you got a

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chance to spend it with your kids. That's what it's all about. Man.

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Now we begin the work week,
very similar fashion when it comes to

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baseball, another Tiger's loss. Thirty
four up and thirty seven down. Now

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for Detroit, Houston beats him full
to one to win the weekend series.

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Somebody told me before this series began, they said, look, I Meanton

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is not the Houston of years gone
by. You know, they're very susceptible.

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They're not very good. There's certain
players. For example, Jose abray

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You, who hasn't been there very
long, was waived by Houston the other

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day, which was interesting. But
they still have Jose l two. They

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he had a three run jam.
They still have Alex Bregman, they still

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have Kyle Tucker, they still have
Jordan Alvarado. They still have guys on

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that team that you would take over
guys on your team. So they may

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not be the team they once were. They may not win that division,

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they may not make the playoffs.
They're nine games back right now of Seattle

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in the West. But they still
have better players than Detroit does. So

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the Tigers lose the game, they
lose the series. They were no hit

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through seven innings, and there was
great disappointment, borderline disdain for the inopportunity

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or the opportunity to see a no
hit or throne runout. Blanco had the

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chance to do that, but he
was pulled after ninety four pitches. Strike

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out a season hot, season tying
high eight only allowed three base runners via

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the walk, and afterwards he told
the media, I wasn't going to finish

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that game anyway. Why did it
matter so much to even Tigers fans to

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see a guy try and complete the
no hitter? He's six outs away.

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It's emotional this one. And look, you've been listening to this long enough

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with me, and you know,
I get tired of the pitch count.

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It's not the way it used to
be. I know, not everything can

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be the way it used to be. I'm not going to bring up the

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great pictures of the past and the
number of pitches thrown. I'm not going

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Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton and Mickey
Lolich and Tenny McLain and Bob Gibson.

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I'm not doing that, all right, in this situation, knowing the pitcher

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a the situation. Okay, through
seven innings at this time of the year,

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already at ninety four pitches, how
deep do you need him to go?

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For me? I didn't have an
issue with it. I wonder why.

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I understood why. Joe Espada said, you know what, we're going

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to go to the bullpen. You
got good enough guys out there anyway,

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Ryan Presley, Josh Hater. Bottom
line is Houston got the win. You

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can talk all you want about wanting
to see a no hitter. You're being

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selfish, You're being shortsighted, You're
not being realistic. Ninety four pitches through

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seven innings, he's got at least
six more batters. I know you're hoping

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that it's one or two pitches per
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So it's fine. We're kind of
clinging onto very thin threads here as

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Tigers fans. The bigger story should
be trying to determine whether or not you

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think Houston is all that, and
losing another series to Houston, losing another

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series in general, that should be
the concern. We said this, and

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we've said it for a long time
and we will continue to say it that

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how do you get back into things. You get back in by winning series.

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That's how you do it. And
Detroit beat the Rangers in a series.

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They split with the Red Sox in
a series, all good stuff.

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Beat the Blue Jays in a series. Very happy, very proud, should

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be, but it's not consistent enough. It's just not They just don't have

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the lineup. And when kent to
Mayada is on the bump and he gave

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up four runs and six innings yesterday, and by the way, he threw

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ninety four pitches. We look at
Blanco and they're like, hey, ninety

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four pitches through seven, he's got
a no hitter. Kent to Mayada threw

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ninety four pitches through five innings.
He's not around the plate that much,

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fifty five strikes. It's just not
a good mix, not where it should

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be. So there's your situation with
the Tigers. It is borderline. It's

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getting to the point now where you
and I are like, okay, whatever,

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we shrug our shoulders. When we
move on. The word apathy comes

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to mind. It's getting there.
They're in Atlanta tonight for a series against

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the Braves. Rhys Olsen will throw
for Detroit, Max Freed will throw for

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Atlanta. But that's what it's,
that's what it's become. You look for

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the score. You might peek at
the overall record to make sure you know

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where you're at. There are eleven
games back. By the way, you

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might click on the wild card situation, they're five and a half out there

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with teams like now. Toronto's ahead
of them, Boston is ahead of them,

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Minnesota is ahead of them, Tampa
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The defending world champion Rangers are a
game back of them. You feel

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comfortable with that, You feel like
people who are writing, Hey, this

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is where they are in the wild
card. Do you honestly believe that this

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team has a chance at that When
you look at the numbers, there's a

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part of you that says, yeah. But I want to know, deep

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down inside inside your gut. You've
watched this team on a regular basis.

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You've seen them when they've played well, you've seen them when they've played poorly.

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I'm not saying this just because they
were no hit through seven inning yesterday.

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Okay, other team's trying to win
too. I get it. I

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completely understand, and you gotta give
Blanco and the Astros credit. But at

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some point you're gonna stop tipping your
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Disappointment is a is a tough word. I mean, we did battle.

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We obviously couldn't get anything started against
him. The three walks. You

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know you have a chance with two
outs, but he wiggles out of it,

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and then he just continued to hit
spots and throw a lot of different

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pitches. I mean, he's been
really good all year. He's kind of

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having a breakout year, so we
knew we were gonna need to try to

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create some pressure on him, get
some innings going, and with no hits.

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It's it's hard. You know,
we're just trying to get get guys

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on base to try to get back
in the game after they hit the big

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three run homer, So you know, I didn't know I saw that they

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started warming guys up. I didn't
know if he was going to go try

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to get further deeper into the game. But we're just trying to get get

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hits and get and get runs.
I mean, that's the whole point.

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I mean, we're trying to win
the game. So I don't think it's

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getting through five or grinding to get
through five has anything to do with Atlanta.

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We wanted to win today, I
mean it. You know, the

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walk to McCormick that set up the
al two v at bat and then we're

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down by four. Him settling in
gave us a chance to to still be

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within striking distance for the game.
So, you know, obviously we're in

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the middle of this road trip.
We had a chance to win the series

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and we didn't. A J.
Hinch following the Tigers four to one loss

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in Houston years today, the courtesy
of Valley Sports. It stings more for

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a J. Hinch when you lose
at Houston you're ex teams, no doubt

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about that. You could tell he's
reaching though, he's trying. He's trying

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to find some type of reasoning behind
this, and you could make the argument

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that he's trying to find some type
of reasoning to keep his team on the

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upswing as a positive. I know
it's a really long season. You know,

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you play one hundred and sixty two
games. Listen, I've lived it.

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It can wear on you, There's
no doubt about it. But you

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see how quickly it can sneak up
on you. Suddenly you know we're mid

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June, obviously, suddenly you're seventy
one games deep. You're almost at the

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midway point. Now, we used
to talk about giving teams players time,

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right we've said let it be until
what the Sparky Anderson forty games in and

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even at that point, if you
recall, I said, look, we're

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about the quarter pole. I'm going
to give it a little more time.

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When is your judgment? When are
you recognizing Nope, this ain't it.

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Because I'll be the first to admit
I'm wrong. I expected, I suppose

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expectations, and what you think is
going to happen. They could be two

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different things. But I expected this
team to win the division. And there's

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a part of me that is a
little naive still in the sense that because

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it has been so long, and
because this team has not been good and

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not been built the right way,
nor has its farm system, I truly

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believe, you know what. I'm
tired of being patient. I'm tired of

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suggesting it's going to be another year. I'm tired of preaching to you that

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the young kids have to develop and
it's time for something to happen. So

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I said before the season began in
the offseason, thinking that they were going

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to do more than they did.
Quite honestly, I'm not giving myself an

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excuse, but I thought they were
going to do more than they did.

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I said they're going to win the
division. Yes, part of that is

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based off the other teams not being
as good as they have proven to be.

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Did not think Cleveland would be this
good, especially under our first year

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manager, a guy who's never managed
at any level, Stephen Vote. Yes,

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Kansas City has greatly improved. Did
not expect that. Minnesota's about where

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I thought they'd be. I thought
that would be Detroit's stiffest competition in the

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division. So yeah, I miscalculated, There's no doubt I think most people

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did with Cleveland and Kansas City.
But that's no excuse. I don't think

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it should be a bad thing that
my expectations were for this team to win

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the division. Some people may say, you set yourself up. You're the

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one who thought it was going to
happen, and you should have known better.

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My argument to that has always been, why don't you expect more of

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your team? Why don't you think
this team should do more to force the

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narrative. We have enough, especially
with writers, we have enough people saying,

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well, you know, you've got
to understand where they are. Oh,

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I'm fully aware of where they are. I just think it can be

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changed quicker than the way it has
been, and there are reasons for that.

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The biggest reason, let's face it, I mean, without putting too

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much pressure on the kid, the
biggest reason this offense has struggled is because

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Spencer Torkelsen has not been that guy
this year, and he's been doing very

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well at Toledo, So give him
credit there. But that's that's huge.

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Okay, that is a There are
a lot of their offense, a lot

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of what expectations were going into the
season, were based on his productivity not

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getting it. Okay, can you
overcome the underdevelopment of one player? You

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should be able to. You should
have an enough to make that up at

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least in the short term. Maybe
not in the long term, maybe not

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all season long, but in the
short term, through a few weeks,

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maybe a month. If that player
struggles, you should have enough to overcome

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it until that person can either a
get back on track or be you can

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find someone who can. It was
a mix, and I should have recognized

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this. It was a sensitive mix
that forced you to require a lot of

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different unproven pieces to be proven.
The expectation was Riley Green would be as

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good as you think he can be, and perhaps he is. The expectation

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was Spencer Torkulsen was going to do
something similar he did to a year ago

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and put up those types of numbers
he has not. The expectation was Cold

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Keith was going to be the type
of player you signed him to that contract.

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The expectation was Carrie Carpenter was going
to be a power bat in your

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lineup. That's a lot to expect
of younger players, and I'm blaming myself

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here. Carpenter's injuries. Green's been
pretty good, Torkosen underperformed, Keith underperformed.

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Nothing has really hit. The ability
to overcome that then rests on Geo

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Orschella, Mark Canna, Matt Vierling, Andy A Banyez, Javier Baiez and

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the dual catchers. What's the proving
entity there? It isn't There isn't one.

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You may like certain names that I
just mentioned. Andy A Banyez for

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example, not an everyday player.
Markana for example, has improven it,

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but one year Geo or Schila tough
to stay healthy, Matt Vierling has improven

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it as an everyday player, Javy
or Bias major disappointment. Neither catcher done

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the either. That's that's the sensitive
mix I'm referring to. I haven't even

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mentioned the pictures. I know we
got some texts on this. We'll get

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to that when we come back.
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here coming up. Never got through
the uh well, the sports headlines because

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we got caught up in a tiger's
discussion there and for good reason. Bryson

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de Shambo, did you epen to
watch that theater? He wins the one

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hundred and twenty fourth plane in the
US Open the Dramatic Power on eighteen to

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edge Rory McElroy by a stroke.
It was De Shambo's second Open championship.

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McElroy missed a putt on sixteen from
what they measured at two point six inches,

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and then missed a four foot putt
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that is there was a graphic afterwards
that indicated McElroy had made four hundred and

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ninety six straight putts of was it
three feet or four feet or less,

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and he missed that two point six
footer. So he ends up bogeying three

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of the last four finishes as a
runner up for the second straight year.

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Meanwhile, Deschambeau, who at one
point was widely hated by those who follow

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golf, seems to have won them
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He becomes the fourth player since two
thousand to win multiple US Opens under the

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age of thirty, Ernie Els,
Tiger Woods, Brooks, Koepka. He's

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also the twenty third player ever to
win multiple USO Opens. Here's my question

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for you, and Ben's going to
put this out on social media if you

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follow us on X's and bros up
it's up. Thanks Ben. Here's the

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question, did Bryson, did Shamba
win it? Or did Rory McElroy lose

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it because Royal McElroy. He made
some clutch putts and made some big time

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shots down the stretch. He also
miss some putts those two that I referenced.

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De Shambo was erratic off the tee. It's not like he went in,

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swooped in and captured it and took
it away or anything like that.

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I suppose with McElroy on eighteen more
than anything else, which by the way,

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was not an easy putt. It
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even from four feet. But I
suppose that's the reason people would look at

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it like that. You know what, he choked it away? I hate

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that word. Royan McElroy has won
four major championships. He knows what it

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takes to win. Do you really
think he choked or he missed a putt?

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Now I'm not a huge fan,
but and I sure as hell don't

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like the way he ended things.
I'm sure you saw that did not talk

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to the media, would not join
NBC for their postgame conversation, and wouldn't

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even talk to the general media.
He just got it his car and stormed

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off. The optics for that are
not good. He looks like he looks

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like a baby, looks like a
sore loser, looks like a poor sport.

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I understand the emotion. You're ticked
off. You don't want to deal

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with all these questions. It comes
with the territory. Man, this is

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all part of it. He should
know better. I thought the coverage is

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pretty damn good from NBC. Either
way, Deshambo is your champion. And

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there's a there's a term called scrambling
and golf. All us golfers out there

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recognize it. You're not at your
best and you're doing everything you can just

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to preserve and get through the round
or find your stroke. It seemed like

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that was rather constant for Deshamba all
day long. Just could not find the

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fair way with any of his drives. I so there were a couple of

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things that I thought was this was
going to happen had he lost, and

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he obviously he won, but had
he lost, this was what I think

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was going to be the theme.
A. They had a great shot of

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him on the practice tee changing his
driver head. So he has one of

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those tools, as do many of
us who play the game. And you

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can take one head off and put
a new head on, or you can

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adjust you know the degree of loft. There's a lot of different things you

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can do with it. He completely
changed it out and it turned out to

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be it sure didn't look like it
benefited him by the way he hit the

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ball off the team. So that's
number one. Number two is why do

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you keep going to the driver when
you're spraying it right and left and it

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was more right than left. Why
are you constantly going back to the driver.

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This is a guy who hits his
three with three hundred and fifteen yards,

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so why not just use three wood? I was thinking about when he's

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getting ready to win that tournament.
I said to myself on Thursday, when

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we were broadcasting live from the tenth
Annuel Meyer Classic, I said, this

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is a course, this is a
course that does not suit Bryson Deshamba very

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well. And I actually picked Oberg
and I felt pretty good about that pick

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until late Saturday. He was in
the lead and he looked unflappable, and

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then he crumbled, ended up with
a triple on a hole and then struggled

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mightily and never really regained his focus
or game in general. The speaking of

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the LPGA Classic, Lilia Vu won
it in a playoff over Lexi Thompson and

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Grace Kim fifth career LPGA Tour win
for vu last time. We will see

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Lexi Thompson at the Meer Classics.
She's retiring at the end of the year

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and boy, what a gracious young
woman she is. It was great to

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see her there at the Blackfield Country
Club. Lions has signed a kicker,

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Jake Bates. They ink him to
a two year contract. He connected on

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twenty one of twenty eight few gold
attempts for the Michigan Panthers this past year.

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That included a couple of sixty yarders
won sixty four yards away to win

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it all. Lions fans have got
to be fired up over that. Let's

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see if he wins the job first
and foremost. And Game five of the

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NBA Finals is tonight in Boston.
Celtics up three games to one. Some

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say somebody one of my son's friends
said that they feel like Boston lost on

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purpose so they could clinch it at
home. And I thought that that is

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the biggest load of crap. Players
don't do that just so they can sell.

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They're going to get a parade for
crying out loud. They may go

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back to the arena first, wherever
the parade route might be, you wrap

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it up as quickly as possible.
Everybody knows that you don't try and mess

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around and decide, you know what
what we're gonna do. We're gonna lose

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this game. We're gonna go back
home, and we're gonna win it in

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front of our fans. What if
you don't not working? It's not the

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way it works. Sorry, all
right. We gave you the poll question.

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It's on our Twitter pool. We
invite you to vote as often as

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you like, and we'll give you
the results before we get out of here

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on a Monday. Then, I
know we've got some texts regarding the Tigers,

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so fire away, buddy. Yeah, we got one and says I've

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got a feeling that if the Tigers
had faced Justin Verlander pitching on Saturday,

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they would have been swept by Houston
in the weekend series. That's a good,

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good point. They put up a
lot of hits, a season high

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nineteen, a lot of runs as
well. One would that would lead you

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to believe, yes, all right, So I'm gonna somewhat concur with you.

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I just you know I'm not gonna
I'm not giving it all to Justin

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Verlander shutting Detroit down because strange things
can happen. I mean, look at

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Trek scoobl in Game one. Okay, So but I hear, I hear

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what you're saying, and I tend
to agree with it, because you know

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ver Lander, especially pitching against his
old team. At some point, it's,

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you know, perhaps that we move
on speaking of that real quick.

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It's it's made me realize something regarding
Justin Verlander. And I've said this for

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a while. He's he seems bionic
to me. He's simply amazing. It's

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been fun to watch such a Hall
of Fame player. He's is this year

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seven in Houston, I believe,
Yeah, year seven. It's it's really

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six and a half because he spent
a little bit with the Mets, right,

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okay, so seven years in general
with Houston. He spent thirteen in

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Detroit. Justin Verlander's going in the
Hall of Fame. We know that he

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has won two Cy Youngs, one
with Detroit, one with Houston. Right,

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forget about the All Star stuff,
but whatever the case may be,

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this is a guy who's how many
times he won the nine time All Star?

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Okay, do you think he goes
in as an Astro or a Tiger,

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an Astros player or a Tigers player. He's won two World Series with

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Houston. Okay, granted, Oh
he's won three cy Youngs. I'm sorry,

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Okay, Yeah, he's won three
cy Youngs, two of them in

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Houston. If you were him,
be honest with yourself. Okay, try

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to take your the heart of Detroit
out of you. I know that's impossible,

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but just try to. He's won
Rookie of the Year in Detroit.

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He's won an e He's won a
couple of E r A titles, one

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in Detroit, one in Houston.
He's won two Cy Youngs in Houston.

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He's won two World Series in Houston. Forget the All Star stuff, because

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that's that's not as important as the
other ones. Fair to say. Okay,

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he's won an ERA title with each
team. Who you going in as,

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honestly, who you go in as? You're trying to tell me you

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go in as a Tiger just because
they've drafted you. If you had gone

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to Houston and played three years,
I understand why you would think that.

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But he's accomplished more. Yes,
I understand. The dominance really began as

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remember the Tigers. Yeah, he's
accomplished more as a Houston Astros pitcher or

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as much, if not more,
than he has as a Detroit Tigers pitcher.

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Twice. As the Tigers, he
led the league in wins twice.

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As a member of the Astros,
he led the league in wins three times.

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As a member of the Tigers.
He led the league in strikeouts two

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times. As a member of the
Houston Astros, he led the league in

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strikeouts. When people bring up Justin
Verlander, I think of Detroit as well,

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because we're from here and because he
was the first round pick in two

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thousand and four out of old dominion. Yeah, I'm with you, totally.

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Still hard to believe the Padres took
Matt Bush over him, but yeah,

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number two overall. Absolutely, I'm
I'm just looking at it from a

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player's perspective, and I would ask
you to look at it from a very

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objective perspective. Have some perspective.
Are you thinking he goes in as a

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Tiger only because you're from here and
it's your favorite team, or are you

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looking at it objectively and saying where
were his best years? And don't tell

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me about the individual accomplishments, even
though I've already given you that they're as

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many in Houston as there were in
Detroit. Don't give me the individual perspective,

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because you and I always come to
this conclusion, where did you win

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or did they win? That's what
you'll tell me. You'll tell me the

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difference between this guy, Charles Barkley
and that guy, whoever it is you

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want to bring up, Dennis Rodman, number of championships, Ted Williams,

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Joe Dimagio. This is what you
get Tom Brady, everybody else. Here's

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the difference. Tom Brady won seven
rings, Okay, this guy only won

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one. Well, hold on a
second. If you're going to use that

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analogy, and it's fair, if
you want to put the difference between one

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player and another, I think it's
fair and I understand it. But if

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that's the case, then why wouldn't
you use it in this situation. His

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championships, his wins, his winning
seasons, they were in Houston, not

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in Detroit. So if we're going
to use that criteria, then the criteria

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has to be consistent and it has
to begin and end with him going in

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as an astro. That's my belief. That's how I look at it.

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If you're trying to differentiate best quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers. Well,

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Rogers has only got one MVP member. We said this last week,

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who's it? Wasn't our idea.
Somebody brought it up on social media they

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said whose career would you rather have? Or somebody asked that of c J.

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Stroud and c J. Stroud was
talking about I'd rather have the championships,

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not the MVPs, like Aaron Rodgers. Remember that. Okay, how

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is it any different here? The
difference is he's one of us. The

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difference is he was a Detroiter and
he was drafted and developed by Detroit.

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That's what the difference is. But
you have to take that out of it.

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And that's what I keep bringing that
up. I keep trying to remind

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you of that. That's the emotional
side of things. I need you to

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take the emotion out of it.
And it's the reason he should go in

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to see Houston astro. And it
pains me for me to say that,

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