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The Tigers clawing back again. Torque
labels this ball to the left center field,

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cannon fire into the camp and we're
tied again. That is the sound.

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That's the sound that you love to
hear on the bet of the spencil

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Torko center. That means that he
did everything right. The rhythm, the

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timing to two pitch is a fastball, and what do you do? You're

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making pay and Torques across that ball
to the left center tie this ball game

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up. All right, Welcome to
Xies and bros. On this Friday.

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We've made it through the week.
And that was, of course the sound

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of ballet sports and the Tigers game
last night or yesterday and they're lost to

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Texas. Spencer Torkelsen coming through to
tie things up. But Detroit again.

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The defense yesterday, what did we
say? We said, well, you

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know, the defense really isn't that
bad. They had three errors, but

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you know they've made eight on the
year. Are they really one of the

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worst defensive teams in baseball? That's
not even the point. They made three

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more errors yesterday and one was a
mistag by Jill or Shechella. How he

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missed that is still quite honestly a
little puzzling, or Sheella with an air,

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Veerling with an air, and Cole
Keith with a second straight game with

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an air. Again, what we
discussed yesterday was that maybe you're not necessarily

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overall concerned right now, but as
these things build and as you watch this

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team play, at some point you
form an opinion. Now when that is

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is really up to the individual.
I try not to form an opinion too

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quickly on a baseball team this early
in the season. Nineteen games in now

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ten and nine on the year roughed
up Jack Lighter, who couldn't control his

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fastball, but still couldn't come away
with the win because of their defense.

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Rightley Green gets a couple of hits, Mark Canna gets a couple of hits.

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Carry Carpenter with a big hit too, but he also had three strikeouts,

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one to end the game. Or
Selle had a couple of hits,

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Baya's had a couple of hits.
I think it comes to a point where

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you say to yourself, it's not
whether or not this team is good,

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it's whether or not this team can
win. Can this team win the division?

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I think that's what many people are
trying to answer and they're in Minnesota

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for a weekend series tonight. A
Minnesota team that is struggling offensively too,

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a Minnesota team that is five games
under five hundred, a Minnesota team that's

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lost four in a row. For
me, I sometimes look at a team,

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or oftentimes look at a team,
and then I start to measure it

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against others. I don't know how
you judge a team. I respect it

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however it is you feel without being
too emotional and too knee jerk. That's

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the hard thing about sports. It's
almost impossible, quite honestly. But when

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you look at a baseball team and
you see they're starting five, and you

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see their starting rotation, and you
see their bullpen starting five, they're starting

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nine, eight really, and then
they're starting rotation their bullpen, and you

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ask yourself, how many of those
guys do I want on my team.

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It's easier done in basketball, but
because you just seeing the five guys the

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entire time. But in baseball,
how many guys would you want this guy

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starting at third base for your team? Would you want this guy starting at

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shortstop for team or the team they're
playing? Do you want my guy the

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guy who's on your favorite team?
The team you're following compared to that.

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Do you want Spencer Charcoal Center,
Carlo Santana. We'll use the Minnesota series

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since it's coming up. Do you
want Edward Julian or Cole Keith? You

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want Willie Castro or Geo Orshella.
I'm plugging him into third base if that's

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all right. You want Carlo's Correa
who's now on the tendail or Kyle Farmer

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or Jave Bayez, want Alex Kirloff, Carrie Carpenter. That's how I look

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at it, and when you look
at Texas, of course, probably unfair

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because Texas is the defending world champion, but it's not like it's a team

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built on superstars. They're paid like
it, but are they superstars? Would

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you call Kyle Seeger such pretty damn
good player. I'm not a huge fan

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of him individually in my discussions with
him, but he's a pretty damn good

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player than three or four already.
Marcus Simeon, Hell yeah, really like

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Marcus Simon. He went three for
six yesterday. Good young player in Evan

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Carter. You like him? He's
only twenty one years old. Hard to

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judge right now? A Dooley Scarcia
absolutely. Wyatt Langford loved him coming out

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of Florida. Jonaheim, I think
Jonaheim is one of the better catchers in

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all of baseball in terms of all
around game, defensively and offensively. But

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if you also look at them,
you recognize they've got some guys maybe you

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wouldn't want Aodie Taveres Duran. Not
sure about Smith, right, I mean,

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it happens certain pictures. Okay,
I don't know enough right now about

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Josh Smith. Travis Jankowski is a
good fill in guy. I mean so,

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I guess my point is if you
build it with everyday players. And

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I'll go back to this constantly,
so you can roll your eyes if you

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want, But I think it's a
point worth making. I've established it and

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I'm going to use it as an
example on a pretty regular basis. This

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is why you want everyday players.
Question is due the Tigers have enough good

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everyday players. Monday morning we might
be talking about something completely different. After

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a weekend series sweep against Minnesota.
Don't know, the skeptic in you could

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say, eh, Minnesota's have very
good You're supposed to do that hard to

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sweep a team when you're of the
Tigers inflexibility. Maybe not so much with

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Texas, who's already established themselves as
a really good team and lead the West

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right now thanks to winning three out
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easier for a team like the Yankees, who after a good starter, Baltimore,

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who's got good young talent. Cleveland's
playing well again for crying out loud,

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they went again last night, Atlanta. We're seeing the same We're kind

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of seeing the same teams in a
regular basis, aren't we. Yeah.

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CBS sports articles recently, I ran
into this one from an author by the

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name of Matt Snyder who writes about
baseball, and he's kind of writing allowed

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discussing a baseball game with friends about
the number of scoreboard information he gets in

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baseball, and I'm wondering what people
think of this too. There's a lot

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of information in baseball. There's more
numbers in baseball than really any other sport.

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You can almost you can get into
a rabbit hole, and it's hard

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to get yourself out of it.
The different things and situations that players face,

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and that you can then project,
what's he batting in a one to

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two count, what's he batting with
runners on first and second? What's he

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batting against the fastball? How many
times is he going to write? What's

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his numbers when he's ahead, and
account what's the tendency of the pitcher.

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It's constant. As a guy who
called baseball for over five years, trust

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me when I tell you this,
you can get lost. It can be

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really challenging on what to decipher is
really important at that moment in time.

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Well, because it's so damn numbers
driven teams broadcasts some broadcasters feel like everybody

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wants to know all of it.
Here's what you have on the screen.

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If you're watching baseball. You've got
the game. You've got what is called

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the score bug that tells you Tiger's
four ranger seven, top of the eighth,

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what's the count? You see the
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and when there's a colored base in
yellow, that means a man's on.

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It's giving you the score, it's
giving you the inning, it's giving you

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the teams, it's giving you the
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That's just on the screen. Then
on the bottom third is what is

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called the scroll that is giving you
information on what's taking place in the world

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of sports. As you know it
scores from around Major League Baseball. Something

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may have happened that's important in the
NHL, there is an individual who is

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in charge of that and they tailor
that scroll to that market's needs. So

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in Detroit in the fall, you
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final, you'll see college football game
finals. Of your interest, or what

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we think is your interest, might
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So you get that idea. So
you have that all going on, and

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then you have at least in Detroit
or in the regions that carry Balley sports

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obviously not Pittsburgh, not Seattle,
not San Francisco, not Chicago, not

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Philadelphia. They're either Root or they're
NBC owned. But what you'll get is

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what's called the bally bar, and
that will give you a specific piece of

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information of the situation that is taking
place. Now col Keith is batting this

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in this situation a nugget of information. So you've got all that going on.

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On top of that, you've got
what is called a lower third piece

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of information, and the lower third
is situational. The Tigers are batting three

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p thirty three with runners in scoring
position. That's a lot to digest.

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That's not even the half of it. That's just on the television broadcast.

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What's going on on the scoreboard for
people in the ballpark. Oh and by

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the way, of course, you
will have certain moments that added information will

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provide. It will be provided.
Pitch sequence. This is how we got

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to three and two pitch count.
This is how many pitches he's thrown per

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This is how many pitches he's thrown
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it. Pitch velocity, the identification
of a pitch. You've seen the tracker

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in golf. For example, if
you were watching yesterday and you watched ludfig

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Oberg hit a two iron two hundred
and seventy one yards and have a putt

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for eagle, that's right. He
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one yards, simply pure. It
was beautiful. The ball gets tracked right,

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of course, same thing happens in
baseball. The amount of we would

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call them toys that you can use
in a broadcast is incredible and it's awesome.

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But how much of it do you
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didn't even dive into what's on the
score board these days. It's you've heard

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the phrase paralysis by analysis. That's
what it feels like. What is it

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you need and what is too much. That's what I'm wondering from you.

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the writer's coming from. I do. I could see that it's almost too

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much. And then if you want
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want? It used to be,
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formed two with a two point four
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batting average against, we've got whip, we've got walks, we've got strikeouts,

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we've got innings pitch, we've got
complete games, we've got shutouts.

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We've got so much that has broken
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need to give it to fans.
We used to have this discussion all the

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time when we show the starting lineups, what number should we show to the

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side of the name because batting average
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we had conversations with members of the
Tigers front office. What do you go

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by? What's the most important thing
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is it slug? Is it ops? So they gave us the information

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ops, and my question to them
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understand it? That's what I wonder, and I'm not sure they could even

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answer the question, what do you
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After a bit, when we return, we replay our interview with Max

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fifth, I'll be in Detroit for
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three until six for the world famous
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