October 3, 2025 • 11 mins
Tigers analyst Bobby Scales joins the show to discuss the Tigers' massive win to advance to the ALDS. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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are a bit too short, and he's nowhere to be
found when it's his round. Uh, there's one Heinegen zero zero.
But he's our best mate, and even though he's always
banging on about dast ninety percent past completion, there's no
one we'd rather watch the match with. To the sports
(00:27):
that bring us together, Heineken zero zero.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's so much rugby on Sports Extra from Sky They've
asked me to read the whole ad at the same
speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end,
here goes this season. Sports Extra is jam packed with rugby.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
We've got exclusive action from the UARC in every match,
from the Champions Cup on Premier Sports and the Cultnation
Series on TNT Sports and much more. That's the UARC,
European Rugby and autom Internationals all the same place. Get
more exclusively live tournaments than ever before in Sports Extra
jam packed with rugby.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Here there is a lot of rugby. Gets Sports Extra
and Sky or stream it with now search Sports.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Extra Bobby's Scales has done a fantastic job, not just
on radio, but making the transition to television as well.
Of course, he looks good, always looks good, so it
makes sense that he does television and he joins us
her on X's and Bros. Bobby's good to talk to you,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you, Jeff?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
How you doing? Man? I appreciate that checks in the
mail man.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, you look great. You
always look good, but you even look better on TV.
And I really appreciate and respect the transition because it's
not always easy. What do you think this team proved
to us and itself with a series winning Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think it's two things. I mean, listen, at the
end of the day, Sheff, you know me well enough
to know that, uh, you know, I'm not really going
to dance around stuff like right the Unfortunately, the collapse
was real. It was real, like they lost the lead
they had. They were a driver's seat. But I think
they proved themselves they had another level of resiliency, and
that's that's going to bear food this year because they're
(01:59):
definitely not done yet. Uh and it's gonna be three
with some of the Peces that are in that old
English d for years to come. And I also think
it's important they won that game, a deciding game in
that building against that team because, as you know, weird
things have happened with that team in that building. Uh.
And it just seems like one of those those benchmarks
(02:20):
sheet You had a tough time getting Plass past Cleveland.
You know, a funny thing's happened with them late all
the time. But they slayed the beast and they're moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You said the collapse was real. That's a that's a
tough thing to fight through. You you've had to do
that as a major League baseball player, yourself, as a scout,
as a coach. What kind of toll does that take
on a player?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh, it's it's mentally exhausting because you're doing here's the thing,
and the way Aj handles this team with the level
of consistency he does is absolutely the only way to
do it. I mean, this is what is built on
the marathon. It's built on the a longevity, and you
want to have that. You want to have those routines.
You want to have that, but also too, like when
(03:07):
you're going, when you're in the midst of going through
a stress they went through, it is extremely difficult to
continue to maintain that. Hey, listen, we just got to
keep doing what they're doing, keep doing what we're doing,
keep go, stay with our routings, stay with our preparations,
stay with this, stay with that. This is not a
football season, either college or pro, where it's a it's
a really short sprint. You've got you have to make.
You have to have the urgency of changings. Now you
have to resist that urge. So it's hard. It's hard
(03:29):
when you're doing everything you're going, you're giving max effort,
you're giving max preparation, and it just seems like every
night you're figuring out a way not to win the
baseball game. And so I think I think it's hard
for those guys to fight through it. But I think again,
winning this series watches a lot of that away.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Bobby Scale's the outstanding analysts on radio and television for
the Tigers, joining us on the Lindsay Hunter Foundation guest
line on this Friday morning, is the Tigers look forward
to Seattle. At what point do you think Tigers fans
will forget the fact that this team did not win
the Division failed to close it out even though they
led by fourteen on July eighth. Is it now that
(04:07):
they're in the Alds, do you think they have to
take another step or do you think they need to
get to the World Series to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, don't think. I think you stop worried about it now,
because at the end of the day, as a matter
of fact, I'll be honest with you, I think you
got to stop worried about it when you make the playoffs.
And here's why twelve teams in baseball make the playoffs eighteen, don't.
You're in the dance, right, and when you're in the dance,
you have a chance, right. And so not only do
you have a chance, you beat You want a series
(04:35):
against a good Cleveland baseball team, and you're going on
and you've got to face a good scale Marits team
with tons of pitching, so it's going to be another challenge.
But yeah, listen, you're in it. You're still in it.
And there's teams that went home, and now you know
that that twelve is down to six and you don't
one to six, So don't worry about everybody else. Worry
about your squad.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You've had to live through this plenty because in baseball,
and you and I have talked about this one sixty
two people's second guest constantly. It's it's nauseating, quite honestly.
But the pitching for Detroit outside of Terrek Schoubl, the
short leash with Mice, the short lease with Flaerty as well,
was to me just a little surprising considering how well
(05:14):
they were pitching. Do you think aj Hinch will go
into the Seattle series? Scooble gives me an extended game.
Everybody else, I'm going to mix and match the best
I possibly can and not worry about how long my
selective starter goes.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's it. I don't think there's I think you're seeing,
you know the one Aja always says, you'll see you know,
you see what I'm thinking about what I'm doing. And
he doesn't play around, especially in his environment and these
because no, you know, you sit around the media scrum
and you know, people ask him, hey, what do you
think about this? And you want to think about that,
so you'll see, You'll see what I'm thinking about what
I'm doing. And he went and got ac early the
(05:49):
other day. Uh And was it four and two thirds
for flarity yesterday, if a third something like that. So yeah,
I mean he gets a match up he wants, or
he targets the match up he wants. He's going to
get that bulk and ut gets to it, he's gonna
go ahead and make the move. And that's what he
believes in. That's how he images and and and you know,
it's it's there's, it's it's born some fruit.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Lately, I've told anybody who will listen, it's great to
get by Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Because I love Jose Ramirez. I respect the hell out
of Stephen Kuwan and Stephen Vote did a really good
job with this team. But Seattle is a different animal
because their lineup is long, and their lineup has power,
and their lineup scores runs man, And like you said,
the pitching. I don't know if Brian wu is going
to be available, but they've got some guys, They've got
(06:35):
some dudes, and Muno's at the back end. What will
be the biggest challenge playing against Seattle? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it's it's it's it's handling that pitching, because
like you said, if the game gets to Munios, it's
like the game getting the Class A. More often than not,
it's it's gonna be a tough go for whoever is
in front of them, and in this case obviously is Tigers.
But I think you got it the same thing I
said again the Cleveland series. You've got to score off
their starters. They get it to the back of their bullpen.
It's gonna be a problem offensively as far as you know,
(07:05):
pitching wise for the Tigers, I think it's huge. You've
got to handle Obviously, cal Raley can't beat you, and
you know you go into a series, chef, you know this,
and you go into a series, there's several people that
cannot beat you. In last series, it's totally your mirrors,
circle underline, highlight him. It's kyl Raley. So for me,
keeping people off base in front of him and then
(07:25):
making sure you keep him in the ballpark best you can,
which has been a struggle for everybody in the league
this year is job one. Now, this is pitchable to
a certain degree. They still punch a lot. They punch
a lot. And here's another guy too, Randy and Rose Arena.
We know he can carry a team and in short stretches,
So find a way to navigate those two and understand
(07:47):
that there's going to be some swinging miss in that lineup.
And if you can get some swing and miss with
those guys because they like to hit the homers, and
you can keep people off in front of a Rose
Arena and Raleigh, I think the Who's got a good
chance of moving on.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I love your perspective on just baseball in general. I
think the storylines are so much fun. You see a
guy like Cam Shitler throw out to strike out twelve
and eight scoreless for New York last night. You see
Chase de Lawder make his major league debut in center
field when he was a right fielder in the minor
leagues in Game two, Why do we put guardrails on
(08:26):
so many young players when we're seeing it time and
time again, where these guys embrace the moment rather than
run from it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Chef, I think today's baseball, today's kid. I think these
guys are different. They're different. They're allowed to not allowed
to show their moxie and allowed to show their personality earlier,
and I think that's benefiting the game. The biggest thing,
and I said this on there yesterday or few days ago,
when the laughter made his debut. If you're going to
give a guy his debut in a series like this
(08:55):
and that kind of environment, you are rock solid certain
he can handle it. I heard that his makeup is
such that he no matter what happens, he's gonna be
okay out there, And sure enough, he boxes that ball
against the sun and the wind in the first inning.
But he made some good plays. He throws McKinstry out
at third base on an absolute one hot shot that
was accurate. He had good at bats that first night,
(09:17):
he got his first major league base hit yesterday, he
was going to be able to handle that situation. Cam
Schlittler over with the Yankees, same thing, and I got
a little bit more experienced with him because the signing scout,
Matt Hyde, was my teammate at Michigan, and he said,
this guy's makeups off the charts. There's nothing you're going
through out of this that's going to phase him. So
these guys, they have a different These guys coming up
(09:38):
have a different mentality. Now they're scared of nothing. They've
been exposed to a lot more than you or I
coming up in terms of, like, you know, a competition
and in advanced competition. These guys, these guys aren't They're
not scared of it. They're not scared of it. They'll
look the beasts and face and do what they have
to do, good or bad.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, Connlee Early helped felt the same way for Boston. Listen, man,
love you great work, and I mean that really respect it.
You work really hard at your craft. You're really good
at your craft. We're lucky to have you. Thanks for
taking some time, my man. All the best, Have a
great weekend, safe travels to Seattle. All the best to
you and the family. Thanks, buddy, I appreciate appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Name time brought to you by Heineken zero zero. Get
the facts, Be drink aware? Is it drinkaware?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dot e?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He claims he brought the mullet back is short, shorts
are a bit too short, and he's nowhere to be
found when it's his round. Uh, there's one Heineken zero zero.
But he's our best mate. And even though he's always
banging on about dust ninety percent past compleasure, there's no
one we'd rather watch the match to the sports that
(10:40):
bring us together. Heineken zero zero.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There's so much rugby on sports Extra from Sky. They've
asked me to read the whole lout at the same
speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end,
here goes. This season's Sports Extra is jampacked with rugby.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We've got exclusive action from the ARC and every month
from the Champions Cup on Premier Sports and the Cultination
Series on TNT Sports and much more. That's the ARC,
European Rugby and autom Internationals all the same place. Get
more exclusively live tournaments than ever before in Sports Extra
Jampacked with Rugby.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Here there is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra
and Sky or stream it with now search Sports Extra
Brought to you by Heineken zero zero. Get the facts,
be drink aware? Is it drinkaware?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Dot e?
Speaker 1 (00:04):
He claims he brought the mullet back is short, shorts
are a bit too short, and he's nowhere to be
found when it's his round. Uh, there's one Heinegen zero zero.
But he's our best mate, and even though he's always
banging on about dast ninety percent past completion, there's no
one we'd rather watch the match with. To the sports
(00:27):
that bring us together, Heineken zero zero.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's so much rugby on Sports Extra from Sky They've
asked me to read the whole ad at the same
speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end,
here goes this season. Sports Extra is jam packed with rugby.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
We've got exclusive action from the UARC in every match,
from the Champions Cup on Premier Sports and the Cultnation
Series on TNT Sports and much more. That's the UARC,
European Rugby and autom Internationals all the same place. Get
more exclusively live tournaments than ever before in Sports Extra
jam packed with rugby.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Here there is a lot of rugby. Gets Sports Extra
and Sky or stream it with now search Sports.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Extra Bobby's Scales has done a fantastic job, not just
on radio, but making the transition to television as well.
Of course, he looks good, always looks good, so it
makes sense that he does television and he joins us
her on X's and Bros. Bobby's good to talk to you,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How are you, Jeff?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
How you doing? Man? I appreciate that checks in the
mail man.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, you look great. You
always look good, but you even look better on TV.
And I really appreciate and respect the transition because it's
not always easy. What do you think this team proved
to us and itself with a series winning Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I think it's two things. I mean, listen, at the
end of the day, Sheff, you know me well enough
to know that, uh, you know, I'm not really going
to dance around stuff like right the Unfortunately, the collapse
was real. It was real, like they lost the lead
they had. They were a driver's seat. But I think
they proved themselves they had another level of resiliency, and
that's that's going to bear food this year because they're
(01:59):
definitely not done yet. Uh and it's gonna be three
with some of the Peces that are in that old
English d for years to come. And I also think
it's important they won that game, a deciding game in
that building against that team because, as you know, weird
things have happened with that team in that building. Uh.
And it just seems like one of those those benchmarks
(02:20):
sheet You had a tough time getting Plass past Cleveland.
You know, a funny thing's happened with them late all
the time. But they slayed the beast and they're moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You said the collapse was real. That's a that's a
tough thing to fight through. You you've had to do
that as a major League baseball player, yourself, as a scout,
as a coach. What kind of toll does that take
on a player?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Uh, it's it's mentally exhausting because you're doing here's the thing,
and the way Aj handles this team with the level
of consistency he does is absolutely the only way to
do it. I mean, this is what is built on
the marathon. It's built on the a longevity, and you
want to have that. You want to have those routines.
You want to have that, but also too, like when
(03:07):
you're going, when you're in the midst of going through
a stress they went through, it is extremely difficult to
continue to maintain that. Hey, listen, we just got to
keep doing what they're doing, keep doing what we're doing,
keep go, stay with our routings, stay with our preparations,
stay with this, stay with that. This is not a
football season, either college or pro, where it's a it's
a really short sprint. You've got you have to make.
You have to have the urgency of changings. Now you
have to resist that urge. So it's hard. It's hard
(03:29):
when you're doing everything you're going, you're giving max effort,
you're giving max preparation, and it just seems like every
night you're figuring out a way not to win the
baseball game. And so I think I think it's hard
for those guys to fight through it. But I think again,
winning this series watches a lot of that away.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Bobby Scale's the outstanding analysts on radio and television for
the Tigers, joining us on the Lindsay Hunter Foundation guest
line on this Friday morning, is the Tigers look forward
to Seattle. At what point do you think Tigers fans
will forget the fact that this team did not win
the Division failed to close it out even though they
led by fourteen on July eighth. Is it now that
(04:07):
they're in the Alds, do you think they have to
take another step or do you think they need to
get to the World Series to do that?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, don't think. I think you stop worried about it now,
because at the end of the day, as a matter
of fact, I'll be honest with you, I think you
got to stop worried about it when you make the playoffs.
And here's why twelve teams in baseball make the playoffs eighteen, don't.
You're in the dance, right, and when you're in the dance,
you have a chance, right. And so not only do
you have a chance, you beat You want a series
(04:35):
against a good Cleveland baseball team, and you're going on
and you've got to face a good scale Marits team
with tons of pitching, so it's going to be another challenge.
But yeah, listen, you're in it. You're still in it.
And there's teams that went home, and now you know
that that twelve is down to six and you don't
one to six, So don't worry about everybody else. Worry
about your squad.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You've had to live through this plenty because in baseball,
and you and I have talked about this one sixty
two people's second guest constantly. It's it's nauseating, quite honestly.
But the pitching for Detroit outside of Terrek Schoubl, the
short leash with Mice, the short lease with Flaerty as well,
was to me just a little surprising considering how well
(05:14):
they were pitching. Do you think aj Hinch will go
into the Seattle series? Scooble gives me an extended game.
Everybody else, I'm going to mix and match the best
I possibly can and not worry about how long my
selective starter goes.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's it. I don't think there's I think you're seeing,
you know the one Aja always says, you'll see you know,
you see what I'm thinking about what I'm doing. And
he doesn't play around, especially in his environment and these
because no, you know, you sit around the media scrum
and you know, people ask him, hey, what do you
think about this? And you want to think about that,
so you'll see, You'll see what I'm thinking about what
I'm doing. And he went and got ac early the
(05:49):
other day. Uh And was it four and two thirds
for flarity yesterday, if a third something like that. So yeah,
I mean he gets a match up he wants, or
he targets the match up he wants. He's going to
get that bulk and ut gets to it, he's gonna
go ahead and make the move. And that's what he
believes in. That's how he images and and and you know,
it's it's there's, it's it's born some fruit.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Lately, I've told anybody who will listen, it's great to
get by Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Because I love Jose Ramirez. I respect the hell out
of Stephen Kuwan and Stephen Vote did a really good
job with this team. But Seattle is a different animal
because their lineup is long, and their lineup has power,
and their lineup scores runs man, And like you said,
the pitching. I don't know if Brian wu is going
to be available, but they've got some guys, They've got
(06:35):
some dudes, and Muno's at the back end. What will
be the biggest challenge playing against Seattle? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think it's it's it's it's handling that pitching, because
like you said, if the game gets to Munios, it's
like the game getting the Class A. More often than not,
it's it's gonna be a tough go for whoever is
in front of them, and in this case obviously is Tigers.
But I think you got it the same thing I
said again the Cleveland series. You've got to score off
their starters. They get it to the back of their bullpen.
It's gonna be a problem offensively as far as you know,
(07:05):
pitching wise for the Tigers, I think it's huge. You've
got to handle Obviously, cal Raley can't beat you, and
you know you go into a series, chef, you know this,
and you go into a series, there's several people that
cannot beat you. In last series, it's totally your mirrors,
circle underline, highlight him. It's kyl Raley. So for me,
keeping people off base in front of him and then
(07:25):
making sure you keep him in the ballpark best you can,
which has been a struggle for everybody in the league
this year is job one. Now, this is pitchable to
a certain degree. They still punch a lot. They punch
a lot. And here's another guy too, Randy and Rose Arena.
We know he can carry a team and in short stretches,
So find a way to navigate those two and understand
(07:47):
that there's going to be some swinging miss in that lineup.
And if you can get some swing and miss with
those guys because they like to hit the homers, and
you can keep people off in front of a Rose
Arena and Raleigh, I think the Who's got a good
chance of moving on.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
I love your perspective on just baseball in general. I
think the storylines are so much fun. You see a
guy like Cam Shitler throw out to strike out twelve
and eight scoreless for New York last night. You see
Chase de Lawder make his major league debut in center
field when he was a right fielder in the minor
leagues in Game two, Why do we put guardrails on
(08:26):
so many young players when we're seeing it time and
time again, where these guys embrace the moment rather than
run from it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Chef, I think today's baseball, today's kid. I think these
guys are different. They're different. They're allowed to not allowed
to show their moxie and allowed to show their personality earlier,
and I think that's benefiting the game. The biggest thing,
and I said this on there yesterday or few days ago,
when the laughter made his debut. If you're going to
give a guy his debut in a series like this
(08:55):
and that kind of environment, you are rock solid certain
he can handle it. I heard that his makeup is
such that he no matter what happens, he's gonna be
okay out there, And sure enough, he boxes that ball
against the sun and the wind in the first inning.
But he made some good plays. He throws McKinstry out
at third base on an absolute one hot shot that
was accurate. He had good at bats that first night,
(09:17):
he got his first major league base hit yesterday, he
was going to be able to handle that situation. Cam
Schlittler over with the Yankees, same thing, and I got
a little bit more experienced with him because the signing scout,
Matt Hyde, was my teammate at Michigan, and he said,
this guy's makeups off the charts. There's nothing you're going
through out of this that's going to phase him. So
these guys, they have a different These guys coming up
(09:38):
have a different mentality. Now they're scared of nothing. They've
been exposed to a lot more than you or I
coming up in terms of, like, you know, a competition
and in advanced competition. These guys, these guys aren't They're
not scared of it. They're not scared of it. They'll
look the beasts and face and do what they have
to do, good or bad.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, Connlee Early helped felt the same way for Boston. Listen, man,
love you great work, and I mean that really respect it.
You work really hard at your craft. You're really good
at your craft. We're lucky to have you. Thanks for
taking some time, my man. All the best, Have a
great weekend, safe travels to Seattle. All the best to
you and the family. Thanks, buddy, I appreciate appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Name time brought to you by Heineken zero zero. Get
the facts, Be drink aware? Is it drinkaware?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dot e?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He claims he brought the mullet back is short, shorts
are a bit too short, and he's nowhere to be
found when it's his round. Uh, there's one Heineken zero zero.
But he's our best mate. And even though he's always
banging on about dust ninety percent past compleasure, there's no
one we'd rather watch the match to the sports that
(10:40):
bring us together. Heineken zero zero.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There's so much rugby on sports Extra from Sky. They've
asked me to read the whole lout at the same
speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end,
here goes. This season's Sports Extra is jampacked with rugby.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
We've got exclusive action from the ARC and every month
from the Champions Cup on Premier Sports and the Cultination
Series on TNT Sports and much more. That's the ARC,
European Rugby and autom Internationals all the same place. Get
more exclusively live tournaments than ever before in Sports Extra
Jampacked with Rugby.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Here there is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra
and Sky or stream it with now search Sports Extra
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