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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
I'm Kyle Millan, editor of the Murrs newsletter, filling in
for Michael Patrick, with Tony Cuthbert on the.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Other side of the glass.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I did stay up last night to watch the end
of that Seattle Mariners Detroit Tigers game. Seattle won three
to two in the eighth inning with a with back
to back doubles off Kyle Finnegan, whose name I'm a
big fan of since I'm a Kyle two and my
son's name is Finnegan. But finagain is not joining us
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this morning. Instead, we're gonna have Larry Sorenson, a friend
of the show, join us to kind of break down
where the Tigers are right now.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Good morning, How are you doing, Larry.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Nice to be with you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, he is with www Dot pitch Logic, and I
know he's talked about that service on this show before.
But let's talk a little bit about that game last night.
Did you stay up and watch the end of that thing?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I got through to Charkilsen's double to tie it up,
and I had been in North Carolina. I did the
North Caro the Wake Forest University and Virginia Tech football
game on Saturday. So at a six am flight on Sunday,
and I ran out of gas on my seventieth birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh my goodness, I got a little bit, just.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Got a little bit late.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But it was a great game, and Tiger's bullpen just
couldn't quite get the job done for an inning or
two to give the offense a chance.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Boy, those have been some really compelling games though, the
Saturday night game and the Sunday night game.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Well, even all the way down the stretch, the Tigers
played in a lot of very very close games, and
it was games that during their bad stretch leading up
to they had a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Of them and they managed to win them. They just
came up a little short last night.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
But you know, it's an interesting situation with their bullpen
pitching by chaos, and everybody has to be ready because
you never know when you're going to be used. And
unfortunately for Finnegan, and that's a great story about your
son's name, unfortunately for Finigan, he came up a little
bit short.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
He struggled some down.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
The stretch with an injury, and he just couldn't get
it done last night.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Well, you know, Seattle's best hitters came up and got
to him. I mean when you got Cal Rowley and
then Julio Rodriguez back to back. Those guys been fantastic
all year. I mean, cal Raley's had just an amazing
season and he has not stopped hitting in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
No. And really, that's one of the things that I
love about baseball is you get the stories like that
with the guy that absolutely comes out of nowhere to
put up.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
A season like that, and will he sustain it? Who knows?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You know that'll be that'll be a story to follow.
But you look at him, or you look at a
guy like treyy Sevage with Toronto who comes out of
nowhere at twenty two years old and strikes out eleven
in a playoff game, and those are the great stories
that baseball produces. And we always say that your stars
have to be stars under the bright lights, and yet
we see guys that come out of nowhere that take
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over a series and become the one name that everybody's
talking about on Mondays.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, did you watch any of that Blue Jays New
York Yankees series?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I saw some of it. I saw a little bit
of it. It's been a weekend on the road.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But it's a great.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Series between two teams and really different cities. You know,
different takes on baseball in those two different in those
two cities, which is interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, talk about that because in New York it is
I mean, the Yankees are like a very dominant, in
your face kind of franchise where everybody's talking about it,
everyone's got an opinion on it. And then you go
to Toronto and it's just a way more laid back atmosphere
because hockey's the big sport up there.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
They're very polite in Toronto, but you know, they love
their base fun.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They make a lot of noise.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
They know how to make noise because hockey fans.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Know how to make noise. For sure.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
New York gets a religion and they treat it as
such and are avid.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And there's no margin for error in Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Anytime that you go there with and play for the Yankees,
there is zero margin for error and you're always under
the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So a difference in attitude. You just expected to.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Perform at a very high level all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
In New York Toronto.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Kyle they just are bringing out the bats. Thirteen to
seven yesterday they beat the New York Yankees, and then
Saturday was a big game too, ten to one, a
double digit run scores back to back in the playoffs.
I don't know if that's just because they're playing in
Toronto or what, but they they're crushing it right now.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I'm going to reach out to Bus Martinez, their broadcaster,
who is my catcher when.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I was with the Brewers, best catcher I ever threw to.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And he's their broadcaster and spend their manager in a long.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Time, and he gives the re inside scoop.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I folks, want to learn some baseball while you're watching
the game, which is what I always try to do
when I'm watching the game on TV or listening on radio.
Buck Martinez is a guy to check out because he
does a great job. And they really did break out
the bats.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
That place can get raucous.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That can really get rolling in there when they get
on a good hot streak, and so I'm sure that
it was crazy up there as runs.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Were rounding the bases.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
We have the Brewers and the Cubs playing this afternoon,
and then the Dodgers and the Phillies also today.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Any thoughts on either of those games.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Brewers Tubs, you got two of my old teams. Somebody
said you must be cheering for the Brewers.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I said, well, I played for the cub too, so
I really can't go wrong in that one.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know, that's been a big rivalry for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So close to each other that fans can commute.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
It's a great place. Either spot is a great place
to watch the game. Being in Milwaukee, you got to
give the slight edge to them to try to pick
off win number two because that ballpark can get going
in the fans.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Will be ready for that one as well.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
So I'm going to go with the brew crew in
that one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Larry Sorenson's our guest.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He's with pitch logic dot com and he also does
some broadcasting for college football.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Tell us about the game that you did this weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Actually it was up in up at Virginia Tech. And
that you know, they play Sandman when the team comes
running out. It's one of the great, great, and maybe
not as well known venues to watch a game as
you'll find, because the crowd is leaning and tilting and jumping,
and they've got a lot of traditions. The team is
down a little bit, but they have a new head coach.
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Their head coach got fired three games in, so they
were eight and a half point favorites.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Way Forest upset them. I've been doing way Fourth for nine.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Years now in football, and also has a new coach,
Jake Dickarck, came over from Washington State, so they're kind
of finding their way through.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But college football is a black I did the sidelines
for Michigan with Frank.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Beckman for a number of years up in Ann Arbor,
where I went to school, So college football gets in
your blood just like baseball does. And it's a great
time of year when you've got college football and baseball
playoffs going on at the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Bill Belichick is new to the scene, though, but he's
not having as good of a time I think as
probably they're having in wake Forest right now.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
And I haven't heard a lot of sympathy for him,
either as you talk to people around conference or that
you talk to people across the country and going to
play different teams.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
It's an odd situation. I think it's a short term situation.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I don't think it was a good fix, and I
think it's going to end very badly.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, it certainly doesn't look very good for the Tar
Heels over there in North Carolina. But congratulations to your
Wake Forest demon Deakins for pulling out a victory over
there against Virginia Tech. I've never been to Virginia Tech.
I've been to Wake Forest before, but not for a
football game. I went there for a basketball game many
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years ago. Very very interesting story on that one. We
were down twenty points in the second half and folks
were starting to leave, and then somehow I came back
and won the game. That's the only thing I remember
about Wake for well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I've had They've had some They've had some great teams
through the year with Duncan, Tim Duncan and with Chris
Paul and some other guys through the years. Football has
been It's been a basketball school traditionally, and Dave Clawson
came in went to seven straight Bowl games right when
I started my broadcasting, my football broadcasting, So that was
a lot of fun to go to seven bowl games.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
In a row.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
But it's a great academic school. Small it's the smallest
school of the Power sixty four, only about five twenty
four students. So it's a tough place academically, and the
and the student athletes truly our student athletes they go
to class I can verify that. So it has been
a very interesting ride down there and a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well thanks for sharing all that info with us. Larry
Sorensen with pitch Logic dot com. You're listening to Michigan's
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