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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lancing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
You like to go from one base to another without
even taking a spike stock All right, here's what we
got you lock you right there on the first.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Out of the dugaut I do.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Know what that makes you. Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
Is on the air.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Good morning World Baseball as and Betty, Betty, good to me?
And was it good to Mike Nichols yesterday? Was it
good to Michigan? Was it good to the Tigers? The
attorney at the firm and East Lansing with his wife Wendy.
Mike Nichols loves the lions, and I just say that
because it's nice alliteration, but he also loves the Tigers,

(01:19):
and he went to the game yesterday, and he's on
the other end of our at and t len our
radio stage right now to tell us the tale. You
had to really love baseball to sit through that one yesterday.
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I cheer up for the Tigers, and I'm ready to
tell the tale of the Tigers last night.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
You had a tiger by the tail if you went
to that game. First of all, who did you go with?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I took my son, Christian, who's about to start his
second year of law school at Cooley Law School, and
I flew flew out of a consultation at five o'clock
to try to get through the construction to get there
for a six forty pitch, which was pushed back, thankfully
because of some rain, so it didn't start till seven

(02:06):
point fifteen. Oh man, it was. It was worth all
of it.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
So you took your son, so you weren't worried about
the kiss came or anything like that. You take that
off the plate. That's perfectly fine, no problem there, not
that there would be. But you're like me. You like
to be there for the ceremonial first pitch and then
national anthem and all that stuff, right, I like to
be there when.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
The starting pitcher comes out of the bullpen because the
whole staff this year has come out with him and
they just make it like a pretty cool entrance. And
I missed that, but that's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
What did you do during the rain delay?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
We were in the Tiger Dine, so completely protected, no
no issues.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, yeah, very cozy.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I went and got street tacos. That's what I did.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Any any hot dogs at the game.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Nope, just the street tacos, which might have been a
mistake because my stomach was bugging me all nine, but
it was. I mean they're they're delicious, but right, I mean,
I've got that Anglo gastro in testeral to some that
is not conducive to that sort of digestion. But Scooby

(03:20):
made up for it. Man. That guy like seventy one
percent first pitch strikes and then the bullpen will vest
eighty percent first pitch strikes. Just locked down the Astros.
It was really just an amazing game.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
How many RBIs did you see?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Just one? Right? Labor Torres got his five hundredth TRBI
with a walk off walk Their reliever just he's tightened
up like you wouldn't believe.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
The weirdest thing. It was like a soccer game. You
saw no scoring until the bases were loaded at the
very end of the game. And this is what it
sounded like. Three to two.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Pitch wo Hey walked in, Tigers whom man bases loaded,
walk to Glaber Torres, Tigers pour out of the dugout
to mob him at first base. How bout it?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Now? That is a wild reaction from a crowd for
an at bat that basically doesn't even count.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well it does. You have to look in the scoring rule.
It does count as an RBI for Glabor, so he
does number five hundred for him? It does, yep, it
does it. You know, the scoring rules are kind of
you know, subjective, a little bit kind of like scoring
standardized shield sobriety tests. But it's it's a walk off.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Huh. All right, So in that situation, because a run
comes in, it counts as a run batted in even
though nothing was actually bad it. But in terms of
a of a accounted a bat, let's say, yeah, it's
not right, or I guess it is. Well, if a
guy go ahead, that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's exactly why. Just like standardized field to write testing
sometimes baseball scoring makes zero sense because I don't think
it does count as an as bad. It does count
as an RBI.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Okay, seems a little contradictory, and only your son at
Cooley Law School could probably figure out the details.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Oh, you argue that he argued with me about it,
and I said, nope, look it up. Look it up,
young man. You know the only failed old Michael Patrick
was the Camerica Park crew did not bring in bring
up the house mic for Glabor's postgame interview with what's
her name and Danellen Danella. So as you're walking out,

(05:54):
you're hearing music and you're watching him. I mean we were,
you know, a quarter of a mile away if that,
you know, talk talking about that ad bad and you
couldn't hear it because they were playing, you know whatever,
drive home safety of music they were playing.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
When a father who's an attorney and a son who's
studying to be an attorney get in the car after
a game like that and they start arguing a point
like that, how long in the drive does it take
until you either declare it a tie or somebody wins
the argument? Did you make it all the way to Brighton?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh no, no, no, no, it was. It was a
very short discussion. He acquiesced my baseball large so that
vault of wisdom he knew.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Did most people stay till the end? It sounded like
a robust crowd.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
It seemed like it. Yeah, I mean a lot of
people were down there. It seemed like people kind of
got crowded around the home plate seats in the lower
bowl that are kind of controversial for the way they
reconfigured them. But I couldn't I didn't hear the crowd count,
but it looked like it was pretty pretty full all
around the stadium.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Great to hear. They made it through a rain delay.
They sat through a game with no no runs, and
they saw that drama at the end just very quickly.
There are two.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
It was a great defense. It was great defense too.
Don't don't forget that.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
You gotta love roll.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
That play at the plate was, I mean, just classic
fundamental baseball. Carried berries, the balls unburied by Carrie. He
throws it to the cutoff man bullet on a one
hop to Dingler who made the tag, and that was
just sweet.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Well, imagine if you went to a Lions game and
it ended up being two to nothing. A safety was scored,
and that's what it's like.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Great, it's a win.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Speaking of wins and losses, just very quickly, one of
two University of Michigan scholars from China accused of smuggling
biological materials into the United States pleaded no contest. What
does a no contest plea mean?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
It means I don't contest the charges against me. The
judge has to look at some other source, like a
police report or maybe a transcript from a lower court
proceeding to determine that the person is actually guilty of
the offense charged. So it's treated as a guilty plea
for like sentencing the person and the person's criminal record.

(08:23):
But the person doesn't have to say here's what I
did that makes me guilty, which is what you typically
do in a criminal case.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Interesting. Benton Martin, the attorney for this person, said that
she's maintaining her innocence desplite entering the no contest plea.
The Nichols Law Firm is where you can find Mike
and Thendy Wendy Nichols and soon their son. I imagine
he's clerking there too, or go to a tiger game
or a Lions game too, or a golf course near you.

(08:54):
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