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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome back. It is a drive with Jack Spotlight a
radio network. Jack Emblin here with my producer, Boston Rob.
Very happy to have Rich Kincaid with us. He has
some great stuff on the Lions, and we'll get to
that in just a couple of minutes. But Rich, what
are you of the Detroit Tigers today? Down three nothing
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on the verge of a lot of tea times, and
here they are scoring seven runs.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Riley g.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Eight eight eight labor tauruses went yard.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Oh my goodness, so they'd hit one home run in
the previous three games, and here they go, and then
they're hitting them all over the place today. Riley Green
four hundred and fifty four foot shot. We see Hobby By,
Yeah he just see.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Yeah, he had a two run shot.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And it's it's all.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
The first four innings of this thing was looking like
the same old, same old, yeah, and it was. It
was frustrating me because the place is absolutely dead. And
when you think about it, the Tigers, they're not in
the postseason every season, right, and here everybody is giving
up on them. One in NY League game. I don't
care who it is. You got two relatively evenly matched teams.
(02:04):
You're odds of winning were about fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Get's always a coin to us. We'll get out there
and cheer.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
The first four innings Tigers rally consisted of turkles and
really catching one and driving it almost to the morning
track and ride. And then on the fourth, the top
of the fourth inning, I believe they had the leadoff
man on and somebody managed to hit into an unassisted
double play, three unassisted and you think that this is
just it was awful, And then all of a sudden,
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the fifth inning, single single field of choice double scores,
miss Kensy McKinstry from first base on, you know, really
got the we made it three to one, really got
the crowd going. A couple board doubles, won them by bias,
ties the game. And then they hit the home runs
came in the bottom of the sixth inning, they hit
two of them. They left the field of leaving leading
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seven to three. At at that point, it's eight to
three now and it's a it's a whole new deal, ain't.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It it is?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And the idea of going back to Seattle. It's funny
how fast this changes. Rich As you were saying, yeah,
you know, when when the Tigers got that win in
Game one with scooball on the mound, a lot of
people thought, well, that'll be two zip. They'll come back,
they'll they'll split at least if they don't sweep them,
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they won't get back to Seattle. Tigers fans didn't want
to get back to Seattle. And then after the Mariners
win the next two games, they would have given anything
just to get back to Seattle. And now it looks
like that's exactly what's going to happen, and we're going
to get Scooball and Kirby again.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, the reabob.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I harken back to my first year covered Major League
Baseball deck and if you get tired of me telling
the story, you let me know. But the Tigers are
mired in a terrible hitting slump. They'd lost seven eight
games in row, couldn't get any We all know what
hitting slump is, which is what the time have been
in too much of the time since mid July and
especially here in the postseason up until this very day.
(04:08):
I asked the veteran, the late great Rusty Star about
the slump, and he said he said he was gonna swear,
but I was just a kid at the time. He said, Hey,
we're going to bust out of this thing and somebody's
gonna pay. Well, that doesn't necessarily happen, you know, just
because the new game started. Sometimes it happens in the
middle of the game. That's what's happened to the Tigers today.
They busted out and somebody's paying, and that's somebody's seattle.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Absolutely, So what do you think happens? Terrek?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
School ball has had really tough luck against the Mariners
this year. It's been the team that has kind of
had his number. Although he hasn't pitched terribly, He's pitched
pretty well actually.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Just hasn't gotten the decision. What do you think we're
going to see?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I think you're gonna see Terrek shove the ball right
up there. Collectives, you know, is what I think we're
going to see.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I give them the Sawing Award winner.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
This is the one man in baseball you want to
half pitched a must win game.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm a fork. I want to see it. I think
that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, how about that proclamations quite like that one. We
get a lot of fence sitting and well, you know
this could happen. But if this happens, not from rich Kasten, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
This bulk club, this bulk club.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Jack has in so many regards, giving us so many
great stories this year, some of them heroic and some
of them tragic. All right, when was the last time
we had a summer with our baseball team? Was fifteen
games in first place?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, ages, You.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Got to go back to sixty eight for that kind
of nonsense. And then the collapse, which was operatic in nature.
You know, Shakespeare couldn't write this tragedy. They almost missed
the playoffs, and now for them to hang in there,
and I'm you know what, I'm I know this game
ain't over. I know it's eighty three, but it ain't over.
And that's kind of the way I think.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you have a chance to go to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I won't have a chance to advance to the America
League Championships. Amazing in amazing summer, And no matter what happens,
it's just been well, you don't want to see. It's
been a lot of fun covering to Syne. We've been
a lot of fun being a fan of this team.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I mean a lot of things can happen. This
season can be two days longer, and that would be
it or or cour this incredible story could continue and
the Tigers right now rich assuming that we don't get
the unfathomable here in the last couple of innings exactly,
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the Tigers would be nine wins away from one of
the greatest stories in baseball history.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Absolutely right. Yeah, I started wondering for the Rubbings of
the playoffs. I'm doing the pregame show and it started
off the playoffs by saying the Rubbers are sixteen wins
away from Stanley Cup, you know, and then on Night
twos the Rubbings are still sixteen wins away from Stanley Cup, right.
I never got anywhere near the sixteen, So that's when
I stopped doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It's yeah, the it's much I think it's much.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Better at this time of the year. It's so much
more fun.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Actually, just said that tires are one winner or one
day away from having their season be over. You know
what really strikes me, it's how the athletes and the
coaches handled Game seven pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I've had a chance. I was covering the.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Red Wings in Toronto. It's a number of years ago,
but they were in a Game seven on the road
against the may Ple Leafs, and I just remember the
pregame meal early in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There was Brian Murray.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
The way of the world should have been crashing down
on their shoulders. But to each and every one of them,
it just struck me, this is just another game day,
you know, And maybe when you were when you reach
that level as a professional, that is how it is
to you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
But it was just it's from everybody.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Talks about nerves and YadA yadi but I've yet to
see an athlete, you know, like his knees knocking as
he's going through the buffetlan on a game day.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But you know, they just they take it in stride.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
One One comedian, apparently Toronto Mapleic's to coach has has
called on his team to play every game like at
the game seven, prompting a Canadian.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Comedian to say, well, the least are going to go
oh in eighty two.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Because they can't win a game seven.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Guys, I get a ton of texts during this show,
and some of them are informative, some of them are humorous,
some of them are derogatory. But I just had one
of the most interesting ones. This is from the same
guy who texted me and said it's over. I'm done
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with this bowl right And now he texted me back
and he said, greatest day of twenty twenty five. Would
you rather play the Yankees or the Blue Jays?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh? Man, I'd rather play the Mariners on Friday night. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, let's let's enjoy that. You know, I came into
this probably.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Caring less about the Tiger's faith than you do, Rich,
but I have a soft spot for Seattle. The only
team in Major League Baseball that's never been to a
World Series. They've won one hundred and sixteen games in
the season, and they've had some of the greatest players,
but they have never been to a World Series. And
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talking to some of their fans yesterday at co America,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I feel bad for them. If the Tigers win, great.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
If the Tigers don't win this series, I hope the
Mariners go on and you know, go a long way.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
But you know, Jack, how in this series they've been saying, well,
this is the Mariners first playoff win since twenty oh one.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It means that for twenty five years they've been crummy. Okay,
so I'm not ready to but still a crown upon
them until they actually earned one.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It's been a while, it is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It has been a while.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
And this is my you know, this is my second
This is my second favorite team from Seattle. The Seattle
Pilots are my all time favorite.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh there, I saw a lot of Seattle Pilots uniforms yesterday.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, those were bad. But I like the Teal Mariners.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And I'm not a I'm not a giant Teal guy,
I didn't think the Pistons belonged in Teal.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But with the Mariners, you know, maybe it's the c thing.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't know, but you know.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
You're just good enough, Jack, You're just a namor to
this team.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm really I'm start worry about I'm sure worried.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I'm sure worried about what's gonna happen Friday if the
Tigers pulled this thing out.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
No, I'm I'm I'm I'm all about the Tigers winning.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Uh, it's time of the show. It's good for absolutely.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
You know, I did go out.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
On a limb here rich as you'll remember, at the
trade deadline, and I've been saying that Mariners are the
best team in the American League.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Doesn't mean they're going.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
To win the series, you know, going up against Trek
school Boy in Game five, they're going to be an
underdog at home. But nonetheless, I still think they're the
best team in the American League, even if they if
they lose this game by eight runs, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, look you go up and down there.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
They start with Raina Rosa, whose name I apparently can't pronounce.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Now that I need to.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Rosa Arena.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, thank you, Randy. Randy one of the best. But
he's one of the best lead up guys in the game. Yeah,
you know, I think, and then then they just pound
you two through five? Yeah and five.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Is that Naylor a guy right who's just kills the Tigers?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Maybe there may be more than one Naylor. I'm starting
to learn more about this. There may be more than
one of them there are, But just like they're everywhere
and they killed the tech, I would rather I'd rather
face Nelson Cruise for Crown aloud, and he absolutely I believe.
I think I've seen Nelson cruise in person a fifty
home runs against the.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
T in my lifetime. I mean, I'd still rather face.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Him than one of these one of these Mailer brothers.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'll say, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All right, let's talk for a minute about Yeah, the
Detroit Lions.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, you go ahead, you have some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Courtesy once again, the Lions outstanding public relations department. The Lions,
they're doing things that have not happened in my lifetime.
They did a lot of those things last year. But
it makes me feel See, I'm not young I'm a
I'm an official old person now, okay, but things that
have not happened in my lifetime. For example, the Lions
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has scored now thirty points in their four in four
straight games, which ties to the second longest streaking franchise history.
Franchise history takes us back to the nineteen thirties. Franchise
records in points one hundred and seventy four and touchdowns
score twenty two through the first five games of any
season on pressent, never happened before. Let's get to some
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of the some of the individual notes, Alex, and help
me out with the linebackers, al thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Not with struggle with names like this.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's good, No, it's gently generally not.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
But nevertheless, it's the twenty eight pass defense as a
line that's the second most by a Lions linebacker since
nineteen ninety four. We mentioned that because now you're going
back over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
For Jack Fox, the punter, gets in the notes this week.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
He had four punts inside the ten yard line last week,
tied for the most in a single game in franchise history.
Right right, amazing, Jared Jared Goff, Let's get to him.
He tied an NFL record by producing his sixth straight
world game with a complete percentage of at least seventy percent,
tied an NFL record. He joins Peyton Manning Peyton Manning
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as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to accumulate at
least twelve touchdown passes, you know, in the in the
stretch times that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So as we go through these notes, you see Aiden Hutchinson,
he is a Tider record.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
He's the only NFL player to produce more such He
had a sack attack for loss at a fourth fumble, all right.
The only other player to produce more.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Such games as TJ. Watt. So my point is when
we when we're.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Looking at these guys, they're being compared to Peyton Manning
at TJ. Watt, and they're setting franchise records. And I
just think it's remarkable and fun.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That I'm worried about Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, what about all these injuries in the secondary and
what they're lable to run into at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, see, you got Ken Siddy losing a heartbreaker last
night on the road, playing a short week. But they're
two and three now, and it's the cornered animal that
fights the heartest.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's the thing that worries me the most.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Okay, injuries in the secondary sounds like the same record.
We began playing it about this time last year for
the Detroit Lions, and they were able to cope all
the way into the.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Playoffs when they were not able to.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
So it's yeah, injuries, that's just a greater known and
apparently the number one factory in handicapping any football game
is knowing who's hurt. And I don't know who's hurt
this week, so it's difficult. It's difficult to handicap. I
just think it's a It's a great opportunity for the
Lives to go out there and duplicate what they did
in twenty twenty three, go to Airhead and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Win, and it should be a heck of respective.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
It's really a good time to kick Kansas City when
they're down too.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Right, right, Yeah, there was a point where nobody won
in Kansas City. And now you wonder what happened to
that Lion's team we saw in Green Bay.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Where did they go?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Remember the.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Mark Antonio got really mad at me after the Spartans
opened against Notre Dame at home one year, fifteen years ago, whatever,
and they got beat twenty one to nothing. And I
asked him if he thought this were an aberration? Okay,
and he got really mad at me.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
What do you mean an aberration?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean, well, I didn't want to define.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
The word, but you know, they went into that game
rank I guess Notre Dame. They came out getting clobbered
by Notre Dame. And I wonder if, wonder if that's
not what has happened, what happened in game one?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
In Game one, it was just an aberration.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that. It doesn't look like
these teams now are the same. Certainly Green Bay played
this way and Lions haven't played anything like this. So
is there a better team in the National Football League
right now than the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Oh geez, I forgot to look at my power rankings.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'd play anybody this week if I were Detroit.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I think I'd answered the question that way.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah. Yeah, Would you like the Lions chances on a
neutral field against the Philadelphia Eagles or the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
We saw Buffalo beat the Lions last year at Ford Field.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Exactly that this was one of those forty year that
was last year. It was one of those forty one
thirty eight games that you know, dependent on who had
the ball last, kind of kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think I'd take Buffalo. They do.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
They do match up well well against them, So yeah,
I would I'd take Buffalo that scenario.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, you would have loved.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You would have loved seeing what happened last Friday night
rich at President Center. First of all, it was the
izone camp out, so they had tents as far as
the eye could see, and they were bodysurfing players all
over the place. They had a drone show, which I've
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never seen anything like that.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They had a seven foot one and a.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Half center in there who was directing the crowd recruit.
They had Dan Campbell introducing tom Izzo. They had Iszo
hopping out of a bass drum that had been pounded on.
They had Hooper from the Pistons, Rory from the Lions,
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Pause from the Tigers, along with Sparty and then Izo.
We said that they had three masks. It's a Hooper
and a Yoper posing for pictures and it was the
greatest white out I have ever seen. It in Michigan State.
The place was jammed. It was It was a night
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that I didn't know that they could create.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And these are the same students that sometimes annoyed by
leaving football games early and leaving the stadium not looking
as full as.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It might as well might otherwise be.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
But I'll tell you what you You can't match the
kind of spirit that you described and what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Last Friday night.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I remember being at Michigan State back in the nineteen
seventies and they had this thing, but it wasn't exactly
as big a deal as it is now.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, it's maybe.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Maybe it's maybe you stagger over from the library if
you're you know, bleary eyed, you know from your from
your studies, you know, and hear commotion near Jennison and
go check it out. A boy there, they're camped out
two three nights in the grants, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No, they let them camp out.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But they when they start putting these tents out, I mean,
they don't start a week. It's not like Skrzyzewskyville. But
it was very impressive. I'll just say that. And more
people on monthfield Friday night and Saturday morning than there
will ever be for a football tailgate.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So, by the way, am I going to see you
Saturday at Smart for the UCLA game?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Now, how can safe at eight and a half point
favorite after UCLA does knock out Penn State?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Explain that to me?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Okay, because some people actually saw UCLA get eviscerated by
New Mexico and loss, lose badly to UNLV and lose
to Northwestern. So the question is what was that last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Exactly? That's exactly what was that?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, that's the thing, that's just yeah, no, go ahead,
I said.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
The other thing that's really interesting about this rich You
remember when Michigan State played USC, the crosstown rival of
the Bruins, and this was in the coliseum an eleven
PM start yester time, so that everyone was pitching about
body clocks. Well, this is a noon start here, which
means the Bruins are playing.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
At nine am. Yes, I think that matters.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
So you know it, man, and we never think about it.
You only think about the effects of traveling out west
of starting games as you know, in the middle of
the night. As you describe it, Yeah, that was you
know what, just talking to your guests Listening to your
guests earlier in the show talking about college football, the
matchups are just unbelievable. I mean you can say we
want about the Big Ten, will be in the Big
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twenty three or how many schools run the conference, but
you get to see you get to see Michigan USC.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, you know, you.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Get a match up like Minnesota and Oregon State, you know,
and for that matter, u c l A against Penn State.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, you know, my.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Big question for years.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
And ogze the game of the week, that's game day
and everything else is going to be there for.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That and how and and and I know it's it's
been a year's long process, but how exactly does Indiana
get seventh in the nation good at football? I think
that's a terrific story, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, And I have no answer to that because I
watched so many coaches crash and burned there and some
came in with the test of intentions. Oh sure, and
good records resumes, but yeah, I wouldn't get it done there.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Well, you talking about buying, that's what's going on down
there as near as I can tell.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, speaking a buy in or Baiaz if we're talking
about amazing stories or one day, you know, go figures.
What do you make of Hobby bay As the last couple.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Of weeks after as bad as a batter could look,
swinging at pitches in the other batter's box, right, and
today big hits again.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, he looks like a major league hitter again.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Yeah, I don't exactly know, because he had he had
the peak there at the All Star Game, you know,
comeback player of the Year, everything else going on, and
then he came back and again he started biting on
at curveball that would force him to swing, and pitches
compel him to swing, and pitches that were in the
left hander's batter's box, and it's it's a bad look.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Maybe pictures one thing. I have notices, and this is
a Gavas thing. They're not throwing pictures to the left
handed batter's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Box anymore from around the sky. I don't even know why. Yeah,
well they seem to be.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
They seem to want to challenge him, and I'm like why,
But I think that's what's going on. Of course, he
says he's up right now, by the way, and he
does have that. I'm not I'm not sure how much
about the game I'm allowed to divulge in real time
for fear of, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Biologing the Commission's rules. I mean, we brought.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If he's listening, we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That sounds good, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Now the Tigers have runners on first and third, one
out in the bottom of the eighth and uh, probably
their last at bat and might be their last at
bat ever at Comerica Park, Rich.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well this year, Yeah, it might be. It's nine the
free Now, by the way, what do you.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Mean you have a bias for some of these guys.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
No, I'm talking about not just the individuals. But isn't
Comerica Park going by the wayside? Is that going to
be fifth Third Park?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh I did not hear that.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Oh yeah, that's how much that's that's how much attention
I paid a corporate sports.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
This contract is up, and my understanding yesterday talking to
some people, you know that that's basically a done deal
that they are going to you know, I guess the
the mud Hens also played at fifth Third Park right
in Toledo.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, So I'm going to have.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
To rename that because fifth Third is now going to
be in Detroit. I see this sometimes with stadiums. You
won't see it with Ford Field, that's never going to
become you know, Chrysler Center. But you are going to
see a lot of these stadiums change names. And that's
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why you don't get a tattoo with a stadium name.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I thought there was a fifth third field in Cincinnati already,
but maybe maybe it previously wasn't now something else? I can't, Frank,
I just can't keep up with it. Yeah, what what
team plays at take Horse Stadium?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Isn't that the Bengals?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah? Maybe, yeah, maybe, Yeah, Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I mean that's kind of the point. I mean, I
never I didn't sign up for this. You know, Cincinnati
Comma playing at home, Common defeated.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
You know Riverfront, right, Yeah, that's yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
So now the Tigers have scored nine unanswered runs. Rich, Yes,
are you concerned at this point that for this gaint
their entire magazine today? In No, No, you're not.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
No, I can never worry about that, exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
There is no carryover.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I've decided a few years of watching that that's that's
one of the pointless thing point like always be run greedy,
you never nervous. Could come up here and you know,
score three or four runs and make it nervous again.
You know, no, always be run greedy. You worry about
tomorrow tomorrow, And as they always say, runs scored yesterday
won't win today's game.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Hey, we have seen the Yankees score what eight unanswered
runs yesterday. The Tiger's doing the same thing now with
nine unanswered runs today. The Cubs now taking the lead
on the Brewers. Okay, I just got a notice here
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from Fred Thompson. What is going on here? Fifth Third
is acquiring Coo America. So that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, I see right, So I see Merchant.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, so that's it's it's really the same thing.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
But right, but now we'll see how it all works out.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
But it would be it would be odd if you know,
this is it. This is the end of that stadium
as we know. It seems like we just got it.
I'm still thinking about games State.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I know, but it's twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
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Speaker 4 (27:56):
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radio network. Jack Emblin here with my producer, Boston Rob.
Very happy to have Rich Kincaid with us. He has
some great stuff on the Lions, and we'll get to
that in just a couple of minutes. But Rich, what
are you of the Detroit Tigers today? Down three nothing
(01:05):
on the verge of a lot of tea times, and
here they are scoring seven runs.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Riley g.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Eight eight eight labor tauruses went yard.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Oh my goodness, so they'd hit one home run in
the previous three games, and here they go, and then
they're hitting them all over the place today. Riley Green
four hundred and fifty four foot shot. We see Hobby By,
Yeah he just see.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Yeah, he had a two run shot.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And it's it's all.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
The first four innings of this thing was looking like
the same old, same old, yeah, and it was. It
was frustrating me because the place is absolutely dead. And
when you think about it, the Tigers, they're not in
the postseason every season, right, and here everybody is giving
up on them. One in NY League game. I don't
care who it is. You got two relatively evenly matched teams.
(02:04):
You're odds of winning were about fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Get's always a coin to us. We'll get out there
and cheer.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
The first four innings Tigers rally consisted of turkles and
really catching one and driving it almost to the morning
track and ride. And then on the fourth, the top
of the fourth inning, I believe they had the leadoff
man on and somebody managed to hit into an unassisted
double play, three unassisted and you think that this is
just it was awful, And then all of a sudden,
(02:29):
the fifth inning, single single field of choice double scores,
miss Kensy McKinstry from first base on, you know, really
got the we made it three to one, really got
the crowd going. A couple board doubles, won them by bias,
ties the game. And then they hit the home runs
came in the bottom of the sixth inning, they hit
two of them. They left the field of leaving leading
(02:50):
seven to three. At at that point, it's eight to
three now and it's a it's a whole new deal, ain't.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It it is?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
And the idea of going back to Seattle. It's funny
how fast this changes. Rich As you were saying, yeah,
you know, when when the Tigers got that win in
Game one with scooball on the mound, a lot of
people thought, well, that'll be two zip. They'll come back,
they'll they'll split at least if they don't sweep them,
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they won't get back to Seattle. Tigers fans didn't want
to get back to Seattle. And then after the Mariners
win the next two games, they would have given anything
just to get back to Seattle. And now it looks
like that's exactly what's going to happen, and we're going
to get Scooball and Kirby again.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, the reabob.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I harken back to my first year covered Major League
Baseball deck and if you get tired of me telling
the story, you let me know. But the Tigers are
mired in a terrible hitting slump. They'd lost seven eight
games in row, couldn't get any We all know what
hitting slump is, which is what the time have been
in too much of the time since mid July and
especially here in the postseason up until this very day.
(04:08):
I asked the veteran, the late great Rusty Star about
the slump, and he said he said he was gonna swear,
but I was just a kid at the time. He said, Hey,
we're going to bust out of this thing and somebody's
gonna pay. Well, that doesn't necessarily happen, you know, just
because the new game started. Sometimes it happens in the
middle of the game. That's what's happened to the Tigers today.
They busted out and somebody's paying, and that's somebody's seattle.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Absolutely, So what do you think happens? Terrek?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
School ball has had really tough luck against the Mariners
this year. It's been the team that has kind of
had his number. Although he hasn't pitched terribly, He's pitched
pretty well actually.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Just hasn't gotten the decision. What do you think we're
going to see?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I think you're gonna see Terrek shove the ball right
up there. Collectives, you know, is what I think we're
going to see.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I give them the Sawing Award winner.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
This is the one man in baseball you want to
half pitched a must win game.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'm a fork. I want to see it. I think
that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, how about that proclamations quite like that one. We
get a lot of fence sitting and well, you know
this could happen. But if this happens, not from rich Kasten, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
This bulk club, this bulk club.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Jack has in so many regards, giving us so many
great stories this year, some of them heroic and some
of them tragic. All right, when was the last time
we had a summer with our baseball team? Was fifteen
games in first place?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, ages, You.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Got to go back to sixty eight for that kind
of nonsense. And then the collapse, which was operatic in nature.
You know, Shakespeare couldn't write this tragedy. They almost missed
the playoffs, and now for them to hang in there,
and I'm you know what, I'm I know this game
ain't over. I know it's eighty three, but it ain't over.
And that's kind of the way I think.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But you have a chance to go to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I won't have a chance to advance to the America
League Championships. Amazing in amazing summer, And no matter what happens,
it's just been well, you don't want to see. It's
been a lot of fun covering to Syne. We've been
a lot of fun being a fan of this team.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, I mean a lot of things can happen. This
season can be two days longer, and that would be
it or or cour this incredible story could continue and
the Tigers right now rich assuming that we don't get
the unfathomable here in the last couple of innings exactly,
(06:38):
the Tigers would be nine wins away from one of
the greatest stories in baseball history.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Absolutely right. Yeah, I started wondering for the Rubbings of
the playoffs. I'm doing the pregame show and it started
off the playoffs by saying the Rubbers are sixteen wins
away from Stanley Cup, you know, and then on Night
twos the Rubbings are still sixteen wins away from Stanley Cup, right.
I never got anywhere near the sixteen, So that's when
I stopped doing that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
It's yeah, the it's much I think it's much.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Better at this time of the year. It's so much
more fun.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Actually, just said that tires are one winner or one
day away from having their season be over. You know
what really strikes me, it's how the athletes and the
coaches handled Game seven pressure.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, I've had a chance. I was covering the.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Red Wings in Toronto. It's a number of years ago,
but they were in a Game seven on the road
against the may Ple Leafs, and I just remember the
pregame meal early in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
There was Brian Murray.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
The way of the world should have been crashing down
on their shoulders. But to each and every one of them,
it just struck me, this is just another game day,
you know, And maybe when you were when you reach
that level as a professional, that is how it is
to you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
But it was just it's from everybody.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Talks about nerves and YadA yadi but I've yet to
see an athlete, you know, like his knees knocking as
he's going through the buffetlan on a game day.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But you know, they just they take it in stride.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
One One comedian, apparently Toronto Mapleic's to coach has has
called on his team to play every game like at
the game seven, prompting a Canadian.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Comedian to say, well, the least are going to go
oh in eighty two.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Because they can't win a game seven.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Guys, I get a ton of texts during this show,
and some of them are informative, some of them are humorous,
some of them are derogatory. But I just had one
of the most interesting ones. This is from the same
guy who texted me and said it's over. I'm done
(08:44):
with this bowl right And now he texted me back
and he said, greatest day of twenty twenty five. Would
you rather play the Yankees or the Blue Jays?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh? Man, I'd rather play the Mariners on Friday night. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, let's let's enjoy that. You know, I came into
this probably.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Caring less about the Tiger's faith than you do, Rich,
but I have a soft spot for Seattle. The only
team in Major League Baseball that's never been to a
World Series. They've won one hundred and sixteen games in
the season, and they've had some of the greatest players,
but they have never been to a World Series. And
(09:32):
talking to some of their fans yesterday at co America,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I feel bad for them. If the Tigers win, great.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
If the Tigers don't win this series, I hope the
Mariners go on and you know, go a long way.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
But you know, Jack, how in this series they've been saying, well,
this is the Mariners first playoff win since twenty oh one.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
It means that for twenty five years they've been crummy. Okay,
so I'm not ready to but still a crown upon
them until they actually earned one.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It's been a while, it is.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It has been a while.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
And this is my you know, this is my second
This is my second favorite team from Seattle. The Seattle
Pilots are my all time favorite.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Oh there, I saw a lot of Seattle Pilots uniforms yesterday.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, those were bad. But I like the Teal Mariners.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And I'm not a I'm not a giant Teal guy,
I didn't think the Pistons belonged in Teal.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
But with the Mariners, you know, maybe it's the c thing.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I don't know, but you know.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
You're just good enough, Jack, You're just a namor to
this team.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm really I'm start worry about I'm sure worried.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I'm sure worried about what's gonna happen Friday if the
Tigers pulled this thing out.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
No, I'm I'm I'm I'm all about the Tigers winning.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Uh, it's time of the show. It's good for absolutely.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
You know, I did go out.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
On a limb here rich as you'll remember, at the
trade deadline, and I've been saying that Mariners are the
best team in the American League.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Doesn't mean they're going.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
To win the series, you know, going up against Trek
school Boy in Game five, they're going to be an
underdog at home. But nonetheless, I still think they're the
best team in the American League, even if they if
they lose this game by eight runs, and then.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, look you go up and down there.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
They start with Raina Rosa, whose name I apparently can't pronounce.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Now that I need to.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Rosa Arena.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, thank you, Randy. Randy one of the best. But
he's one of the best lead up guys in the game. Yeah,
you know, I think, and then then they just pound
you two through five? Yeah and five.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Is that Naylor a guy right who's just kills the Tigers?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
There?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Maybe there may be more than one Naylor. I'm starting
to learn more about this. There may be more than
one of them there are, But just like they're everywhere
and they killed the tech, I would rather I'd rather
face Nelson Cruise for Crown aloud, and he absolutely I believe.
I think I've seen Nelson cruise in person a fifty
home runs against the.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
T in my lifetime. I mean, I'd still rather face.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Him than one of these one of these Mailer brothers.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'll say, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All right, let's talk for a minute about Yeah, the
Detroit Lions.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, you go ahead, you have some interesting stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Courtesy once again, the Lions outstanding public relations department. The Lions,
they're doing things that have not happened in my lifetime.
They did a lot of those things last year. But
it makes me feel See, I'm not young I'm a
I'm an official old person now, okay, but things that
have not happened in my lifetime. For example, the Lions
(12:54):
has scored now thirty points in their four in four
straight games, which ties to the second longest streaking franchise history.
Franchise history takes us back to the nineteen thirties. Franchise
records in points one hundred and seventy four and touchdowns
score twenty two through the first five games of any
season on pressent, never happened before. Let's get to some
(13:15):
of the some of the individual notes, Alex, and help
me out with the linebackers, al thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Not with struggle with names like this.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's good, No, it's gently generally not.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
But nevertheless, it's the twenty eight pass defense as a
line that's the second most by a Lions linebacker since
nineteen ninety four. We mentioned that because now you're going
back over thirty years.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
For Jack Fox, the punter, gets in the notes this week.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
He had four punts inside the ten yard line last week,
tied for the most in a single game in franchise history.
Right right, amazing, Jared Jared Goff, Let's get to him.
He tied an NFL record by producing his sixth straight
world game with a complete percentage of at least seventy percent,
tied an NFL record. He joins Peyton Manning Peyton Manning
(14:07):
as the only quarterbacks in NFL history to accumulate at
least twelve touchdown passes, you know, in the in the
stretch times that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So as we go through these notes, you see Aiden Hutchinson,
he is a Tider record.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
He's the only NFL player to produce more such He
had a sack attack for loss at a fourth fumble, all right.
The only other player to produce more.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Such games as TJ. Watt. So my point is when
we when we're.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Looking at these guys, they're being compared to Peyton Manning
at TJ. Watt, and they're setting franchise records. And I
just think it's remarkable and fun.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That I'm worried about Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, what about all these injuries in the secondary and
what they're lable to run into at Arrowhead Stadium.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, see, you got Ken Siddy losing a heartbreaker last
night on the road, playing a short week. But they're
two and three now, and it's the cornered animal that
fights the heartest.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's the thing that worries me the most.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Okay, injuries in the secondary sounds like the same record.
We began playing it about this time last year for
the Detroit Lions, and they were able to cope all
the way into the.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Playoffs when they were not able to.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
So it's yeah, injuries, that's just a greater known and
apparently the number one factory in handicapping any football game
is knowing who's hurt. And I don't know who's hurt
this week, so it's difficult. It's difficult to handicap. I
just think it's a It's a great opportunity for the
Lives to go out there and duplicate what they did
in twenty twenty three, go to Airhead and.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Win, and it should be a heck of respective.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
It's really a good time to kick Kansas City when
they're down too.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Right, right, Yeah, there was a point where nobody won
in Kansas City. And now you wonder what happened to
that Lion's team we saw in Green Bay.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Where did they go?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Remember the.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Mark Antonio got really mad at me after the Spartans
opened against Notre Dame at home one year, fifteen years ago, whatever,
and they got beat twenty one to nothing. And I
asked him if he thought this were an aberration? Okay,
and he got really mad at me.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
What do you mean an aberration?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I mean, well, I didn't want to define.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
The word, but you know, they went into that game
rank I guess Notre Dame. They came out getting clobbered
by Notre Dame. And I wonder if, wonder if that's
not what has happened, what happened in game one?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
In Game one, it was just an aberration.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that. It doesn't look like
these teams now are the same. Certainly Green Bay played
this way and Lions haven't played anything like this. So
is there a better team in the National Football League
right now than the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Oh geez, I forgot to look at my power rankings.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'd play anybody this week if I were Detroit.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I think I'd answered the question that way.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah. Yeah, Would you like the Lions chances on a
neutral field against the Philadelphia Eagles or the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's a really good question.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
We saw Buffalo beat the Lions last year at Ford Field.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Exactly that this was one of those forty year that
was last year. It was one of those forty one
thirty eight games that you know, dependent on who had
the ball last, kind of kind of situation.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think I'd take Buffalo. They do.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
They do match up well well against them, So yeah,
I would I'd take Buffalo that scenario.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Okay, you would have loved.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You would have loved seeing what happened last Friday night
rich at President Center. First of all, it was the
izone camp out, so they had tents as far as
the eye could see, and they were bodysurfing players all
over the place. They had a drone show, which I've
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never seen anything like that.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They had a seven foot one and a.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Half center in there who was directing the crowd recruit.
They had Dan Campbell introducing tom Izzo. They had Iszo
hopping out of a bass drum that had been pounded on.
They had Hooper from the Pistons, Rory from the Lions,
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Pause from the Tigers, along with Sparty and then Izo.
We said that they had three masks. It's a Hooper
and a Yoper posing for pictures and it was the
greatest white out I have ever seen. It in Michigan State.
The place was jammed. It was It was a night
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that I didn't know that they could create.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And these are the same students that sometimes annoyed by
leaving football games early and leaving the stadium not looking
as full as.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It might as well might otherwise be.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
But I'll tell you what you You can't match the
kind of spirit that you described and what happened.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Last Friday night.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
I remember being at Michigan State back in the nineteen
seventies and they had this thing, but it wasn't exactly
as big a deal as it is now.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You know, it's maybe.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Maybe it's maybe you stagger over from the library if
you're you know, bleary eyed, you know from your from
your studies, you know, and hear commotion near Jennison and
go check it out. A boy there, they're camped out
two three nights in the grants, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
No, they let them camp out.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
But they when they start putting these tents out, I mean,
they don't start a week. It's not like Skrzyzewskyville. But
it was very impressive. I'll just say that. And more
people on monthfield Friday night and Saturday morning than there
will ever be for a football tailgate.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So, by the way, am I going to see you
Saturday at Smart for the UCLA game?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Now, how can safe at eight and a half point
favorite after UCLA does knock out Penn State?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Explain that to me?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Okay, because some people actually saw UCLA get eviscerated by
New Mexico and loss, lose badly to UNLV and lose
to Northwestern. So the question is what was that last Saturday?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Exactly? That's exactly what was that?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, that's the thing, that's just yeah, no, go ahead,
I said.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
The other thing that's really interesting about this rich You
remember when Michigan State played USC, the crosstown rival of
the Bruins, and this was in the coliseum an eleven
PM start yester time, so that everyone was pitching about
body clocks. Well, this is a noon start here, which
means the Bruins are playing.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
At nine am. Yes, I think that matters.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
So you know it, man, and we never think about it.
You only think about the effects of traveling out west
of starting games as you know, in the middle of
the night. As you describe it, Yeah, that was you
know what, just talking to your guests Listening to your
guests earlier in the show talking about college football, the
matchups are just unbelievable. I mean you can say we
want about the Big Ten, will be in the Big
(22:05):
twenty three or how many schools run the conference, but
you get to see you get to see Michigan USC.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, you know, you.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Get a match up like Minnesota and Oregon State, you know,
and for that matter, u c l A against Penn State.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, you know, my.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Big question for years.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
And ogze the game of the week, that's game day
and everything else is going to be there for.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
That and how and and and I know it's it's
been a year's long process, but how exactly does Indiana
get seventh in the nation good at football? I think
that's a terrific story, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, And I have no answer to that because I
watched so many coaches crash and burned there and some
came in with the test of intentions. Oh sure, and
good records resumes, but yeah, I wouldn't get it done there.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Well, you talking about buying, that's what's going on down
there as near as I can tell.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, speaking a buy in or Baiaz if we're talking
about amazing stories or one day, you know, go figures.
What do you make of Hobby bay As the last couple.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Of weeks after as bad as a batter could look,
swinging at pitches in the other batter's box, right, and
today big hits again.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean, he looks like a major league hitter again.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Yeah, I don't exactly know, because he had he had
the peak there at the All Star Game, you know,
comeback player of the Year, everything else going on, and
then he came back and again he started biting on
at curveball that would force him to swing, and pitches
compel him to swing, and pitches that were in the
left hander's batter's box, and it's it's a bad look.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Maybe pictures one thing. I have notices, and this is
a Gavas thing. They're not throwing pictures to the left
handed batter's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Box anymore from around the sky. I don't even know why. Yeah,
well they seem to be.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
They seem to want to challenge him, and I'm like why,
But I think that's what's going on. Of course, he
says he's up right now, by the way, and he
does have that. I'm not I'm not sure how much
about the game I'm allowed to divulge in real time
for fear of, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Biologing the Commission's rules. I mean, we brought.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If he's listening, we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
That sounds good, that's all right.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Now the Tigers have runners on first and third, one
out in the bottom of the eighth and uh, probably
their last at bat and might be their last at
bat ever at Comerica Park, Rich.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well this year, Yeah, it might be. It's nine the
free Now, by the way, what do you.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Mean you have a bias for some of these guys.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
No, I'm talking about not just the individuals. But isn't
Comerica Park going by the wayside? Is that going to
be fifth Third Park?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh I did not hear that.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Oh yeah, that's how much that's that's how much attention
I paid a corporate sports.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
This contract is up, and my understanding yesterday talking to
some people, you know that that's basically a done deal
that they are going to you know, I guess the
the mud Hens also played at fifth Third Park right
in Toledo.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, So I'm going to have.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
To rename that because fifth Third is now going to
be in Detroit. I see this sometimes with stadiums. You
won't see it with Ford Field, that's never going to
become you know, Chrysler Center. But you are going to
see a lot of these stadiums change names. And that's
(25:45):
why you don't get a tattoo with a stadium name.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
I thought there was a fifth third field in Cincinnati already,
but maybe maybe it previously wasn't now something else? I can't, Frank,
I just can't keep up with it. Yeah, what what
team plays at take Horse Stadium?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Isn't that the Bengals?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah? Maybe, yeah, maybe, Yeah, Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I mean that's kind of the point. I mean, I
never I didn't sign up for this. You know, Cincinnati
Comma playing at home, Common defeated.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
You know Riverfront, right, Yeah, that's yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
So now the Tigers have scored nine unanswered runs. Rich, Yes,
are you concerned at this point that for this gaint
their entire magazine today? In No, No, you're not.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
No, I can never worry about that, exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
There is no carryover.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I've decided a few years of watching that that's that's
one of the pointless thing point like always be run greedy,
you never nervous. Could come up here and you know,
score three or four runs and make it nervous again.
You know, no, always be run greedy. You worry about
tomorrow tomorrow, And as they always say, runs scored yesterday
won't win today's game.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Hey, we have seen the Yankees score what eight unanswered
runs yesterday. The Tiger's doing the same thing now with
nine unanswered runs today. The Cubs now taking the lead
on the Brewers. Okay, I just got a notice here
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from Fred Thompson. What is going on here? Fifth Third
is acquiring Coo America. So that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, I see right, So I see Merchant.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, so that's it's it's really the same thing.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
But right, but now we'll see how it all works out.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
But it would be it would be odd if you know,
this is it. This is the end of that stadium
as we know. It seems like we just got it.
I'm still thinking about games State.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I know, but it's twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yes, exactly. Think some much for joining us. I really
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
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got a game Friday night.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
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against I think it's the West Bloomfield. A great story
for five to last week, by the way, their number
one running back left the game, he was shaken up,
came back played a player two left the game, his
brother came in and scored two touchdowns. And I'm thinking,
how much, how nice much is amout to be to
be that coach that when your star player goes out,
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you just summon up his brother and he'll he'll go
in there.
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You know you don't miss a beat. It was fun.
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