00:02let's get back to the phones 248-539-9797 same number to text keith is next here on 97.1
00:09hey
00:09keith how you doing man you know i was just talking to a friend today i said hang on keith
00:16i gotta put you on hold keith because that uh you're in a bad cell i think um gotta figure
00:21that out sounds like he's doing a show underwater like a former friend of ours used to do
00:29what am i missing who did the show underwater the mega man he used to pretend i'm doing my show
00:34underwater i don't remember saying that oh yeah back in the old old days back in the days i produced
00:40his show i don't recall before that before that yeah uh anyway hope he is well hope he's recovered
00:47well uh but anyway we're getting uh to the uh i i mentioned that max crosby is now that it's
00:54a
00:54pipe dream it's gone right or is it i mean some people still think it look until he's actually
01:00playing in a raider uniform that it's still a possibility but i've given up on the dream i
01:06think it's done and when i gave up on the dream and it's sad to give up on that dream
01:13i started to
01:14think about who are the athletes in this century that this town has missed out on that that hurt you
01:23the most like you got all you put all your eggs in the basket this one player thought for sure
01:28they
01:28were going to trade for him or they were going to sign sign him and as a free agent or
01:33they're going
01:33to draft him however the transaction was going to to work they became a detroit athlete who was it that
01:41that you really bought into this is going to be the one they're going to do it they're going to
01:45do
01:45it they're going to do it and then it didn't happen and it hurts so bad well there's two
01:50two that i thought of one you knew early on in the process so to speak that they weren't going
01:59to
01:59draft him but you still a lot of us held on hope that uh mr dumars would change his mind
02:09and select
02:09carmelo anthony with the second pick of the 2003 nba draft is that what you felt back then in 2003
02:15or
02:15whatever it was yeah you were on the draft night you're like please take carmelo please take
02:19carmelo yeah i mean because all the reports on on dark were unbelievable i know but i i wanted
02:26something that was proven but i wasn't like going crazy about it but it was you know deep inside so
02:31you know maybe they'll do something that really makes sense that was one where i got hoodwinked as a
02:37fan oh yeah i i bought into all the hype reading all the the articles that came out of there
02:42you had
02:43all the grainy footage of the the 10 minutes that darko played in europe you know because he didn't
02:47play much but you bought into all the hype you know the the the scouts and everybody's saying oh
02:52my god this kid's over seven feet tall knocks down three pointers like it's his job and this is 23
02:59years ago he knocks down all these three pointers plays in a mean streak he's a mean mean player he
03:04grabs every rebound he's got his incredible you know vertical leap and does all these great things
03:08okay i i bought it that's i'll take that as opposed to what your eyes saw first which was
03:16carmelo anthony being fantastic yes or even to an extent dwayne wade who had a you know like one
03:22phenomenal game in the uh in the ncaa tournament right and you're like what about that guy no no no
03:26no focus your attention over here on this big fella because he's going to be the next big thing
03:32most people wanted carmelo over darko or they believed the hype like you did bosh was also
03:40considered because that's what they kind of needed but anyway anyway my other one though was one that
03:46a lot of people thought they were getting there were all these rumors that uh his wife was in town
03:53shopping for houses and that was uh after lloyd carr left every a lot of people wanted less miles to
04:00be
04:00the head football coach in michigan and they ended up with rich rod yeah that got shut down
04:07and there were reports or rumors i guess well in herb street it's got a lot of flack for like
04:16saying it was going to happen it didn't but i don't think that was the reason it didn't i mean
04:20well
04:21i don't know if they had a deal agreed to or not and then it fell apart or bill martin
04:25the ad
04:25there were people inside the wall that said this is not going to happen yeah that's probable too
04:30um which is interesting because then you had the coach from rutgers shiana was going to take and
04:34then shiana was like i don't want the job um and and spurned it uh interesting how that worked out
04:40for me the the big one was it just happened a year ago i totally thought for sure they got
04:47alex
04:47bregman it's going to happen like they've made the best offer for alex bregman here we go it's like
04:51170 something million dollars that he's going to be a detroit tiger i can't believe this it's going to
04:56happen and then oh alex bregman signed a four-year deal with the boston red sox for 160 million dollars
05:05he's going to get 40 million a year like what in what universe does that work and then you see
05:10the
05:10rest of the contract he's got an out after the first year and after the second year and after
05:13the third year like oh and he used that out and he used that out and and got paid again
05:18uh but that
05:19was uh that to me was the one that hurt because i really had bought into it i'm like here
05:24we go
05:24this is a tiger team that had made the playoffs didn't expect them to make the playoffs and they
05:29made the playoffs and okay now they're going to put the big boy pants on go make a big boy
05:34move
05:35and and and get this bat that makes all the sense in the world he's got this relationship
05:39with a.j hinch everybody likes him as a teammate they say great things about him he's a former
05:44champion let's go here we we've got this you know we saw there was that that picture of a.j.
05:50and
05:50alex bregman having lunch we got it it's happening and then it didn't happen was it oh yeah that to
05:57me was the one that just took the wind out of my sails i mean there certainly were some draft
06:01picks
06:02over time but yeah that was the one that really got me for you it's uh it's carmelo uh over
06:07over
06:08darko for me it was thinking we had alex bregman but what was the one move that you thought for
06:13sure
06:13was going to happen for our team and it didn't happen a lot of people really thought that the lions
06:18were going to go out and get max crosby if he became available and before it was like well is
06:24he even available well he was available he was on a trademark was literally traded and then the trade
06:29got rescinded and then you're still available but now it looks like it's shot down because he's saying
06:35that he's not going anywhere 248-539-9797 is the telephone number let's go to the phones and
06:42brian's in detroit you're next up here 971 hey brian i want to ask you a question get it before
06:47i get the
06:47right now you think the lions because you made a comment about the super bowl and lions you think
06:53they're on that path now still after free agency is over no basically no i don't think they've got
06:58enough right now no okay this is what this will make me drive off the road every time i hear
07:03the
07:04name terry fair because how in the world how in the world you let a once in a lifetime player
07:11and you
07:11pick a guy like terry fair that's when i knew the lions were a trash organization you know what else
07:16brian
07:17you know what makes that worse is that they drafted a receiver jermaine crowell in the second
07:21round so it wasn't that they didn't think they needed a receiver so they passed on randy moss for
07:26those that don't remember on that draft that's what i'm referring to and you know the worst part i was
07:32sitting there i'm thinking oh my goodness we about to see the best receiver ever i mean coming out of
07:37college he was he was just it was unbelievable and when the name terry fair came up i said they
07:43smoking
07:43crack down at the lions facility that is unbelievable you go pick him they had company because how many
07:48teams passed on him that i didn't care about the other i know i'm just saying i hear you bro
07:54i'm
07:54just saying that everybody else passed on him too and i didn't want to give crowell crap i was gonna
07:58say crowell had at least one i think it were two really good years of jermaine crowell but but he
08:02had the one great play to gus ferratt to jermaine crowell in a big fourth down when they beat the
08:09rams
08:10remember that the silver dome yeah and then what happened didn't make the playoffs yeah of course
08:16yeah yeah uh it was it was uh it was trouble watching it um and that's that's actually not
08:21the century that was back in the 90s when that when that was uh when they drafted terry fair who
08:27by the
08:27way wasn't he was he rookie of the year or was he i don't know all i know the rumor
08:32the rumor is he
08:33broke his knuckle or whatever punching in the wall at like club land or the state theater one of those
08:38places pecs if you want to get to us that way talking about who's the guy you can't believe
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