00:00But there's no order, and there's no do-overs.
00:04Correct.
00:04Now, what is today's, what's the topic du jour?
00:07I was going to go non-sports, but I decided to still go sports.
00:11In your honor, and I guess a little bit of my honor, too, but we are not included.
00:16Okay.
00:17The top 12 Mikes or Michaels in Detroit sports in this century.
00:26Oh, God.
00:27Okay.
00:27So we're going to have a little fun.
00:29Okay.
00:30I would all do respect to Mikkel Samuelson and Mikkel LeShure and his potpourri.
00:38That doesn't count.
00:39Mikkels are not.
00:40They're fake.
00:40Yes.
00:41Not real Mikes.
00:42So it's Mike, Michael, or Mikey's.
00:44Okay.
00:45Mikey Moore?
00:48Maybe.
00:48Okay.
00:49All right.
00:49Maybe.
00:50And we're doing 10 or 12?
00:5212.
00:52Oh, God.
00:53All right.
00:53Okay.
00:53You ready?
00:54Yeah.
00:54Here we go.
00:57Michael Fulmer.
00:59Wow.
01:01Mercurial.
01:02A brief flashpoint in history.
01:04And boy, did Avila screw up by not trading him.
01:07All right.
01:09Rookie of the year.
01:10I'm sure if I'm not.
01:11I know.
01:11I know.
01:12I'm thinking number eight.
01:15Okay.
01:15I'm thinking quality for how good he was for the short time, but I can't put him higher
01:22on that list.
01:24Okay.
01:25Kenny, you're my Sherpa here.
01:27You comfortable at eight?
01:29I think eight is a reasonable location.
01:32See, Kenny has seen the list, though.
01:33I've seen the list.
01:34Oh, my bad.
01:35I'm sorry.
01:36I'm not basing it on having seen the list.
01:38Just off rip, if you were to ask me to do this blind, I would have put him somewhere
01:41around eight out of 12.
01:42Okay.
01:43I apologize, and I will not come to you for the sanctity of the game.
01:47So he's at eight.
01:48He's at eight.
01:49Okay.
01:51Let's go with former Detroit Lion, Mike Furry.
01:57I mean, that has to be dead last.
02:00That's not even a player.
02:03Okay.
02:04I can't believe that.
02:06What is...
02:07Hold on.
02:07I'm having some troubles here with the ranking system.
02:10My numbers are disappearing.
02:12It's a disaster.
02:13Hold on.
02:16I'll put Mike Furry 12.
02:17I'm sorry.
02:18That's ridiculous.
02:19Okay.
02:20Next up, Mike Hart.
02:25Oh, come on.
02:26Excellent player.
02:27I mean, we're talking four years, dominance.
02:30I don't care about the little bro thing all these years later.
02:33We're talking quality of player.
02:34It kind of helped you guys, really.
02:35It did.
02:36He was an unbelievable football player.
02:39Also, Kenny, if you want to see one of the greatest runs in the history of football,
02:43somewhere on YouTube, you can find Mike Hart in the New York State High School Championships
02:49at the Carrier Dome.
02:51Oh, he's from Syracuse.
02:52Yeah.
02:52It is a wild run.
02:55I'm going to go Mike Hart number five.
03:00Okay.
03:00Is that...
03:01I can't ask anybody.
03:02You can't ask anybody.
03:03It's so difficult.
03:04Okay.
03:04Okay.
03:05All right.
03:05Mike Hart at number five.
03:06I think he's a top five Detroit Mike.
03:09Okay.
03:10Next up.
03:13We'll stick with the one other collegiate player we have in here.
03:17Okay.
03:17I wanted to be equal to both big schools.
03:20All right.
03:21Big moment.
03:23Michael Geiger.
03:26Yeah, he's a kicker.
03:27Yeah.
03:27I know the Ohio State game and the whole playing the guitar and all that.
03:33This is...
03:34All right.
03:35I'm thinking 10 because I want to leave space for someone that's even less...
03:41...important than a kicker.
03:43I'm going to go Geiger at 10.
03:46I was going to use Mike Chappelle for my other Michigan State guy, but I decided not.
03:50Noted Duke transfer who lost his ability to shoot threes in the transfer.
03:56Okay.
03:57Jeez, he just ran around everybody like four different times.
04:00This is why we do Kenny on sports.
04:02I introduce you to clips that are just before your time.
04:07It's pretty incredible.
04:08Okay.
04:08All right.
04:09Next up.
04:10Mike James, bitch.
04:13Oh, part of the Palace Guards.
04:15The Pit Bulls.
04:17I want to respect him.
04:19I know he's going to have another absolute dud on this list.
04:25What if I put Mike James...
04:27This is tough.
04:28If I put him ninth, I only have one spot lower.
04:32I can't put him above Mike Fulmer.
04:34He did win a championship.
04:35It's more important than a kicker.
04:38I'm going to put Mike James ninth.
04:40Okay.
04:43Should we have fun now or wait a little second?
04:45Just have fun.
04:46I don't care.
04:47I think this is so difficult.
04:50Mike Williams.
04:53Fat Mike Williams?
04:54Wide receiver.
04:56The guy who half the NFL didn't have on their board as a wide receiver?
05:00Well, the Lions took the third wide receiver in three straight years.
05:02Yes.
05:03If there was ever a player who lived up athletically, I don't know him as a human being, but as
05:10a football draft pick, he defines waste of skin.
05:13But Mike Williams, number 11.
05:15Okay.
05:16Absolute poo.
05:18Just terrible.
05:22Michael Rasmussen.
05:23Damn it.
05:24I should have had him at 11.
05:27Now I'm stuck with the guy Kenny refers to as Asmussen at number seven.
05:34Okay.
05:34Oh, man.
05:35He needs to be down by Mike Furry.
05:37Mm-hmm.
05:38Oh.
05:39This is so bad.
05:42I try to be such a good sport, and I can't keep up with stoning.
05:45This is a fun one.
05:47See, now your list looks stupid.
05:49I do.
05:49And it's spelled S-T-O-O-P-I-D.
05:53Stupid.
05:56Mike, or some people call him Mikey, but Mike Maroth.
06:01Oh, my God.
06:02Lost 20 games in one season.
06:04Oh, my God.
06:05This gets worse and worse.
06:07I have to put him six.
06:08I don't have a choice.
06:09Guys, this is a complete, this may be the worst job I've done.
06:14Actually, maybe not.
06:18All right.
06:19Next up.
06:19Oh, great.
06:22As Marty Mordenweg would say, Mike McMahon's the guy.
06:28Oh, come on.
06:30Noted Rutgers quarterback, Mike.
06:33Addicted to tanning salons.
06:36Character on a Jersey Shore.
06:39Oh, man.
06:40I can't put him ahead of Mike.
06:41This is so disrespectful.
06:42I have screwed the pooch on this.
06:44I got to put him ahead of Mike Hart.
06:47This is a disgrace.
06:48I've done such a good job with these lists.
06:50I have completely.
06:52This is like the Lions free agency.
06:54There's little brother all over again.
06:55I've dropped the ball.
06:56This is awful.
06:58Okay.
06:58Next.
06:59What number are you giving him?
07:00I don't want to talk about it.
07:01Come on.
07:02I put him at four.
07:06It's going to get better, Mike.
07:07It's going to get better.
07:10This is so bad.
07:11How can there be no talented Mikes?
07:13Mike Babcock.
07:15Okay.
07:15Now, hold on.
07:16He was a really good coach.
07:17Come on.
07:18He won a Stanley Cup.
07:19I know his players thought he was an ass.
07:21He was.
07:22He talked really funny.
07:25Babcock.
07:26Babcock.
07:26I'll put him.
07:29Oh, this is tough.
07:30Now, if I put him three, he's going to have another one of these Beakmans.
07:34Oh, God.
07:38Can he help me?
07:39Come on.
07:40Do I put him three, two?
07:41I can't put him as the number one Mike all time, right?
07:45I can't help you.
07:46I'm sorry.
07:46I'll put him two.
07:47Name of the game.
07:48I'll put him two.
07:49This is unfair.
07:50All right.
07:51Oh, no.
07:53The whole list list is a disaster.
07:56Oh, I can't wait for the next name or one of the last two.
07:59Should I give him the most obscure one first?
08:02Yes.
08:03Sure.
08:05Mikey Matook.
08:10Mikey Matook made your top three.
08:12Mike, how do you feel about that one?
08:14I feel like I owe this entire audience a complete apology.
08:19How the hell?
08:20Well, why did I assume there were just some Mikes with talent in this town?
08:26I got Fulmer eight, and look at the pile of refuse I have at two, three.
08:34Okay.
08:35Some of these are redeemable.
08:37Some, Mike McMahon's tanning bed, is not.
08:40The number one all-time Mike.
08:43So, Matook is three.
08:44Yeah, because I don't have a choice.
08:45Okay, number one, I think, is legitimate for what he's done.
08:50Mike Tirico.
08:51No.
08:52Mike Illich.
08:54Okay.
08:55Listen, this, okay, here's how I would view this.
08:59We're going to term this for the series of blind ranks we have done together.
09:04This is going to be termed peaks and valleys.
09:06There are some sensible things in here, like Mike Illich one, Babcock two, Mike Hart five, Fulmer eight.
09:14Mike Matook three.
09:15Right, right, right, right.
09:17Tanning salon four, Mike Marat six.
09:21I mean, Mike James at nine isn't offensive.
09:24Mike Geiger at ten.
09:25Mike Williams is terrible.
09:26But, yeah, we're light on Mike talent.
09:30There was, what, Panashuk?
09:32I completely understood your strategy, Mike, of putting Mike Hart five, because you just
09:37didn't know.
09:38Right.
09:38That's the blind rank at work.
09:40There was quite a few others I could have, you know, put in here.
09:43Oh, please.
09:44You mentioned Mikey Moore, Michael Curry.
09:47Oh, dear.
09:48Yeah.
09:48There really was.
09:49There wasn't as many Mikes.
09:51How have we been this talentless with this name?
09:54I don't know.
09:55And I got to be honest, I thought he was going to pull a Tirico there.
09:59I thought I had to leave a spot for Mikey T.
10:01Oh, yeah.
10:02But that's okay.
10:03Not mad about it.
10:04I just, if you're doing top ten Mikes in Detroit history for sports, Tirico's got to be on the
10:09list.
10:09But he's not Detroit because it's Ann Arbor.
10:12Well, not that.
10:13He's not actually from Detroit.
10:15I don't know.
10:15Does anyone ever tell him to go back to New York?
10:20I'd like to workshop this.
10:22And by the way, I did tell Stoney to put himself in this.
10:26He did not.
10:27You should have.
10:29You are the Howard Eskin of this town.
10:32You founded Sports Radio.
10:33Well, I would have put you in there, too.
10:35But I decided that I could not rank myself.
10:38I would be no part of it.
10:40Look, I understand.
10:41But I would have ranked you.
10:42And you would have been ahead of Mikey Matuk.
10:45That's a disgrace.
10:46All right.
10:47That is the blind rank.
10:48Not my finest work.
10:5097-1.
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