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Is Kevin McGonigle on pace to make the Opening Day roster for the Detroit Tigers?
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00:03we all uh we all want the same thing we want our teams to go out there and give it
00:09their all the
00:10old 110 and win a championship and it's in our best interest that for the detroit tigers what's
00:16going on right now down in florida terrick scoogle through one and two thirds two strikeouts no base
00:23runners allowed take that right yeah absolutely gotta you know i hope this guy goes out and
00:30dominates and um you know everything calms down here a little bit for the purposes of this season
00:37i'm mad too probably leaving but when it's all said and done it's why not as as one person put
00:45it
00:45the reason they weren't mad they're looking at is we're gonna use him to win a world series
00:52that's the plan yep that's absolutely the plan and uh you know getting back on the hill today
00:57to finish up his last spring's training start just go through it stay healthy be fluid and
01:03let's hope it's a nice long season extending well into october maybe later for the tigers as i say
01:10that he just gave up a single well um with that said what do you make of this prospects game
01:18what's going on tonight oh i'm sorry is there a prospects game tonight gator loves this stuff is
01:24there is there something else to watch tonight with you you fired up for this with the base with the
01:28tigers prospects yes you could say i'm fired up they're taking on pittsburgh's team of prospects as
01:34well now these are guys that are not uh not necessarily competing for the for major league roster right
01:40now so mcgonigal is not part of this group i don't believe at least the roster i saw yep show
01:45that he
01:45was not however the guys that are these are players i want to see play if you're going to tell
01:50me i get to watch a game every night that's going to have the top prospects on his team like
01:54you know
01:54max clark and uh edward valencia and you've you've got uh bryce rayner and jordan he's healthy yeah okay
02:04uh and jordan yost these guys are going to play they're the first round picks for the last couple
02:08of years and um you know chris rodriguez i'm dying to see this game i can't wait for this game
02:14is chris
02:15rodriguez the guy that was it's like 17 purple shirts versus the orange shirts grainy video from
02:19dominican league 2 yes that was going around yeah and everybody says he's unbelievable he's 17 years
02:26old but he's literally playing it looks like a game that's they're playing oh you know down at the
02:32park yes yes and i don't even know if he's going to play at lakeland this year if he's going
02:36to spend
02:36another year year in that in that league uh but he's got all tons of potential they they rave about
02:43him his frame and all this and his ability to do everything out there i'm looking forward to watching
02:48him play uh they have the catching prospect michael oliveto who they drafted uh recently you know
02:54looking forward to seeing him out there they've got some pitching guys that jimenez who has pitched a
02:59little bit in spring training has been dynamic with a high 90s fastball yeah looking forward to it i'm
03:05probably more jacked about that than i am following what the tigers are doing in spring training this
03:08afternoon where's that game broadcast do you know i think it's on mlb network tonight okay uh i believe
03:14peacock as well baseball's actually done a decent job of trying to introduce you to the next wave of
03:20players before they get here yeah they really promote it uh mlb.com does a great job of promoting it
03:27they keep letting you know here's mlbpipeline.com that lists each team's top 30 prospects overall
03:34they rank the top you know 100 in the league and you know they do all types of rankings which
03:39are
03:39really kind of fun to to watch along as the season goes to get an idea and you know who's
03:44the next guy
03:45to root for uh with the tigers 248-539-9797 in the meantime uh we asked that question on twitter
03:52about michigan and michigan state uh how you feeling today do you think your team has a shot
03:56to make a run to the final four why or why not mike tweets us michigan has a great shot
04:01because of
04:01mara michigan state has got to shoot better well they can't shoot much better than they did last
04:06i mean 59 is pretty good 50 from three point land is pretty good michigan state in that game when
04:13you
04:13are the favorite and a heavy favorite you should be able to have your way down low
04:19in the interior michigan state did cooper i mean for north dakota state cooper was a tough guard
04:27yes yeah that's right we're talking about the matchups you got the height advantage the size
04:32advantage take advantage don't don't ignore that no and stay out of foul trouble the other one he said
04:39michigan's got a shot because of mara mara is just such a like a freak like he's in a good
04:46way
04:46you just don't get guys that are that big and he's a little bit gumpy you know i say sometimes
04:52it looks a little uncoordinated but he's such a factor around the rim he is and we see it in
04:58the
04:58nba when you've got somebody who's that much bigger than everybody else they can be that defensive
05:03factor that that forces you to alter every shot that comes within six feet of the rim and look he's
05:09not as big as wemby doesn't have all the other intangibles that wemby does but still this is a guy
05:14who's a legit seven footer that is uh scary to play against when you bring it up to the rack
05:18he
05:18doesn't need to block your shot to impact your shot and the other thing he does is he's one of
05:24those i think a really good big man passer you know when you got a big man that that's good
05:29at
05:30distributing the ball yeah chris weber was a really good big man passer was great at it yep and um
05:35amara is a pretty decent big man passer and they're gonna have to figure out i'm gonna guess
05:40st louis throw some zone at him uh and michigan's gonna have to figure out a way to they want
05:45to
05:45enter the basketball yesterday and i had this stat earlier from clayton safey of the wolverine
05:50michigan from the floor from two point range 26 of 31 and their average shot distance was 3.3 feet
05:59two inches you're gonna go 26 for 31 in college basketball a lot when you're shooting from that
06:05close to the basket exactly which is why you do it if you can do it do it you know
06:10if you can't
06:11then obviously you have to alter your game plan or or if you can't your game plan is more than
06:16likely
06:16to to shoot from three which is what teams have to do when they don't have the size which is
06:21why
06:22tomorrow's matchup is interesting against st louis and or yeah st louis yeah so st louis is you know
06:29going to bring uh this this beyond the arc attack against michigan um but michigan's got athletes
06:36too and you know go ahead and do that and if the result is oh crap now we can't shoot
06:41from the
06:41outside we'll fake outside go inside well then you got to deal with you know michigan's version of the
06:46hydra and that's that's uh mara yeah i don't look i don't think this is 100 true but it feels
06:51to me
06:51like when mores johnson's on michigan can't be beat and it's probably not true but you know when he is
06:58effective um he and cadeau are kind of to me the barometers and and mores didn't have a great
07:05trip to chicago in the big 10 tournament came back played very very well uh in that game last night
07:12spartan shot it well from the perimeter and they get louisville banged up louisville team but i do uh
07:17like their chances again tomorrow let's go to william you're next on 97.1 hello william
07:23how you doing good good uh michigan michigan state i want them out both out by the sweet 16
07:32you want them both out yes for my bracket sake so are you a michigan or michigan state fan during
07:40the season a michigan fan but at the end of the day why on earth are you rooting for your
07:45bracket
07:46over rooting for your team to win a national championship because there's a lot of money
07:50in my bracket how expensive how expensive was it to get into your uh your pool 25 bucks
07:59and how much will you win i could win three thousand dollars that's a significant amount
08:06of money that's a lot of will cheddar uh but i will tell you i couldn't i couldn't go through
08:11all right there you go you want some love for that uh would you do that would you root for
08:16your
08:16bracket over your team no for three thousand dollars no for it's really what it is it's for 25 bucks
08:22you put 25 bucks in dude don't you you should want your team to win yeah well i'm let me
08:30tell you
08:30what my bracket is the last no i don't want to hear the bracket um no listen just let me
08:38talk the
08:40four final four are all two rated number twos you took all the two seats in the final four
08:48iowa state so you got iowa state houston uconn and purdue yes sir i mean yeah well good luck
08:57okay i mean look everybody has their own priorities right our guy there prioritizes the three okay so
09:05there's obviously yes to each their own yep the way i looked at it you know that i have duke
09:10winning
09:10it all yes do you know how happy i would have been if duke lost last night right i don't
09:16care about
09:16the bracket you know the bracket's fun the bracket's fun to see okay in the end i did i was
09:23i close or
09:23what i always end up rooting against my bracket when it's a huge upset like that always yes like you
09:30just start laughing you smile it might be different though if it was like the last game though then i'm
09:34room for my brag you know what i mean or like the final four probably not an upset no it's
09:37probably
09:37not but or colossal because in the early i don't think i'm gonna win anyway so i'm just like yeah
09:41go sienna go high point go you know go queens i mean look bottom line here everybody's got their
09:51own priorities and i i think about how much money it would take for you to say okay i'll root
09:58against
09:58michigan state ten thousand dollars for the chance to win it or i mean in this situation
10:05the guys already rooting against the teams and they just started the first round i know
10:10i mean you can tell me i have a chance to win a hundred thousand dollars and i'm still not
10:14at this stage i'm not rooting against too early right yeah if it's like the elite eight that's what
10:19i was saying how close are we you know then we might be a little different story and even then
10:22you know you're nowhere near far and away the leader when it comes to that because
10:28if the pool is worth that much money i'm guessing there's a bunch of people involved so
10:33i would also imagine people involved in this in this in this bracket and you know you've got 50
10:41other people you're competing against when you get to the elite eight i'm not thinking i still have a
10:44great chance i to each their own yeah right to each their own what percentage of our listeners do
10:50you think are wired like that guy 10 i would say less but hey man different perspectives on the
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