00:02the car scott anderson 97 one talking about the tigers who come home for opening day tomorrow
00:07and and look it's there's really only two boxes that need to get checked for opening day for it
00:11to be epic or than usual and that is weather and friday both of those things are in play
00:20it's going to be good weather and it's a friday because you know it seems to be irrelevant for
00:25how people treat the party is what the team's record is team comes home at two and four which
00:32is a disappointment they got swept by the lowly diamondbacks and at the end of the day uh concerns
00:39about the offense are rearing their ugly head in spite of the injection of the lineup of what looks
00:43like an all-star bat after a week which yeah it's too early to call it all-star bat but
00:48you know what
00:48i might want to talk about here a little bit what's that talk remember when there were questions about
00:52mcgonigal's glove yeah he was outstanding yesterday in the field again he looks good uh that double
01:02play they turned was fantastic we we saw that in spring and now we've seen it in the in an
01:06actual
01:07game real game um you know that was good it was really good and then i remember watching the game
01:13the other night and saw the third baseman uh make a bad throw on a play i'm like oh come
01:20on kevin
01:21you're right and then i realized it wasn't kevin mcgonigal playing third base at that time so i was
01:24like okay all right golden boy still golden but uh you know he's he's looked good defensively which
01:31was the the number one thing they wanted to make sure he was ready to do in the meantime uh
01:36you know
01:37he did have that triple colt keith i think that park tortured colt keith with the ball that he hit
01:46off
01:46the top of the wall that hit the yellow line he's also the one that hit the eye bar on
01:51that um that
01:53that fan patio out in center field that park taunted and tortured colt keith because he did
02:03just what it looked like just about it damn near everything you could to get a home run in that
02:06park
02:07and he couldn't well it's a good sign how he's been swinging the bat through the beginning of the
02:11season so far one weekend and he looks he looks good so i'm glad to see that yes he's a
02:17guy that
02:17needs to take take that bigger step forward this season in the meantime uh are we all good with
02:24scoobal i think scoobal's gonna pitch like this are we good with with riding this horse the one
02:30run through 13 innings so far i hope i hope we're good with it i mean i thought it was
02:36interesting did
02:37it just take them starting to play real tiger baseball for everybody to remember excuse me why
02:43everybody loved terrick scoobal yes but not everybody i mean but many people were appreciative
02:48of terrick scoobal in spite of maybe not getting that extra inning that you wanted last year
02:54the offseason is for the drama now it's now it's the real the real deal so you you you table
02:59that
03:00until it'll i'm sure it'll rear its ugly head around the trade deadline depending where this team
03:04is at the first time he has a bad start people go i'm not getting paying 40 million for that
03:10yeah i thought it was interesting he only struck out three batters last night which is very unscuba
03:15like if he's going to go seven innings i'd be curious if you go through his game logs how many
03:19times
03:20has he gone seven innings and struck out less than like seven i would say quite a bit because strikeouts
03:26take more pitches like if you are going to go longer into game strikeouts take longer longer at bats
03:32i i think it's oh i get that but he's a guy who just lives in the strike zone anyway
03:36he does
03:36so i'm just thinking he hasn't had too many the fewer strikeouts you have if you can if you can
03:43let
03:43them put it in play and they can't hit you you you can go nine but if you get into
03:49a situation where
03:50you're striking everybody out it makes it harder to go nine but look nonetheless very impressive um
03:58and you know it was another i mean i can't believe between mys and scuba we had those two starts
04:05i'll just say this too corbin carroll was a tiger killer in that series an absolute tiger killer in
04:12that series and sometimes guys stand out against your team and he he was exceptionally good and he
04:18homered off scuba and i thought i saw something like it's only the third lefty on lefty fastball home
04:24run he's given up in years um i gotta find it because somebody had the actual uh
04:32uh the actual tweet here and i got it somewhere
04:37cody stavenhagen tarik scuba appears to be done after oh no this isn't it
04:42um corbin carroll's dialed in he just took an 0-2 fastball from tarik scuba opposite field home run
04:46i guess i didn't i didn't bookmark it my bad but he hasn't given up a lot of home runs
04:51lefty on
04:51lefty home runs uh no he has not so that's uh that's interesting i mean look that kid's a good
04:58player he's a really good player and so is scuba uh and last year tarik scuba had a bunch of
05:03starts
05:03where he won seven innings um all but two he had at least six strikeouts in those in those yeah
05:10i mean
05:11the fewer strikeouts were like what only three and seven innings and one one outing fewer strikeouts
05:16he has i think the better chance he has to go deep in games and you know maybe that's maybe
05:20that's
05:20something he's trying to do i don't know i didn't see anything he said about it afterwards but
05:27um scuba two good starts for them now they come home and uh fans i mean look it's always fun
05:34to
05:34see the bright shiny new toy right it is so getting to see framber valdez for the home opener that's
05:41kind of a fun little twist on tomorrow isn't it uh it is it is if it's not gonna be
05:45scuba or or jv then
05:47you know it i mean valdez it should be right because it's well first of all it sets up that
05:53way brilliantly um i think a lot of people wanted it to be jv for the nostalgia's sake
05:58and then after watching jv in his first outing this year maybe like okay we can table this a little
06:04bit longer but to see valdez get out there that's the that's the big signing and uh had a great
06:10start
06:10his first start of the year here let's uh let's pick up where he left off uh for the weekend
06:15you
06:16get valdez on friday flarity on saturday and jv on sunday and that is a sunday night game on peacock
06:24easter sunday yep so uh the home fans if you got tickets for this weekend those are the pictures
06:29that you will see for the tigers in the meantime we're gonna be down there we're not sure where yet
06:34depends on the weather but we might be outside the park we might be at hockey town cafe inside upstairs
06:40in that studio they got there so uh just tune in tomorrow but uh opening day is always fun in
06:45detroit always fun in detroit it's a tradition uh what do you remember when the first time you started
06:50going out or was it only for have you only been down there because of work for opening day uh
06:54no i
06:55skipped school and went to an opening day against the red socks back in the when i was in high
07:00school
07:00okay yeah but not to party with friends and stuff just go to the game no i was in high
07:05school i went to
07:06the game so yeah yeah but other than that it's been pretty much always work related pretty much but
07:14248-539-97-97 tiger fans uh i don't know how concerned you are yet but feedback's coming in
07:22one home run on the season won't do also i'm not sure about torque as a major leaguer that's from
07:29an
07:29name texter well i mean torques put up a couple 30 home run seasons uh he also goes through stretches
07:36where he's not hitting and this is perhaps one of those stretches yeah um but he's also been
07:42productive with hitting doubles he's an extra base machine but his average is never going to impress
07:48you and if he goes through droughts the droughts just get more pronounced i guess
07:53yeah i mean look uh last year 30 guys hit 30 home runs or more and and so if you're
07:59not sure of
08:00him as a major leaguer he's doing something he's done something in his career that not a lot of guys
08:06do so i don't know what else to tell you he has holes in his game if you're he's not
08:11a complete player
08:12nice to see more bat to ball skills on display uh can have the best pitching in the world last
08:19night
08:19we did but if carp and riley aren't our studs like last year we are effed i mean that's true
08:25if this
08:25is long term who they're going to be like you remember opening day i said i don't think mcgonagall's
08:31an 800 hitter i remember you saying that yeah and and lo and behold i'm right what a leap you
08:39made
08:39no but i but the point is mcgonagall's going to come back to earth but these the rest of these
08:43guys
08:44most of them will probably pick it up yeah water will find their level and uh i i think i
08:49think
08:49we're going to find out a lot about these guys this year uh i think at the end of this
08:54season
08:54we're going to be disappointed and say okay this is now maybe it's more than just this past season
09:00there's a little bit of a track record to not be enamored with this player or that player and it'll
09:05go the other way too the other players will say wow you'll say this guy really improved throughout
09:09the season he built off what he did last year like that um but this team is going to get
09:15more
09:15and more defined as we move on get some final four preview coming up in the 11 o'clock hour
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