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How invested are you still in the Detroit Red Wings?
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00:00The car, Scott Anderson, 97.1, open lines, 248-539-9797.
00:04Let's go to Don next on 97.1.
00:06Hello, Don.
00:08Hey, how are you guys doing?
00:09Sorry, I got a Peloton on, turning it down.
00:11Oh, good for you.
00:12Getting a sweat on?
00:14Trying to, trying to.
00:15So I'm going to preface this.
00:17I went to Michigan State, and I am a Spartan fan.
00:19I did not like the way college athletics is going because now it's a paid sport.
00:25But be that it may, I'm going to nominate, this is going to irk a bunch of people,
00:31Cano for, I mean, Kudu for Cano Award.
00:35I mean, the way he plays basketball in certain situations, like the end of the half,
00:39running down court, purposely jumping into somebody to draw a cheap penalty.
00:43It's akin to a hockey player skating down the ice, feeling a little tug on his leg, and diving.
00:48I think they should start calling it that way.
00:50And then let me ask you this, since they don't call it, or since they call it, you know,
00:54it's a three-point line or something like that, why don't they call it underneath the basket?
00:59So.
00:59Well, do you like it when Jeremy Fears does it?
01:03Yeah, I hate it.
01:04I hate it.
01:04I think it's cheap.
01:05Yeah, I don't like it either.
01:07I don't like it when he does it.
01:07It's not a great part of the game.
01:08And I mean, look, there's no question that foul baiting has become a thing.
01:15And a lot of teams, a lot of teams have a player that does it.
01:18And, yeah, I mean, until they figure out how to officiate,
01:23it's obviously really, really tough to officiate it.
01:25But there's no question that it's just part of the game.
01:29Yeah, but they let him play underneath the basket.
01:31I mean, if you drive the basket, you know, why don't you just incorporate,
01:35have a small guard driving in Mara, hit him in the shin caps like you're going off the chute
01:39because he is 7'4", and then draw the penalty that way and get him in foul trouble.
01:44I mean, but they don't call that.
01:45Yeah, I don't know.
01:46I don't know.
01:47If we ever get a – maybe an official can call us and tell us if it's truly different
01:52under the basket as opposed to out on the perimeter.
01:55I suspect it really – this is a tough game to officiate.
01:58But, yeah.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Okay.
02:00Thanks.
02:01Noted.
02:01We go to Dustin in Wald Lake.
02:03You're next.
02:03Hi, Dustin.
02:05Hey, how's it going, guys?
02:06What's up?
02:07I just wanted to touch on the NCAA.
02:10You guys asked about how college sports are changing and how some people aren't into it
02:16as much.
02:16For me, it's just the pride.
02:18I don't think these guys nowadays – it doesn't seem like anybody's proud to go to their school
02:24and to be a Wolverine and come up in that program.
02:27It's, well, Michigan won the bidding war, so here I am.
02:30I'm going to play basketball for these guys.
02:33Some of the players said they had more money than higher offers.
02:37I mean, it just doesn't feel the same.
02:38Dustin, some of the players said they had more money to go elsewhere.
02:41As far as the wings go and Steve Eisenman goes, I hope they lose, and I'll take Steve
02:46Eisenman to the airport after all this myself.
02:49I'm ready for this to be done.
02:51So, Dustin, some of the players said they had more money, higher offers to go elsewhere,
02:55but this is college athletics.
02:58I can understand that.
02:58Yeah.
02:59I mean, so they did – some of them chose Michigan.
03:02If it's true, some of them chose Michigan for reasons other than the highest bidder.
03:07And they may tweak the system.
03:09As the system is right now, inside the way it's built, Michigan did it better than anybody.
03:15Dusty May did it better than anybody.
03:18And as far as the wings, I mean, look, I'm never – I can't do that.
03:26You know, the root against your team thing because you want change that bad.
03:31And the people that do it have every right to do it.
03:34I just can't – I'm not wired that way.
03:35I don't know – when they had puck drops tonight, I'm hoping they win.
03:40I'm hoping they still slide into the playoffs.
03:42I can't believe nobody's put them away yet.
03:45Yeah.
03:45I mean, if – I feel the same way.
03:48Of course, I'll be cheering them on tonight or rooting for them anyway.
03:51I don't know about cheering, but I'll be rooting for them.
03:55If I didn't, I just wouldn't watch the game.
03:58Like, I can't watch a team – I can't watch a game to watch my team lose because I want
04:03the change.
04:03I won't do that.
04:04I want to do that to myself.
04:06Like, if – and there have been moments in the past where I've watched, let's say,
04:10Michigan State, for instance, and I want to change.
04:13I'll watch part of the game and then, you know what, it just doesn't become important
04:17to me to watch the rest of it because I don't want to be openly rooting for failure to force
04:23change.
04:24Change will happen soon enough.
04:26And I suspect if the Red Wings don't win enough to get into the playoffs, there's a real possibility
04:34Steve Eisenman's not coming back.
04:35A real possibility.
04:37Yep.
04:37And I know people don't believe that because he's an icon here and ownership and they don't
04:42think that the changes will happen.
04:44But, you know, there's – it feels like there's so many outside forces right now that are
04:50demanding it.
04:51And it's – I think if you take a step back and look at it objectively, you could certainly
04:57make a very strong case that change has to happen.
05:01But there's still time left on the clock to make something happen.
05:05And I don't – they're not doing desperate measures at this point.
05:08You know, we haven't seen them bring up five players from Grand Rapids and say, you guys
05:12got to – we need something to happen here.
05:14You know, they're not scouring the waiver wire and inserting somebody in the lineup.
05:17They're not doing absolutely crazy things.
05:19But I don't know if they can do any Hail Marys at this point.
05:21At this point, it's just do what you can do as a team.
05:25Control what you can control from shift to shift.
05:27And you have to be better.
05:28Stop making the stupid mistakes and be better.
05:32It's just that simple.
05:33But I got news for you.
05:35If they don't make the playoffs this year, I don't think Steve Eisenman is the only one
05:39that's on the hot seat.
05:43Well, if Eisenman goes, McClellan probably goes too, right?
05:46I would think that he's – let's just say, do you think he's on the hot seat right now
05:50for a team that was in first place halfway through January?
05:52I can't imagine how there's not pressure on him too, yeah.
05:56I mean, I like Todd McClellan.
05:57I like how he addresses the media.
05:59I think he's a stern kind of guy.
06:01But it's – you know, you also look at his track record.
06:04He's moved on from place to place to place.
06:06And does he wear out his welcome or do the players tune him out or whatever?
06:10I mean, ultimately, this team needs a different attitude from the players.
06:15And if these guys aren't going to change their attitude about how they go about playing the
06:20game, then they need to bring different players in.
06:22And that sets a whole chain reaction of what can happen in the offseason.
06:26Let's go to Bridge in Farmington Hills.
06:27You're next.
06:28What's up, Bridge?
06:29Hey, guys.
06:30Hey.
06:31Hey.
06:32Hey, so my son and my grandson, they came from San Francisco for the game last night.
06:38Wow.
06:39And I just sent you a picture.
06:41They're like, he gets tickets at the last minute.
06:43I don't know for how.
06:45But he waits until the last minute.
06:46And he's got tickets like four rows up from the floor just to the side of one basket.
06:53And they're loving the game.
06:55He finds tickets for – when the Pistons went to San Francisco,
07:01to play the Golden Tate Warriors, he was on, like, two rows up from behind the –
07:08Bridge, did you say how much he paid for them last night?
07:12I don't know what he paid, but he gets them at – he always tells me he gets them at
07:16discounted prices.
07:17He waits until last minute.
07:19So he probably paid less than face value.
07:21There's an art form.
07:22There's an art form to finding the market for tickets when it bottoms out.
07:27And I'm no good at it.
07:29And some people say it's – I mean, if he got them right before the game, I guess that's
07:33what it is.
07:34But you have to run the risk of not getting in.
07:36And if he flew from San Francisco –
07:39I don't know how he does it, but when the Pistons went to San Francisco, and his son got Cade
07:47signed shoes, the game-worn shoes, because he was wearing a Cade jersey, and he talked
07:53to him at halftime, and when the game ended, Cade took off his shoes and signed them and
07:58gave it to him.
07:59That's pretty cool.
08:00He got the video and everything.
08:00That's pretty cool.
08:01That's cool.
08:02But he gets tickets at the last minute for what?
08:05He took me to the Tigers game when they were here last year, and we got tickets two rows
08:12behind the home plate.
08:17He's got it down, Bridge.
08:19It sounds like he knows what he's doing.
08:21Secondary market.
08:23I'm no good at that.
08:24I always pay too much.
08:25But I don't like running the risk, not getting in.
08:28Oh, sure.
08:28Or the ticket price goes up.
08:30Now, last night, when two fan bases leave, I think tickets become way easier to get.
08:36I think it was probably easier last night than it was on Saturday.
08:40Mark in Detroit, you're next on 97.1.
08:42Hello, Mark.
08:45I like Monroe.
08:46I agree with you.
08:47I like Caden Proctor, too.
08:49I like Caden Proctor over Monroe Freeland, because I watched the Alabama game, and this
08:54guy was running like a running back at 360 pounds, and he's lost weight a little bit.
08:59And I think the Lions, with their coaching, if he could cut the training cap down to about
09:04340, I mean, can you imagine Pernay Sewell and him?
09:07You got to move.
09:08Number one, if the Lions don't move Pernay Sewell to left tackle, then they must be like
09:16the old Lions regime, because that's common sense.
09:20I don't feel comfortable with Larry Boehrm as a starting right tackle.
09:25Caden Proctor is at a hell of an upside.
09:28I'm not particularly comfortable.
09:30First of all, just to bring people up to speed, last hour we had the note from Daniel Jeremiah
09:34who said the Lions love Caden Proctor on the Mina Kimes podcast, and then later said to
09:40Pete Schrager he will not get past the Lions at 17.
09:43So that's the context of what Mark's talking about here.
09:47I have no issue with them going after Caden Proctor, and I would have no issue whatsoever.
09:52And I think that it's...
09:53Yeah, people act like he's 350 pounds, he can't move.
09:57This man can move.
09:58No, he can move.
09:59I think people have already judged him because of the first game of last year against Florida
10:03State where they weren't very good, and he did not have a good game.
10:07But after that, he was great.
10:09And the difference between Caden Proctor and Monroe Freeling, 40 pounds.
10:15They're both tall.
10:16They're both very athletic.
10:18Caden Proctor's bigger.
10:19And whatever...
10:21If both of those guys are available at 17, it'd be an interesting choice to make.
10:26I don't suspect they're both going to be there at 17.
10:29248-539-9797.
10:31Something Kang used to love.
10:33Not so much anymore.
10:34We'll get to that today at 1235, plus your phone calls and feedback.
10:37It is Carson Anderson on 97.1.
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