00:00Hey, real quick on the Tigers.
00:01Lost last night.
00:02Have lost seven of their last nine games.
00:07I'm annoyed more than I'm concerned.
00:10I feel like it's too early to use concerned, but I am annoyed.
00:14I am too, and it's like one of the things that we've talked about
00:19for really going on three years now is if you're on a skid,
00:23what's supposed to cure all ales?
00:27Scoogle.
00:27Scoogle start.
00:28They've lost two in a row.
00:31And part of that's him last night, too, by the way.
00:33Didn't get through the fifth inning.
00:34Right.
00:34It was 95 pitches through four and two thirds.
00:37It wasn't his best performance.
00:40All four runs were earned.
00:42Yeah.
00:43They also didn't hit for him.
00:45Right.
00:46I'm not going to hold him to some unlivable standard,
00:51but it just wasn't up to his standard.
00:53I guess we can all agree on that.
00:55That's a great way to put it.
00:56That was not up to his standard, and it's not an or.
00:59And they also didn't do enough offensively.
01:02McGonagall drove in their only two runs with a couple of really nice at-bats.
01:06One annoyance I'm having right now is the fact that Jemai Jones has played in three straight games,
01:11and I'm okay with him as a pinch hitter against lefties,
01:14but because they're making this change so early in the game,
01:17they're taking out Colt Keith, and Jemai Jones is facing righties late.
01:22And, I mean, the reason Colt Keith is leading off is he and McGonagall are one-two,
01:28and they're the one-two bats on this roster,
01:31and I just don't want to take him out of the lineup.
01:34It's one thing if it's the eighth inning, ninth inning,
01:36the spot's not going to come back.
01:37I got two guys on.
01:38I'm going to play the numbers.
01:39I'll defend AJ there.
01:40I'm probably more on his side than I think a lot of fans are just recoil at the idea of
01:43taking,
01:44remember, Riley Green out of a playoff game.
01:46But to do it in the fifth, sixth, or seventh inning when you still might get another at-bat,
01:52it's three straight games that they've done it.
01:54Anyway, long season.
01:56Just a quick note on the Tigers.
01:59Final four is in Detroit next year.
02:01We're already looking ahead.
02:03Michigan got three of the top 50 players in last year's portal.
02:08Are we looking now and truly embracing this to where this is free agency?
02:13Like, we get excited when the Lions have a chance to do something in free agency.
02:17We get excited when the Pistons or the Tigers have a chance to do something in free agency.
02:22Do you view this now like we're entering free agency?
02:25Like, you got names, your circle, or positions of need?
02:30If I was familiar with the names...
02:32See, that's the challenge.
02:34Can I give you a name?
02:36Sure.
02:36So there is a guy that we should be familiar with or is easy to understand.
02:40The number two player in the portal, John Blackwell, shooting guard, Wisconsin.
02:45He's a brother Rice kid, Bloomfield Hills guy.
02:48I mean, that's a guy I would think Michigan will be in on.
02:51It's a guy, by the way, State should be in on.
02:53Take a little pressure off of fears.
02:54Give him a backcourt, mate.
02:55A little shooting.
02:57Yeah.
02:58And the local connection, the fact that he's entered the portal.
03:02He's talked about wanting to go somewhere that is the standard is, you know, a national
03:07championship.
03:09Scored 19 points per game last season.
03:11Yeah.
03:11So he's got, you know, a couple of good options and obviously did hurt Michigan in that one
03:15loss.
03:15So shot down near 40% from three on a year and yeah, big day against Michigan.
03:20So there are some names, but to your point, more of them are like, wait, there's a Lithuanian
03:24big from St.
03:24Mary's.
03:25Like, that's more of what it is.
03:27Right.
03:27And so, yeah, I think you get excited, but the excitement isn't in the lead up.
03:33It's after they sign and then you discover who these players are and how they fit into
03:40this roster.
03:40And for Michigan, really for both Michigan and Michigan State, both Tom Izzo and Dusty
03:46May.
03:46Dusty May, I think, was still on the floor when he read reference to 365 days from now, we
03:55want to be in Detroit.
03:57Yep.
03:57So he was already thinking about next year while celebrating the national championship
04:03in just two years at Michigan.
04:06I think it's jarring to people, but Saban used to say this, like they won a national title
04:10one year and he goes, yeah, but now I'm behind on recruiting.
04:12Like Dusty last night at midnight.
04:14Hey, portal's open.
04:15You got to be making phone calls.
04:17It's, it was interesting because I think they were, the, the, the game ended and the celebration
04:23was taking place and the portal had been open for 20 minutes.
04:28Like, yeah, it's that, that's, that's college basketball and the kind of the calendar.
04:33It's open for 14 days.
04:34It's open until the 21st.
04:36Um, and both Tom Izzo, I already referenced Dusty May talking about, Hey, we want to be
04:42in Detroit this time next year, Tom Izzo has referenced being in Detroit next year as well.
04:50So, you know, both, both individuals are thinking about it.
04:54Tom Izzo has had more time to think about it because they were just eliminated earlier
04:57and the portal is, is up and running.
05:00So I think there is excitement, but it's an unknown excitement.
05:05So let me try this.
05:06We'll do this on the fly.
05:07Cause you're right.
05:07I'll take the feedback.
05:08I can't ask the audience to call in and spotlight players from the portal.
05:12They want, they don't know who these people are.
05:14So just start with this, whoever you're a fan of, what type of player do you want to
05:19see them add?
05:20What is your big need right now?
05:21Right?
05:22We could do, we could do that.
05:23If you're a Michigan fan, some of this is what's going to happen with Mara.
05:26What's going to happen with Johnson.
05:28You figure the ax is gone.
05:30And that's you, what, what is it that you need to see your team do in the portal?
05:35Cause we all acknowledge you got to be aggressive.
05:37What type of player do they need to add to be in Detroit next year in the final four?
05:42And is this going to be the last like really big year for the portal?
05:47Because if the executive order, which I'm not even sure how enforceable it is, what's
05:51the NCAA going to do with it?
05:52I know that the power for commissioners and football have, have, have all talked about,
05:56yeah, we want to, we want to support this.
05:58Um, and if those parameters are put in place and you're only allowed one free transfer,
06:05unless there's a coaching change or it's, you know, graduate, like it is going to limit
06:10the number of prospects that are in the transfer portal.
06:14So this is a golden opportunity.
06:16And to your point, who knows how many you'll have.
06:19If I'm Michigan, if I lose both bigs, I obviously have to get a big.
06:23Sure.
06:24Because the guys that you know are gone are Yaks, Namari Burnett, um, Roddy Gale Jr.
06:31And Will Cheddar.
06:32Yeah.
06:32Those guys are gone.
06:34I feel like decisions that have to be made are Mara and more as Johnson Jr.
06:39Who you already talked about.
06:40Yeah.
06:40I think you'll lose one or could I say both?
06:43Possibly.
06:44I think more as Johnson Jr.
06:46I know that some mocks have had him late first, late first.
06:50So then it becomes what type of resources can he put, can be put in place to keep him
06:57versus him going and signing an NBA contract.
06:59Right.
07:00And for him, is he looking at what happened with Yaks as, okay, I could come back for
07:07another year.
07:07I could continue to develop.
07:08And then maybe next year, instead of being late first, can I be a lottery pick?
07:12Yeah.
07:12Or in the teens or something and move up 10 slots in the draft by coming back and being
07:16paid to come back.
07:17That's the game changer in all of this.
07:19Um, how does Mara's game translate?
07:21So Edie went top 10, which is what if I'm Mara, I don't know that I'm going to go top
07:2610, but that's my selling point to NBA teams is that that does have a role on an NBA roster
07:30now.
07:32But if he's going to go 21, right, does he do the same thing?
07:36I see.
07:37I don't know.
07:37And the, the unknown that we don't have so free agency, we, we sit there.
07:41We say, okay, well, you know, you signed four years for a hundred billion dollars when
07:46they sign these NIL deals, a lot of them, the details aren't known or fully known.
07:54And like, what, what is the benefit of both of those guys coming back?
07:59And we could talk about this with Michigan state players as well.
08:02Yeah.
08:02So a couple of texts as a Spartan fan is that we'll never do what it takes.
08:05So it doesn't, it doesn't make sense for me to get all worked up and learn about these
08:08guys.
08:08So he'll get some random kid averaging six points per game from a small school and call
08:12it a day.
08:13The transfer portal is free agency and is, though, is the lion.
08:16So run it back with his own guys and a few broken parts along the way car and fears can
08:22both leave their one trick pony bums who can't shoot.
08:24They're both going to be back, but they do need to address shooting.
08:27So I could give you a name, but it's again, no one's heard of this guy drew a fielder.
08:33He's a big from Boise state, scores 10 points a game, shoots 40% from three.
08:38That's the type of guy that Michigan state should be adding in the portal, right?
08:40Cause then it opens up for those guys to get into the lane.
08:43It makes it easier to absorb losing a guy like Kohler.
08:46Who's that pick and pop big.
08:48Yeah.
08:48But my point would be, yeah, you add a big from Boise.
08:51Who's like the, you know, a borderline top 50, you know, transfer recruit.
08:54It can't be the only thing you do because you are, it's an arms race.
08:57It is state dusty.
08:59Just did it this year.
09:00It's an arms race.
09:01He's got to load it all up again.
09:02And Tom's got to get right there too.
09:06And there's what over a thousand players that have already entered the portal.
09:12And we're only what?
09:12Two days in brush up boys.
09:14It's going to be absolutely bizarre.
09:18Michigan fans.
09:19Maybe it's a little harder for you to answer, but what do you want to see your team do in
09:22the portal?
09:23What type of players do you want them to add?
09:25And for Spartan fans, maybe this is tough because you don't have faith.
09:27Your team will do it, but let's, let's live on the bright side.
09:30What does Izzo need to do?
09:31Believe for a day that he actually goes out and does it.
09:34It's 97 one.
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