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Is it still too early to be critical of the Detroit Tigers start of the season?
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00:06all right let's get to business on a wednesday we are going to get to the wings at three
00:10why because i love them and i just don't want to start the day that way it's sunny it's nice
00:17i i do have a question maybe kenny can illuminate or help me with this what is doug watching during
00:23the show what is this some illicit voyeur feed of a it looks like a community park baseball game
00:30what what is this what is on this screen you can't even see the pitches coming in rico now i
00:36gotta see
00:36what is doug watching what is this and i don't even know how to get rid of it what what
00:42is this
00:44oh i i'm just i'm mystified david like it looks like a high school game but you can't see it
00:52what do they do well mike it's a high school game this ain't on espn my point is what does
00:57he got
00:57somebody holding up a phone david come in here what what what is doug what is doug doing here
01:02what is this oh this is a little league game or high school that's high school okay well can you
01:08get rid of it please all right let's can we please it's distracting he's got this whole monitor over
01:14here and all you're doing is looking at an umpire's ass how do you watch this it's low low rent
01:20low but
01:21it's okay i just i know exactly what that is you know what there's a camera there there's an app
01:26called or program you can get called game changer that's what records all these little league and
01:31high school games so that's what he's watching they post it up on the fence and they just watch
01:35is jeremy otto on the call of this game probably okay good all right can you get rid of how
01:40do we
01:40get rid of this i'll take care of it in a matter of moments thank you i'm like this i
01:45can't let me
01:45know if that runner scores what runner the ump takes up half the picture see i think the funniest
01:52thing is the house in the background i've never seen anything like this so yeah okay that's just
01:58for parents who want to see kids and they can't so there's a camera set up so you could at
02:03least say
02:03yes i was watching some of your game at work well it's it you ain't gonna get a lot of
02:09auto's
02:10not gonna be on the call it's just in fact there will be no call it's just it's noise i
02:15hate to say
02:15it's just as low rent as you can get but you can't see the strike zone you can't do anything
02:21you'll
02:21just see if somebody scores all right or strikes out well david get this handled please all right
02:26we'll get to the wings at three but baseball on the mind what i was just like what are you
02:33talking
02:34about okay i sat down and i'm like uh what is this so look i i'll bring this up because
02:42i you know
02:42i think people are overreacting a little bit uh i'm not ready to go crazy after you know with 93
02:49percent of the season to go but yeah the tigers are not playing good baseball and scuba was not good
02:56last night offensively i mean the strikeouts are egregious the bottom of the order has been bad
03:03but they're four and six but i wanted to have this conversation early why because i think look
03:09there's been a lot of conversation right other shows are talking about it we can bring it up for
03:14a segment or two yeah i'm not going to be mean about it but i am going to be dismissive
03:20at four and six
03:21no i have four and seven i have no concerns not about winning the central not about who they are
03:27none of it do do i wish it looked better yes do i understand why baseball players look like they're
03:34going to summit kilimanjaro when it's like 40 degrees i mean guys nut up a little bit will you
03:40please football players playing this crap all the time but outside of that like it's a slow start
03:46it's nasty weather they started on the left coast you're on a road trip again but yeah i mean top
03:5310 in
03:53the league in strikeouts no bueno you know some of the guys when you're looking at how carrie started
03:59the year uh also doug's feed has commercials there's money behind this they're now advertising
04:06automobiles okay carry on we've talked about this yeah kids sports mike there's tons of money into kids
04:13sports this is remarkable seriously we could just go out and open up a sports facility and become rich
04:19man my point is do you have a concern uh is there something bothering you with this tiger team i'm
04:26not going there and i'm not trying to kill what we're doing but i want to stand up for people
04:31who
04:31are like me who go hey i got 151 games to go like i'm just going to breathe a little
04:38bit it's not a
04:39concern but you know the cliche you you can't win the world series you can't win a division in april
04:45but
04:45you can lose it and the fact that yeah you're hitting is not up to par your school ball starts
04:50that are normally the automatic victories you're not getting those as well and yeah as of now and
04:57i know it's two weeks in it's just it's just like because the tigers have been on the back burner
05:02because of everything else been going on from michigan winning the title to the wings trying to get into
05:07the playoffs to the pistons and what's going on with kate we had opening day and then we kind of
05:13forgotten about them and then you look at the standing you're like well yeah they're probably
05:16at the top no they're not at the top of their division they're actually at the bottom tie with
05:20the white socks at four and seven with cleveland at seven and five now is it over no but like
05:27i said
05:27the hitting is not there the hitting is going to be the conversation until it's not meaning there
05:33are plenty of fans who are still plenty annoyed with the offseason um i was fine because they
05:40invested heavily in pitching in the bullpen the bullpen hasn't been good let's be clear
05:43but i just give things more time in baseball like if mcgonagall was bad right now which he's not
05:50i'd say the same thing i give it time so i'm not going to react to that stuff because look
05:57there's one town in america that should be reacting it should be boston the red socks are off to a
06:03ghastly start and there's so many things wrong including who was the number one prospect in baseball
06:09roman anthony can't throw a baseball he looks like chuck knoblock so i just that's the only
06:15town to me where i look at it and i go hey you know what i'd be freaking out too
06:18but it's just
06:19more so that and you know are the guardians going to keep this going like because i think at least
06:24for me i thought it was just going to be a foregone conclusion you spent the money you did what
06:28you had
06:28to do you're going to be the best team in the central now you just have to worry about what
06:33happens
06:33when it comes to the playoffs and you're looking like guys you're kind of stumbling out the gate
06:37and like i said it used to be okay no matter what when scoobal hit the bump okay that was
06:44a
06:44self-correcting thing well if there's okay if there's anything i'd bank on and and this is going
06:48to seem counterintuitive but we talked about i think you did the receipt segment and you're like
06:53scoobal saw young and i'm like no way why well because it's only happened twice ever that a guy's
07:00won three in a row scoobal's due to regress because he's been that good he's been marvel
07:07comics character good he'll regress a little bit but what i always am careful of is judging
07:14pitchers in the month of april it's cold baseball players are not football players you saw him last
07:20night no and i don't even know if that caller is still amongst us the point is you saw him
07:27blown
07:28on his hand last night like i just try to be patient with baseball so i i'm i i'm fine
07:34if
07:34people want to carp on about stuff and no no please don't get it it's not like oh my goodness
07:39this thing is falling apart it's just one of those when you just took a really good look like wait
07:45wait
07:46how you guys are four and seven hmm maybe this thing won't be as easy as we thought it's going
07:52to be
07:53talk to me memorial day weekend if you want to start having the 40 the 40 games a little bit
08:00but but also too i think the last two years has taught me to try to be even well more
08:05patient in
08:06one regard which is trade deadline you're 10 games out that's an auto write-off this team came back
08:13from it and then last year it's like the inverse where i got way too comfortable being up 15 and
08:18a
08:18half games i'm trying just to let it breathe and i feel like once you get a little bit more
08:24time a
08:24little bit more data but but again in fairness to you and anyone else who has some concerns no you
08:32you
08:32don't want to end the month of april six games under 500 or something like that i hear you i
08:38do i just
08:39don't want to go crazy now and like i said it's not a going crazy it's just an eyebrow raise
08:46of
08:46hmm okay this is not the start that i thought that this team would have especially with the off season
08:53that they had i thought that they they would have a better start similar to like what your yankees are
08:58doing where you're just out there getting the job done but where you where do you stand 248-539-9797
09:05no big deal or isn't an eyebrow raise like i said this ain't full panic it's just a hmm that's
09:13interesting yes definitely not panic for me but what it is it's something to monitor something to
09:18keep an eye on because when you see a team last night in the tigers who strike out 14 times
09:25in the
09:26game and then when you look at what they've done all year and they are one of the worst teams
09:31with 47 strikeouts as a team i'm sorry 106 strikeouts yeah i was gonna say as a team
09:37kind of missing a number in um in the league and they've only scored 47 runs which is middle of
09:44the
09:44pack of the league that is something where i'm like i want to monitor that you can but remember
09:49what i said to start this season okay i thought the pitching would be there and i still believe that
09:54to be the case i know it's weird for scuba to lose starts the offense is going to be a
09:59work in
09:59progress why okay a it's unsustainable for riley green to strike out 200 plus times there's going
10:08to be a work in progress there mcgonigal making this team work in progress a parker meadows is fighting
10:14for his career if parker meadows is awful in the first half he won't be here in the second half
10:21and then we talked about some of the fairy tale stuff reality comes calling for a mckinstry for
10:28a bias for some of these guys it was going to be a work in progress and by the deadline
10:34you have the
10:35data you need the pitching will carry it and you can address the offense by way of farm system or
10:42by
10:42way of trade the part that would concern me earlier than the other two is if the bullpen continues to
10:50be
10:50an issue that's different they reinforce the bullpen and they did it with veterans if that's bad
10:57that's different and that's why like i said concerning eyebrow raise for me because of what
11:02you've done and how you tried to bolster all of this and i guess it set my expectations higher
11:08and it's like wait a minute what's going on here let me ask you a question how many wins did
11:14you think
11:14they'd have this year let's start there i had them at i think i had like 86 87 then there's
11:21nothing to
11:21worry about buddy if you came on the air and said 97 well then you got to play a different
11:28style of
11:28ball the point i'm making is if you took this start where you lose seven out of 11 and it
11:35happened in
11:35june you really wouldn't notice it but because it's from the start correct we notice and and that's
11:43what i said you're kind of stumbling out of the gate so it's not a panic and i'm saying again
11:49for
11:49the people in the back it's not a panic it's just more of an eyebrow raise of huh i expected
11:54a little
11:54more out of this team especially to start the year off i also and i admit this i think this
12:00division
12:00division is dog water so i have no concerns i'm not sure if there'll be another 500 team in this
12:08division it's trash so could be proven wrong clearly uh but it's going to take a lot to shake
12:16me from that belief that they are simply in the aggregate so much better than these teams but are
12:21they playing good baseball no they know that no but then i also laugh it's we're just two weeks in
12:27and the white socks are have a minus 27 run differential yeah well you know listen uh
12:34still everybody's they're developing well look i mean they have played better ball since the all-star
12:39break last year right but yes that there are ways away uh what we'll get with you the people we'll
12:45hit
12:45some text and yes we're going to get to the wings at three we just needed a break and i
12:49think you guys
12:50you guys did too 97 one
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