00:00Yeah, one for each loss to the broke wiener twins.
00:03Yeah.
00:04All right.
00:05So, hi.
00:06By the way, hi, everyone.
00:07I'm sorry.
00:08Hey, you know what?
00:09I'm a horse racer now.
00:10Yes, Rico just had a show bet on a 43 to one horse at Keeneland.
00:14He shot out of a cannon.
00:17But I just look, I'm still going to maintain a level of calm.
00:24I'm annoyed more than I'm concerned.
00:27Yeah.
00:27But Rico and I were just workshopping something.
00:30After I got over, basically Rico had a custom hat made for himself,
00:34and it's beautiful.
00:35Never even seen that in any store.
00:38It's the idea for the Detroit baseball Tigers, who now,
00:44they just got swept in a four-game series to a team that almost assuredly
00:48is going to lose 90 games.
00:50I think I like how you put it best.
00:52In the end, we're going to look back and say,
00:55if you miss out on the playoffs, it goes right back to this series.
00:58Or how about this?
00:59If there's two weeks to go, and you're only two games up in the division,
01:02you're going to look at that four-game set against the Twins and go,
01:05what the hell were we doing?
01:06But here's a question.
01:07Because I'm a big believer there's no momentum between seasons.
01:12Like in a playoff series, there's no momentum between games.
01:15I know that this isn't a thing, but if you take the Tigers over any amount of time,
01:25last 100 games, 90 games, 50 games, do you realize the Tigers over their last 50 games
01:31are 16 and 34?
01:34And I know last year doesn't have something to do with this year.
01:38However, workshop this.
01:40Do you think this team has a hangover?
01:45Now, you'll say they made the playoffs and played competitively.
01:49What I would argue is the playoffs, the pilot light is out.
01:53It's different.
01:54I don't have the answers, guys.
01:57And ask Rico.
01:58I just spent the last 40 minutes of my life trying to find stats that make sense
02:06as to why this team stinks right now.
02:08And it's like, as a team, their OBP is top 10 in the league.
02:13And as a team, the bullpen ERA, I know it hasn't been great, but believe me, it's far
02:18from terrible.
02:19And you try to piece this together and it's like, I don't have a great answer.
02:24It's like every game, something different goes wrong.
02:28Like today, five of the first six innings, they leave a man on second base.
02:34And you're losing one nothing.
02:36And Mick Abel, who, yeah, he's a highly thought of prospect for the Twins.
02:40And I do think Mick Abel will end up being pretty good.
02:43Rico, this is a kid who went three and four innings in his first two starts and had an
02:46ERA north of 12.
02:48He went six strong today.
02:51I want to understand from you guys is like, look, I'm not panicked.
02:58I just, I think it's certain things are unacceptable.
03:02Now, does that mean you do the patented team meeting?
03:06No.
03:06You know, does AJ go Hal McRae throwing pens at reporters?
03:10I doubt it.
03:10No.
03:11And I don't think you need the closed door clubhouse.
03:13But behind closed doors, there has to be an understanding in that, on that plane home
03:19today.
03:20This was complete horse bleep.
03:23This is not acceptable.
03:25A four-game sweep to anybody, unacceptable.
03:28To a Twins team who is markedly worse year over year in every measure, including their
03:35payroll, unacceptable.
03:38Letting Brooks Lee come through.
03:40Can't happen.
03:41And look, Will Vest, velocity down.
03:44You got to monitor stuff like that.
03:46And it's early.
03:46Guys ramp up.
03:47But I want to know from you guys, do you think this team's got a hangover?
03:53And before you laugh and say, well, the Marlins are coming to town, we'll get right.
03:57Marlins have been really good for a while.
03:59Not just to start the year, the way they finished last year.
04:02And they have a pain-in-the-ass offense.
04:07If this team doesn't play better ball, 4-9 turns into 5-11, 4-12.
04:13Right.
04:13And that's why I said yesterday, it wasn't a panic.
04:16It was just an eyebrow raise of, huh.
04:19Because it kind of got lost in the whole Red Wings talk and Michigan's run.
04:24And it's like, oh, wait a minute.
04:26You know, the Tigers, it was great.
04:27It was opening day.
04:28It was festive.
04:29And then you started looking at, yeah, but you guys aren't winning games lately.
04:32You're not hitting the ball.
04:34You're not.
04:34And now you just got swept by the Twins, who.
04:37In a four-game set.
04:38You can't overlook it.
04:40Not a two-gamer.
04:40Not a three.
04:41Not a three.
04:41A four-game set, the idea of getting swept to anybody is terrible.
04:45I don't care if it was Dodgers.
04:46Can't happen.
04:46You normally take one.
04:48So you're sitting 4-9.
04:50I'm not, hey, believe me, you still got 92, 93% of the season to go.
04:55But guys, you can't win in the month of April, but you could sure as hell make your climb harder.
05:00This team needs to get home and get right.
05:03And look, the Marlins are no treat.
05:05You do have four with the Sox on the horizon.
05:07You'll get KC in here.
05:09I don't have the whole schedule committed to memory.
05:11But they're not playing good baseball.
05:13Day in, day out, this is not a good team right now.
05:16And my hope is, if there's any positive I could take out of this, they better be on that team
05:21playing.
05:22No cards, no music, no BS.
05:24This is unacceptable.
05:27Yeah, after KC, you get Boston.
05:30At Boston.
05:31Four games.
05:31And Boston stinks.
05:32Boston's rancid.
05:34Just hit the ball to Roman Anthony.
05:35He'll kill a worm.
05:362-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
05:39I want to hear from you guys.
05:40And again, I'm trying to be measured.
05:42I understand we've got a ton of baseball to go.
05:45But yeah, when we sat here yesterday, I never thought in my wildest dreams you'd lose the next two games,
05:50including one with Frambois on the mound.
05:52And that game was over in the first damn inning.
05:55Let's talk to the people.
05:56I want to know your level of concern with it.
05:58But also, look, do you think there's a hangover?
06:01Do you think this team read their press clippings?
06:06Guys, it's sports.
06:06We could talk about it.
06:07We're not trying to solve a Middle Eastern conflict.
06:092-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
06:11We'll get with you guys next.
06:1397-1.
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