00:01all right three o'clock good to have you we're going to turn our attention to tigers for a
00:05little bit you know i i mean we joked about it a little bit but there was an element of
00:09truth to
00:10it i felt like last night it was it was a bigger game not panic in tiger town or anything
00:15but you
00:16can't just be getting swept by teams like the boston red socks at home and i know baseball's
00:24a really weird sport and it's 162 games you have a good hot week or a hot two weeks you
00:31put some
00:31things in the rear view but look at what the week is now you lost scoobal for at least two
00:36months
00:36i had john hayman report you can keep it hayman is on boris's payroll i'm not interested the point is
00:42you lost scoobal you've lost a hell of a lot of arms you lost glaber torres to the il you
00:48had
00:48fromber valdez loses mind he's not going to take another turn in the rotation and as we sit here
00:55you know i i know we joke about the al comedy central and like i make fun of the nba's
01:02eastern
01:02conference but it ain't got nothing on the comedy central this is a division where if you are simply
01:08a 500 team you're in first place uh the tigers are sitting at 18 and 20 and if they were
01:14in any
01:15other division for instance the al east you would be the better part of 10 games out of first
01:20in the national league i mean you'd be nine and a half eight or nine games out in the in
01:25the nl east
01:26you'd be what seven eight nine games out in the central forget about the west the dodgers are there
01:35the point i'm making is this we're at the quarter poll they have not played good baseball and i understand
01:40the injuries will put a roof on what they can accomplish for a bit but i was listening to a
01:46former baseball executive now listen do i think highly of this person no i want to say that because
01:53i don't want people thinking oh will you like this no i don't actually you ever hear david samson
01:58okay very very famous for a lot of the wrong reasons with the marlins and the expos etc
02:03but he had a long form discussion on the valdez thing and i was pleased that he saw it the
02:14way
02:14i saw it which was look aj hinch didn't back his own player he didn't yeah aj saying we play
02:21a good
02:21brand of ball around here normally when you're out there you feel like you're in your right it didn't
02:26feel good to be out there he he didn't back what framberg did and he described moments like that
02:34where the season either launches to a better place or launches to a worse place because the description
02:43he gave is the red sox wanted to be out there together the tigers did not want to be there
02:51it was
02:51more like well guess we got to go out there now because of of what captain goofball did yeah all
02:59the red sox didn't be there bench so here we go guess we got to do it but it's this
03:03idea of
03:04they didn't really back valdez they did the bare minimum the manager didn't back valdez now why is it
03:13important rico he's their 40 million dollar man and for all intensive purposes he's going to be
03:19tarik skuble for the couple months he's not around when you look at how they've played when
03:26you look offensively like i was talking to cookies about it is sure on an ops level you could be
03:31like
03:31well riley green's having a nice year or or cold keith has a flashy batting average riley's on pace
03:38for like 15 home runs cold keith hasn't hit a home run in eight months like they don't there's no
03:45power
03:46you got a lot of guys that have been a lot of guys have been useless and then you have
03:51a lot
03:51of pitching injuries look kansas city's played better of late i'm not telling you there's some
03:55good ball club then you get the mets who maybe the mets have turned it around a little bit you
04:00can't
04:01lose 100 in a row i'm i'm more concerned than i was even a few days ago and i think
04:09the valdez thing
04:10was an interesting conversation by samson i wanted your take i want to hear from the people
04:14no that's a really interesting take of the fact yeah i remember when aj said you know we didn't feel
04:20good about that thing but you're right we didn't they didn't they didn't support why they were out
04:26there they were out there because you know i guess the unwritten rules of baseball they empty their
04:32bench we got empty our bench yep please god don't throw any punches you're probably telling your
04:36buddies on the other team we're just out here for show please nobody do anything stupid we'll all go
04:42back and nobody will get fined but that loser but i do like the fact that yeah they they're gonna
04:48have to they got to figure it out he has to take that step up to be the leader and
04:54he didn't in his
04:55moment his time to shine it failed but when i look at this team because everybody always says that
05:01magical number 40 games 40 games what sparky anderson said well you're really close to the 40 games right
05:07now and it's everything that you said so many pieces are missing from this team or just the
05:14bullpen is not good players are getting in your starting pitching staff is just falling by the
05:19wayside you're not able to get key hits and home runs you wasted actually a start last night that was
05:25pretty good that any other pitcher probably should have won that game clarity with 10 k's and you also
05:30had some bad defense it elevated his pitch count this is the other problem what did we say about this
05:35team that look they were very good at the margins they were very good like they're not a good
05:39defensive team right now i feel like every night i'm watching something go wrong yeah i don't know
05:44man i'm i'm just the concern is growing and i don't want to whistle by the graveyard because the
05:48pistons are in the playoffs rico look at what this week was the back-to-back cy young died yes
05:54you had
05:55your 40 million dollar guy lose his mind you had the most professional hitter in the lineup get hurt and
05:59you got swept by the red sox third sweep before memorial day if you told me that the only thing
06:05missing let's just say scoobal was going to be out for a while but everything else was intact i would
06:11say i'm not that concerned right because at least i'll treat scoobal as almost like a trade deadline
06:16thing and you acquired him but when i look at all the missing pieces who's coming to rescue this team
06:23who's coming who's going to be that guy to step up and help get this thing back to where it's
06:28going to
06:28be who's going to self-correct this i don't know so i'm i'm very concerned is a full-blown panic
06:35no but i don't see how it gets better before it gets worse the oh when you can only the
06:42only
06:42thing you could say is when you play in a bad division that's pretty sad you're you're not
06:48saying oh because our hitting is timely oh we're getting home runs or our bullpen is just you know
06:53what if we get a lead we'll shut you down well we just play with four other teams that also
06:57stinks
06:58but as you said so eloquently you're part of the reason why the comedy central is the comedy central
07:04it's on you because we didn't run away with this thing what is your concern level guys
07:08and if you say zero back it up with something because right now look
07:16a lot of the last two years when you looked at the pixar movie to make it two years ago
07:22okay that
07:23i could view as magic the way they started in april and may of last year i would say was
07:28magical too
07:29nothing about the rest of the year was magical they were not a good baseball team they fell apart
07:35i kind of wonder if are we about to live the median outcome you're not going to get what you
07:43got two
07:43years ago and then maybe they're more of the team they were the second half of last year than the
07:49team
07:49in the first couple months remember where it was mckinstry all-star bias also those things aren't
07:55happening first team to 40 first team to 50 exactly i look i don't know i don't want to be
08:01right
08:01i liked what they did to bolster the pitching and bolster the pen i i understood when people called in
08:07and said but they didn't do anything offensively i know okay i know i just rico i'm worried that this
08:14thing it's right in front of our face they're not a good baseball team am i wrong because out of
08:2010
08:20mike i'm gonna seven no i don't think you're the only reason why it's not just full-blown panic is
08:26because you also play in the same divisions the white socks and the royals and the guardians and
08:31the twins but other than that i don't see how this gets fixed anytime soon and you're you're treading
08:39water but you're not really doing that anymore it's like you're you're starting to lose this you're two
08:44games below 500 and you wonder at this time next week will you be three or four games below that's
08:51baseball where if you just put a nice 10 days together it can all look really different we can
08:56only deal with what we have right now i can't future cast that they're going to win seven of nine
09:01and when i look at like last night you're right pitching performance was fine enough your defense
09:07failed and your offense never showed up i mean that that that's losing baseball yeah because you're
09:13not going to get that pitching performance on a lot of nights considering you don't have any
09:17pitching that's healthy right and then you laugh like late in the red socks stranded a bunch of
09:22runners but it didn't matter they had enough runs yeah they were i don't know i i just like to
09:27know
09:27from you guys or maybe you're not paying attention yet maybe it's only may 7th and maybe the the red
09:33wing playoff run oh wait two four eight five three nine 97 97 you tell me what is your level
09:40of
09:40concern this was a pretty catastrophic week for this baseball team both on the field and then with
09:47injuries i think it's okay to be at a six or seven of concern you're a quarter of the way
09:53through and
09:54right now you're not a good baseball team and if the goal is winning the world series and that's why
10:00you elevated your payroll then i i don't think rico deserves to be made fun of not for this at
10:06least
10:08yeah because hey i'm looking at a seven out of ten because i don't see where the help comes any
10:14time i'm just annoyed they got swept by the red socks i admit it like you can't get swept by
10:18bad
10:18teams that's ridiculous i chuckled because we did the whole what if they lose i didn't really think
10:23they were gonna lose well i'll be damned yeah well there it is uh all right get with the people
10:29david we'll get with the text as well 97 one
10:32you
