00:00spent mother's day with my mom in a long time we did a quick brunch and my sister that's nice
00:04yeah
00:05we had a 12 30 flight here so yeah it was nice nice being in the uh hometown the town
00:11of swit
00:11getting swept yeah right what the flyers and sixers yeah the flyers was obviously more palatable of a
00:18fan base you know we didn't think they'd make the playoffs anyway they won a series carolina's the
00:23best team in the east you know people were you know the fans were very nice to them as opposed
00:29to uh sixers teased you sixers god he beat the celtics i'm wearing my joel and be trust the
00:35processed uh hoodie because i don't know the process didn't work he was drafted what in 2014
00:42he didn't play his first two years because he was injured they have not gotten out of the second
00:47round how's that process oh to him it was a success did you hear that after the game oh the
00:54season yeah
00:54yeah yeah the season was a success for a lot of it of course great great joel great their shot
01:01was
01:01the kawaii shot yes yep when that shot went in that was the year that they were going to maybe
01:06go to
01:06the finals yeah that was that the year he won the mb he did win the mvp one year yeah
01:10i mean forget it
01:11they're just awful and they let the the knicks fans just run over that building it's like oh i saw
01:18oh yeah they sold a lot of you know tickets on the secondary market you know what you're down three
01:23nothing i don't blame them especially with those tickets cost what was josh hart's quote afterwards
01:28i thought this was a sports town yeah okay josh let's not get carried away okay well look there's
01:34some stories from your trip we're going to mix in today on the show yeah we'll talk pistons at 6
01:3835
01:38biggest reason they lost game three take inventory of the series you're rocking a pistons hat today yes
01:43absolutely we got to restore the floor after the game yeah it's gonna be good hopefully they uh will
01:51play a little better for 48 minutes that would be nice hey with you in i think it's only right
01:57that
01:57i have a stat of the day oh and it is admittedly a stolen stat of the day that's okay
02:02but i want to
02:03present this as a way to talk tigers to start the show so the tigers are now past sparky's 40
02:09game mark
02:11yes they've never made the playoffs where they start this bad through 40 games 18 and 22 before a win
02:18yesterday against the royals that's that courtesy of tony paul okay my question to you yes hope or
02:25nope do you have hope this team makes the playoffs or is that stat just confirmed there's nothing
02:30redeemable it's a nope have you looked at the standings
02:35they're a game and a half out of course there's hope they play in that wretched division you know
02:42actually the whole american league is pretty wretched except for like the yankees tampa
02:46and and i believe if i'm not mistaken because gov's always big on this stat i believe the tigers
02:52are third in the american league and run differential third third best it's the yankees i guess tampa
03:00the tigers and then seattle everybody else has a minus run differential so yeah there's hope
03:05you know you expect obviously valdez to come back after suspension and not go loco uh hopefully
03:12meis will get back soon verlander will be you know no earlier than uh may 31st and scuba of course
03:18is
03:19the you know the big wild card if you leave scott boris or his spokesperson john hayman the new york
03:25post it might not be two three months so yeah they have hope this is a flawed team but thankfully
03:32they're in a flawed division so your little run differential stat okay i can think of just the
03:37last two weeks three blown saves yes and you go to the one run losses on friday night and then
03:44the
03:45two jansen just within the last couple weeks that's why you got three losses by three runs just right
03:50there and there's probably more but i can think of those off the top of my head yeah you know
03:54there's
03:54definitely hope so i still think of all the flaws on this team the bullpen is killing them in terms
04:02of
04:02surviving you know you take those three right there let's say you win two of them what are you 500
04:07yeah and you're at a playoff spot right now yes and it's funny you mentioned the bullpen because
04:12drew anderson who started off horribly actually was pitching pretty well for the last two weeks
04:18two to three weeks until yesterday he blew a three nothing lead i think the biggest thing too is
04:26there are injuries that that have returns like not return dates but they have players who are
04:32injured who will come back along the way this season it's not like the tigers a couple years
04:36ago where you had guys like aiden hutchinson who were just done for the season correct you've got
04:41reinforcements on the way with this team the problem is that some of those reinforcements have not
04:45weren't weren't very good before they got hurt like kerry carpenter what the hell happened to him
04:49well the play he got hurt on i know i saw that i mean it looked like out of a
04:53little league yes what
04:55do you mean inside the ballpark homer what do you mean you're jogging and lollipopping to throw in i hope
04:59guys like conor mcdavid are watching i said wait a second i played the playoffs with a broken foot
05:04and you're out for that shoulder thing but even the night before when so paris can't feel the ball
05:11hit uh rolling towards him in right field oh their defense is horrible as well it's what fourth most
05:16errors i believe yeah in baseball how about this i could i this one i looked up because you watch
05:23these guys kansas city in particular they're outfielders throwing like darts okay you realize
05:30the tigers have one outfield assist all season who are the tigers outfielder you sit there say boy
05:36that guy's got a really good arm i can't run on him no one exactly i mean and probably i
05:42don't know
05:42i don't remember the play that the outfield assist was probably a great tag by javi or something
05:47it might have been in terms of outfield defense it's the worst of major league baseball yes debt
05:53last and defensive run saved and you saw it on friday night you saw it on saturday you've seen
05:56it all season long their defense is bad their offense is ice cold right now other than gage
06:01workman uh and the pitching's in shambles right riley green's hitting the ball well there's not a lot
06:07of power there yeah he's a bright spot but collectively the offense has not been very good especially in the
06:12month of may so it's why it all feels a lot heavier than the standings indicate exactly now
06:19are the white socks i mean white socks got the uh the guy from korea is like 15 home runs
06:25there's they're in there he's from japan oh okay murakami yeah yeah uh i thought he played in the
06:32korean league maybe he did i don't know it's whatever he's doing he's keeping them alive the royals i don't
06:39know what their problem is i thought they were going to be much better this year and they're what
06:43they're they got swept by the tigers and they got and they won two out of three against the tigers
06:48cleveland will always be there because they're cleveland and they made an interesting trade over
06:52the weekend getting a gold glove catcher from the san francisco giants yeah felt like a very cleveland
06:59move yeah and minnesota they're just hanging around they're all hanging around because they all stink
07:04no one's running away with this that's the whole point right the tigers are not playing an
07:08inspiring brand of baseball very few redeeming qualities even this weekend where they won sunday
07:13they lost two or three to the royals yes so nobody's feeling good and when you hear well
07:18through 40 games they've never made the playoffs playing this poorly you're right though you have
07:24to color outside those lines and realize well hold on no one's running away with the division
07:28right guys are going to come back this thing's far from over it may be a very painful summer oh
07:33it's
07:34man you talk about real unwatchable this baseball team even when they win is very tough to watch at
07:40times because they're just not exciting they don't hit the ball out of the ballpark no i was pulling
07:45that up too their home run numbers are terrible isolated power terrible i mean the lineup card they
07:51submitted yesterday oh i know wolf if not for gauge workman who i'll say again right by the way his
08:00backstory who the hell is this guy he's a former tiger draft pick yeah he was in the cova draft
08:06same
08:06draft as torkelson was a teammate of torkelson at arizona state forks up baby he that was his tiger
08:13debut because he ended up uh the cubs the cubs and briefly with the white socks too before making his
08:19way back to detroit and uh pinch hit home run first career home run only his fourth major league
08:24hit just as we all predicted exactly they knew they needed something they needed something good to
08:30come uh out of that series when you're in your most dire desperate position yeah you look and turn
08:36the gauge work the gauge work gauge work which sounds like a uh i don't know like a prosecutor all
08:42right prosecuting for the side is gauge workman he almost sounds like a person you'd make up for a
08:46blue collar sports city he's just a workman yes exactly gauge gauge will put into work he fits
08:53detroit damn it right blue collar he's gritty yeah gauge workman nickname is tater right fittingly
09:00he hit one 248-539-9797 we got stoney in today and tomorrow we'll get to the pistons at 635
09:09talking
09:09about game three set the tone for game four and uh what happened to you in philly trying to watch
09:14game
09:14three deserves some attention as well that's at 702 a stony conundrum i always love these yes it's 97 one
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