00:04happy to be with you on a tuesday not sure what crawled in doug's kale but we're here ready to
00:13rock um that was quite something wasn't it it was it was michael i think he was i think he
00:22was a
00:22little upset at his listeners of his show okay because they weren't understanding that trajan
00:29langdon is not going to come out there and throw his team under the bus and say we're going to
00:33trade
00:33this person this person this person this person sucks and we're just not good enough and i think
00:39that's what upset him there there is a middle ground and i think that's what's getting lost
00:44here and i said i think it also would be nice if if if trajan would come out with a
00:49little more
00:49energy than an unsafe fart i think fans want to hear the word championships i think fans want to
00:57hear a gm go look nice season yeah but we are here to win championships and i'm going to do
01:03everything it takes to get us one that that's what fans want i think fans just want to know their
01:08teams are aspiring to the same thing they are and when trajan talks about these these little almost
01:14cable news talking points you know we were the youngest team no you weren't the thunder were 23.9
01:21years you were 24.3 so automatically fact check that so yeah exactly no one cares yeah and 14
01:28no one cares you made the playoffs last year you made it this year so like yeah when doug has
01:33a
01:33chernobyl which by the way i love it's good radio but it's also no fans here are tired they haven't
01:41won
01:41a title in basketball in going on what 23 years uh football is hashtag never hockey now the wings have
01:49the longest playoff drought in the town and baseball currently the tigers have a bottom four record
01:54and a gm who sounded a lot like this gm yeah and loved his core and rut row here we
02:01are so no i i will
02:02always side with fans i'm never caping up for a gm in this town won't happen i think fans want
02:08to hear
02:10they want to feel and believe that you care not you michael but they want to feel and believe that
02:15the team and the general manager cares the way that they care they want to know that hey my hard
02:21earned money is not being wasted i'm going to renew my season tickets but i want to know that you're
02:26trying to bring me a championship that i can sit there that right there for that right there don't
02:31talk to me about sustainability or being good long term or i i also loved his reset of we're young
02:38we're young we're young he basically should have just said and we're magically delicious
02:42that that everyone is just going to magically get better i i just lucky so i'm glad you picked up
02:51on
02:51that that leprechaun i'm probably going to pay to guard for them but i i i i will side with
02:58fans is
02:59that no fans want to hear g first of all you know my stance on this i while i don't
03:04think trajan and
03:05i'll agree with doug you're not going to come out and be like yep everyone's on the block no but
03:10i i do
03:10think if you're going to be for all intensive purposes the ceo of a multi-billion dollar
03:16corporation you can't display this way i think him harris holmes eiserman they all collectively get
03:23an f in this town for public speaking and messaging yeah trajan honestly buddy i here's here's a red bull
03:31it'll here's a c4 it'll give you wings i need you to go on stage and act like you're into
03:38this yeah
03:39i don't need you to be macho man or ted dibiase and maybe like rubbing your hands together with a
03:45money belt no we don't need that but can you go out and say the word we are here to
03:50win championships
03:50we are going to do what it takes blobbity boo something why i don't understand why it's so hard
03:57for everybody the the people in the know the the the ones who make the decisions to say championship
04:04i don't understand across the sports mike why it's so hard to say that but hold on one second i
04:10was
04:10waiting to get called on go ahead no no i'll get to you in a minute sir but when i
04:15look at trajan i think
04:17the worst thing that happened for this press conference that he had was it came after last
04:22night's basketball game where you saw there it is championship basketball being played either team
04:29pick one you're not you don't have wimby doesn't matter i can look at okc they don't have wimby his
04:35answer to that drove me crazy no one is saying oh find a 7-4 unicorn we're saying you're not
04:44within
04:4420 points of either of those teams no that was a level of basketball that this roster doesn't attain
04:50in their sensual dreams like it's okay to just say we got a long way to go and i'm gonna
04:58get us there
04:59that's what fans want that's the middle ground right there i'm not throwing anybody under the
05:03bus but i do realize that we're not quite up to stuff now mr villini i'm gonna call on you
05:08sir
05:08yes go ahead why why is it that uh we can't say championship in this town because i don't think
05:13the teams in this town try i think the tigers gave you the best effort increasing payroll but they
05:19did it in a flawed way where it was only pitching and they didn't do anything to the lineup but
05:23i don't
05:24think these teams really try for a championship and i'm gonna shout out my brother from another
05:29mother todd mcclellan i think he said it best when he was doing the exit interview with the wings
05:35i don't think these fans want a stanley cup i think they just want a team it's not they're not
05:39embarrassed though are they what teams made an all-in move tigers getting valdez would be the closest
05:45and the tigers payroll went up now they didn't spend appropriately because it was all on pitching
05:49right and the lineup is in fact morbid hashtag injuries but it is what it is have the lions
05:55done anything to make you feel like they're all in to win a super bowl no have the red wings
06:00let me
06:01help you no and no uh and then the pistons look they punted last offseason they punted the trade
06:08deadline and while i don't expect trajan to be like yeehaw and have his assless trade chaps on
06:17and run around like buddy the cowboy like no i but i i didn't walk away listening to this
06:24uh that they're going to trade a sir thompson or that they're going to even think about moving
06:29durin or that or that this is the guy that will pull an all-in larry mark and tight move
06:36i didn't
06:36walk away feeling that i think there's a middle ground that exists and one that i never get in this
06:42town i'm with you no it's a straw man to suggest langdon should go out there oiled up like rambo
06:48with a bullet chain on and say everybody's for sale no one is asking that the middle ground is
06:55i will die to win a championship i know what we're here to do i know what mr gore's wants
07:02i know what
07:03i want and i'm gonna do whatever it takes and when you're asked the follow-up your answer is
07:09whatever it takes fans just to your you mean you mean the answer is it yeah i understood the
07:15question oh that was tough that wasn't good but i to your point i fans just want to feel bought
07:21in
07:21they want to feel that but again man you're raising ticket prices every year on these fans
07:27and yet you come out there and say give us time give us time marginal moves we're gonna get there
07:34we kind of like our guys but you don't cut them a break so yeah fans want just they want
07:39to believe
07:40that i'm going to see a title and if you even because if you say a championship mike it's not
07:48good for job security because now we can hold you to that hey i'll offer the same five grand from
07:53greater life church that we offered to dirks to pass a lie detective test go ahead i'll offer it to
07:58trajan when he was asked the question about your current roster i know he had to answer it that way
08:03there is no world he believes this roster is championship good do you just please please
08:10not after watching last night i'd rather him just say i love our guys but we're not there yet
08:15because guess what your players watched those games last night they know they're not there yet
08:20i was like inner thoroughly entertained and and then you look at this pistons team and
08:26okay what what would they have done had they played either one of those teams in the nba finals yes
08:31it would have looked like okc versus the lakers where it could have been a three-game sweep and
08:37they would have said hey do you really need us to play the fourth game or do you just want
08:40your
08:40pride and your dignity that's no you're nailing it no they would it would have been a slaughterhouse
08:45they would have taken a bolt to the skull but that's my point it's like i i i think it's
08:50good to
08:51see how game seven went and then you watch last night and there's no way that front office can have
08:57meetings this summer and operate in the margins because if they do they're telling you they're not
09:03serious and i think that's okay as a fan to be angry so if you want to be angry don't
09:07be angry at
09:08doug don't do that don't upset doug's day be angry with us we're fueled by it we love it be
09:13as angry as
09:14you like i think give every right to be angry it is grand slam or nothing for this franchise this
09:21summer
09:21i don't want to hear about bums all i heard was it was a collection of kimbo slice bum fights
09:28colin sexton are you kidding me kimbo slice and lucky charms you owe one today we're ready
09:37you're out of control we're ready you're gonna be a bro no i'm not i just i can't believe some
09:43of
09:43the names that get thrown out that the answer is and here's the this is okay i want to go
09:48old school
09:49for a second or we could go new school if if you're the coach at the university of michigan football
09:55uh or back in the day it was you know when d'antonio was at state if i'm recruiting a
10:00player
10:00can you help me beat ohio state if yes i'm going to recruit you if no you're not good enough
10:07the only
10:08players the piston should be even targeting this summer do i get closer to what i watched on tv last
10:15night yes or no so look last night should be a reality check for the you know play the song
10:22wear the belt goofball portion of this fan base because if you thought you were close and sunday
10:30night didn't quite push you over the edge you watch last night see i'm nowhere close i don't think i
10:37don't think a lot of them watched last night because their season ended and they kind of turned
10:40off basketball well it would explain a lot of their takes so yeah that probably makes sense
10:45david don't look at me that way i want the bell no give me the bell oh you you're right
10:52i just i don't think they i don't think they stood up stayed up to watch that game because
10:56when the pistons lost all right basketball is over let me know who won the title but give us your
11:02takeaways um i'm not going to replay the langdon sound i that would be the equivalent of spraying
11:08melting melatonin out of the speakers of your vehicle that's not good for anyone bueller
11:13bueller i'm sorry i just i do think when you know when you when you run companies and that's what
11:19these people are i'm sorry you need media training it's not acceptable to take a microphone and and
11:25present yourself as such it's it's insanity yeah but we exist in this world like no offense you're not
11:30a cardiologist trajan you're not coming out to deliver the news that the four-year-old you were
11:34operating on is dead on the table okay you run a basketball team you play fantasy basketball
11:39you take a billionaire's money and you buy and sell players it's not that real if you want to have
11:46the
11:46tone he had today come out after there's some ungodly attack or something or you're part of
11:52centcom and you're talking about war right it's basketball it's not that real i just i've gotten to a
11:59point in my life i actually find these people like comedians i don't need shane gillis i can just
12:04listen to our gms in this town talk how serious can you take yourself oh wow you buy and sell
12:10sports
12:11people for a living oh i mean like are you kidding me you know what david can play the ultimate
12:17meanest
12:18game of who said it if he just with the gms with the gms i mean they're look you're hearing
12:23it because
12:23i could have been all of it's a cable news talking point with the pistons we're young you know here
12:29hold on let me give you another three by five hey you know we won very few games a couple
12:34years ago
12:34hold on let me give you another three by five up there trading um our guys love coming to work
12:40oh
12:40hold on i'm running a three by five let me give you one more uh wait wait don't forget to
12:44tell them
12:44that uh jd's only 22 got it all right questions because i'm not answering those two four eight five
12:52three nine 97 97 i want to hear from you you have every right to be angry and you have
12:58every right
12:58to make a demand of your team let's talk about it but what is the player what is the move
13:04and your faith
13:05quotient that gets you into that discussion of what you watched last night which was the game of the
13:13year in the nba double overtime it was rocky balboa versus clubber lang it was haymaker after haymaker
13:20back and forth and that's the level and those teams are going to be around the next five to seven
13:28years so your job is to get there what are you going to do and i don't for a second
13:34believe trajan
13:35believes it's keeping this thing together but if he's not going to move a sore and he's not going
13:40to move duran oh i got some problems for you because you ain't got nothing else anybody wants
13:45and then you get into the colin sexton pile i'd rather just skip dinner two four eight five three
13:53nine 97 97 here's rico
13:55you
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