00:07Michigan basketball big man commit Marcus Moller announced that he's cancer free Moller a seven
00:12foot three center from Denmark Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti said yesterday that the conference
00:17has a deep commitment to the college football playoff expanding to 24 teams the Spurs and
00:22Thunder will continue their series tonight at 8 30 San Antonio has a one nothing lead there
00:26Darren Fox questionable for the Spurs with ankle soreness avalanche star defenseman
00:31uh Kale McCarr is sitting out game one of the west
00:39that was not Jeremy Otto's fault it was Rico's all right we are here on a Wednesday I've got your
00:48back
00:48Otto thank you let me I want to tell you today's going to be a very very good show and
00:54it's because
00:55the man to my left as as we like to say Kenny he's rested and crested that's right founder's
01:04gear is out today the quarter zip has made an appearance he is rested and crested I didn't
01:12say that let's just also by the way we're going to need the new Doug drop you are aware of
01:17this right
01:20which one would that be oh you didn't hear it I must I must have missed it what did he
01:25say let's
01:25just say why don't you say it so that we have two bats drop to shame we'll talk all right
01:32and no
01:32Kenny I'm not gonna say it so that you can no turn okay I'll turn my mic off and turn
01:39down my head
01:39first of all you have no honor so nothing you say you have no honor you're a founder I know
01:45the
01:45rules of that society it's unscrupulous it's highly honorable okay listen can I do something to start
01:52the show I don't want to do it but I'm forced to do it and we get this out of
01:59the way and then we get
02:00to all our stuff including I'm turning my microphone off at four o'clock this is you
02:06your your man Petiti you guys can talk I I'm I'm I'm I'm mad at myself for watching and I'm
02:17mad at
02:17myself for bringing this up but I'm hitting a point with the Tigers um I'm very sensitive to what I
02:25consider malpractice never we talk sports we have fun we'll talk about lineups we'll try to make sense
02:32of certain things I don't make a habit here of being like okay this guy's just clueless you know
02:39baseball managers have more baseball knowledge in one toe than the average human has in their whole
02:45body but that doesn't preclude them from doing insanely stupid things and I I I'm sorry but I
02:52thought AJ Hinch in this Tigers ball club last night they they had one of those malpractice things
02:58last night do you know who was on deck when the game ended as they lost 4-3 only giving
03:04up four
03:04hits by the way do you know who was on deck with two men on to finish that game yeah
03:09who was it say
03:10the name it was a Riley Green correct why was he on deck as that game ended he was batting
03:16fifth
03:16right can you say that for the people in the back where was he batting in this batting fifth
03:19okay and just so I'm clear we don't have four Hank Greenberg sitting ahead of him correct no
03:25okay is he clearly the best Tigers hitter as of right now yes he's not gonna cover off uh he's
03:30a top 10 hitter across all of major league baseball in almost every category sans home runs where he's
03:36been a little light on power right highest batting average highest OBP highest BABIP all of it
03:43what planet is AJ Hinch on batting him fifth and batting Jemai Jones third now before one of you
03:55cape artists tells me that's because he's gonna pinch hit somebody carp's dead you you don't get to
04:04manage like last year when it's not last year and am I more sensitive to this because the team is
04:10two and twelve since Google got hurt or the fact they haven't won a series in what feels like a
04:15month you're damn right but there's no justification to have Riley Green hitting fifth in almost any
04:26lineup in baseball I may add you can't do it and yet beyond bases loaded and I gotta look at
04:35Zach
04:36short or Zach McKinstry or Jemai Jones they don't score in the eighth we get to the ninth I got
04:42two
04:42ducks on the pond I'm still looking at Jemai Jones like beyond all of it do you know the differential
04:51between a player hitting second in the order and fifth in the order over the course of a year in
04:56the
04:56aggregate plate appearances it's about 65 plate appearances okay the idea on this team you don't
05:09have the luxury of well we're gonna stretch the lineup you don't have that luxury Rico it's McGonagall
05:16Green Green McGonagall that's it they gotta hit together all right as uh Jemai went up to the plate
05:26and I'm like well here's your chance to be a hero no no well he struck out looking right yeah
05:31I I just
05:34guys look they've lost the first two to the guardians they're now seven and a half out they're
05:39underdogs again today as they have Tanner Bybee on the mound and you have a bullpen day team left
05:45seven or eight runners on base in the seventh eighth and ninth bases loaded in the eighth two men on
05:51in the
05:51ninth and it's another day I don't have Max Anderson here it's another day I don't have Max
05:57Clark it's another day I don't have random farmhand x who would simply be better than the nonsense you
06:04remember years ago we did wham wins above mayton yes yeah well we're doing waz wins above short
06:10basically if you're not Zach short grab a bat you want Eduardo Valencia he led the team in home run
06:18in the system in home runs last year turn around son what's the name on the back of your jersey
06:22go
06:22ahead grab you go you're good I just I don't know what the hell is going on and is AJ
06:30Hinch a good
06:30manager yes but there's no justification for what he did last night and it in my world it contributed to
06:38them losing another game where okay you're nine games under 500 morning showed a very good conversation
06:44about this too you know it's it's it's not panic but it's close because do the math if you want
06:50to
06:50make the playoffs the gold standard of getting a wild card usually is about 86 wins cool turn those
06:56numbers around that's the pace you're on you're on pace to be a 68 win team okay so if you
07:05want to
07:06turn that around in your nine games under and you need to be 10 games over you can do the
07:11math on
07:11this okay you got to basically be 20 games over 500 over the next 100 games well the last 100
07:21games
07:21you've played you're 15 games under 500 you're talking about a team that hasn't played good baseball
07:29in basically a year has to have a 30 game turnaround and I got Riley Green hitting fifth
07:37yeah look dude yeah come on I'm being serious right no I didn't understand that at all I was like
07:44yeah and then he's I think what made it worse what really brings your point to light
07:49is when the game is on the line in the bottom of the ninth he never made it to the
07:54plate correct
07:55because he's hitting it in a place in the lineup that he should never hit it doesn't matter the
08:01matchup it doesn't matter the circumstance it doesn't matter the day if Riley's playing he's
08:06got to hit in the top three yeah you want him next to McGonagall or just top three yeah it
08:12just
08:13I'm starting to feel like this is bleeding over into into managerial decisions well I'm or
08:19desperation's kicking in I don't know man or bad managing period David you know what it could be both
08:24because because here's the problem that I have and we we began to have this conversation at the end
08:29of last year when they were struggling offensively we had this whole platoon conversation with Kerry
08:33Carpenter versus lefty right all this stuff that he would do with the lefty righty lineup stuff
08:38and I think he stuck with that and I think that's why he put Riley Green at five because what
08:44he batted
08:45last year his OPS last year against lefties was not good but it's great this year but it is great
08:51this
08:51year so why do we continue to do that when you just put the bat where the bat needs to
08:57be period
09:02I'd ask for phone calls I know you don't care I'd ask for texts not gonna bother I don't think
09:10you
09:10care about this baseball team I think you've moved on it's not even Memorial Day I don't think you're
09:16watching and I'm not even mad at you but for one segment I had to open the show with it
09:22I was just
09:23seething watching this last night and I'm going because of this smartest guy in the room attitude
09:28and having Riley hit fifth great the game ended with him with a bat in the on-deck circle
09:37there's no world he's your best player right now any other team take their best player and find me
09:46where they're ever hitting fifth just find it for me yeah this isn't a struggling Stephen Kwan hitting
09:53fifth it's Riley Green and by the way the Guardians lineup is better than yours guys like Chase
10:01Delauter and Travis Bazzana and and obviously Jay Ram like those are real player you like
10:06they're pedigreed they're real and even Manzardo real like they're they're they're rock solid like
10:15this lineup Rico you are playing players who not only are below league average they are below
10:21replacement level they are below an average minor leaguer and he's hitting Riley Green fifth
10:28yeah come on Mike I'm with you like you said he should be at the top of the lineup so
10:35that you
10:36could try to manufacture runs because I do think that if he was there in either the third or the
10:41fourth spot you're playing you're at least going to be playing extra innings now I don't know if you
10:47would win the game or not but you give yourself a better chance it's just about the chance I can't
10:51do it as predictive measure I can just tell you when I don't get to see my best player up
10:56at the plate
10:56he was robbed of a plate appearance by managerial malpractice if you hit Riley fifth all year he is
11:05getting 60 less walks to the plate 60 what planet yeah what planet I don't care if everybody's healthy
11:15I don't care about lefty righty he's killing all pitching right now and by the way you better get it
11:21while it's good the bread's hot he's not going to maintain that batting average on balls in play
11:25no so you bet best get it now you don't think it's going to be like full uh Javi bias
11:31from last year
11:31do you no but a regression of 10 to 15 percent is is probably coming and Riley you'll still have
11:39a nice
11:39year but this maintaining a BABIP of north of 400 no one does that it's not possible right
11:45so look I'd ask for calls I don't know here's the number if you want it not even mad if
11:51you don't
11:52bother I'm mad at myself for watching this nonsense 248-539-9797 David I'm sorry if I hijacked the show
12:01but I just couldn't go whistle by the graveyard that was malfeasance last night you cannot have that
12:08and there's there's no justification I'll accept well you see no no you see yeah you screwed yourself
12:16Riley's fifth no and do another lineup try it again well how about fourth do it again he's got
12:25to hit in the top three and the game ends not and again am I angry enough I got to
12:30see the team have
12:31the bases loaded and who you send it up there to save the day what is McKinstry short who's coming
12:37up
12:38that's nonsense then the ninth inning I don't get to see my best player because he's hitting fifth
12:44or you saw him in the on deck circle I just I'm sorry and I know I I made the
12:51joke about taking a
12:52sabbatical Rico I I don't know was I don't like to watch the game oh ESPN with these stupid pop
12:59-ups
12:59can ESPN go to hell I'm trying to pull up a box score and they want to show me a
13:03Marlon Brando movie
13:04go to hell god the only way that gets worse is if John Fanta appeared on my screen I you
13:10know what
13:10the hell I don't even F the box score I have all of it to hell with this team let
13:14me don't care let
13:15me get this get yourself together just read all right I'm gonna hit Riley seventh you know what
13:22here's the beauty of it if I want to watch Riley bat in the fifth spot
13:26you
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