00:07the Knicks are into the finals the Cavs didn't put up a fight how does that make you feel as
00:12a Pistons fan we'll get to it at 835 got Stoney in for John today Heather she's back from Memorial
00:20Day weekend Gov and Greg behind the glass and we are settled in a Memorial Day that didn't have
00:25any Tiger baseball I think there were like 13 games yesterday not 15 like they should have been
00:34so you did miss the Tigers yesterday this Tigers team you missed them I missed having them on the
00:40background they've had worse years where the games are still on the radio and you I'm just teasing
00:45you I also wanted at least as background noise yeah it's Memorial Day I mean come on I like a
00:53doubleheader but Memorial Day baseball and Greek food no seriously Memorial Day's baseball
01:01grilling and baseball yeah even bad baseball yes baseball and this has been bad baseball
01:07right look I mean we're sitting here Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer so hey happy
01:12summer did the Angels or they did they play at home on Sunday that they needed a day off for
01:19a long
01:19west coast west to east trip I think they played Texas in Texas so it's not that we're not talking
01:25that long of a flight right no it's lame okay I guess the first question is a really simple one
01:33are
01:33you bummed they weren't playing yesterday bummed a little bit okay and then and then obviously more
01:40bummed with the way they've been playing yes do you already have them written off for the summer
01:46that's the deeper question we want to hear from Tiger fans 248-539-9797 I'm close I'm going to give
01:52another couple weeks but I'm very close to writing them off they're just they're not a fun team to
01:57watch that's the other thing it's one thing to lose if they lost games like you know 6-4 8
02:03-7
02:04you know we're in games well I might feel a little differently I'd be frustrated with the pitching but
02:12you know what they're just boring well they can't hit they're boring yeah it's Sunday Torkelson got an
02:19RBI with a number yeah this'll be the spark um writing them off hmm there are five games out of
02:30the
02:30playoffs right now but there's about 83 teams in front of them right then the whole league except
02:35the angels yeah who they play starting tonight right and by the way before you start chalking
02:40these up to wins no the Tigers were up in every game against the Orioles and still dropped two or
02:45three the angels have won three in a row and just played a couple really close games losses with the
02:51athletics before that they're going to throw their best pitcher Soriano opposite Casey Mize and we got
02:56to start Flaherty in one of the games so there's really not a lot of reason to believe things are
03:02going to turn around and Stoney I'd like to be clear on this they have to turn around so significantly
03:08that this team becomes buyers to capitalize on Scooble and if it's not going to turn around all the way
03:14to
03:14that degree then you have to do the right thing which is sell him right which is why it's very
03:19easy to
03:19write this off as a lost year in a lot of ways it reminds me a much younger Jim Costa
03:24excited for the
03:2508 Tigers right expectations let's go contend and that was a lost season they lost 88 games and
03:33we're out of it it's it's not identical but it has the same feeling to me I get the expectations
03:40for
03:40this season were pretty high though because of the division they were high in 08 they added Cabrera
03:46they had been in the World Series in 06 they had Sheffield who's a disappointment that year yeah I know
03:50look the Miggy trade you know put them in a different stratosphere yes they were definitely
03:55disappointing this year is it's just crazy because the improvements that they've gotten from certain
04:02people have been pretty good but they're so far and few between and this whole look we can be wrong
04:10all right because everybody I would say at this radio station for the most part I don't I don't say
04:15to
04:15speak for everyone one of them dad a right-handed bat preferably Bo Bichette as a free agent
04:21Bo Bichette's been horrible what's his OPS is like less than 600 isn't it something like that
04:26so so let's say they did that and he was still bad I mean they Tigers would still be in
04:32the same
04:32situation although at least you have a threat when he comes to the plate as opposed to like Zach Short
04:37right but to be clear I don't believe it was Bichette or bust it was hey you're the brainiacs who
04:42run the
04:43team yeah stop smelling your own farts and add somebody right and they didn't anybody yeah they
04:49didn't they didn't add a single bat they promoted from within a McGonagall and he's predictably having
04:54some some rookie bumps still very good player but they added nobody outside the organization
04:59none they believed remember Scott Harris said I stay I stay up at night thinking how our offense
05:04turned into this at the end of the year well maybe the offense was never that good and this is
05:07more
05:08correct they are yes and he effed up yeah look they got seduced by the Torkelson had changed
05:14right yeah and he didn't Riley Green's had a good season he's a different no power he doesn't strike
05:21out as much but still a good season you know you can go on and on through this roster of
05:25this
05:25disappointment after disappointment I mean Colt Keith not a lot of money but they you know they went out
05:30and signed him before he even stepped on a major league diamond and he hasn't he gets hits but he
05:37doesn't has no power where is the power Dylan Dingler is their power yeah you got what 10 home
05:42runs now and it's it's a rare rare thing that we see the ball leave the yard with this group
05:47in the month of May dead last and run scored I think 30th or 29th bottom two in isolated power
05:53there's just no power it makes it hard because then you ask a team to have three or four base
05:58runners
05:58in an inning right to generate something right and you have to hope that they can like even get a
06:02sacrifice flighting to score a freaking run I'm happy you brought up Colt Keith because I
06:08I don't know what people think of Colt Keith I'm not going to kill him for for signing Colt Keith
06:11to
06:12the deal they did no because it felt like from a risk standpoint low risk right it's not a Kevin
06:18McGonigal 150 million dollar commitment correct but we are now in the third year of Colt Keith he has
06:23never displayed real power he doesn't have a real position and this season he's a minus war player not
06:29even a replacement level MLB player in his third season of MLB ball if these are the type of guys
06:36you've been accumulating it's no wonder you can't score any runs yes exactly like the McKinstries
06:41and the Veerlings it's utilities and platoons and it's it's not real bats that you can rely on
06:46so then what happens predictably is you have a super inconsistent that's what it's been over the
06:50last two seasons some very high highs and very low lows because you don't have stable quality
06:55everyday major league bats right and you know enough of Wenzel Perez and I granted look he's
07:01only here because what Parker Meadows got hurt or Kerry Carpenter yeah but he's been the worst
07:05player major league baseball yes I mean send somebody up who can at least did you I read it
07:12earlier but for people who missed it the AJ quotes from Friday this got lost in the weekend Evan
07:17Petzold have had a minute I didn't rub me the right way I'm sure it didn't sit well with most
07:22of the
07:22fans but AJ was asked about you know why they didn't call somebody up Max Anderson so you have
07:29the Max Anderson numbers then I'll get this quote Max Anderson's right now in Toledo granted just 69
07:34at bats he's coming off an injury but it's 69 at bats uh he's hitting 319 with a 787 OPS
07:41and two home
07:41runs so it's not a lot of AAA bats but what do you have them for you got they brought
07:48up uh how you
07:49Lee already he's a second baseman too they have all these guys that can play you you know they're
07:54versatile like great positionality they can play all these positions yeah great but they can't hit
08:00so then why not call somebody up AJ Hinch said it's not as simple as try something there are roster
08:06ramifications there are playing time ramifications end quote so for playing time ramifications I
08:11understand to a certain extent he doesn't want a guy to come up here and sit on his ass okay
08:15do they
08:15have so many good bats that no exactly that's the point there's opportunity for someone to come up
08:20and hit and get regular at bats given the fact that half the lineup is below the Mendoza line right
08:24so roster ramifications that's just reading between the lines we got a 40-man roster Max
08:31Anderson's not on it some of these other guys aren't on it here's the thing Zach Short was DFA'd by
08:36the organization this month once already yes you can remove him from the 40-man but who's going to
08:42play short you may have heard of Kevin McGonigal and I keep hearing about how Zach McKinstry's a
08:47integral cog in his team all-star all-star Zach McKinstry so at that point I don't need Zach Short
08:53what's what's the roster ramification of Zach Short being what sent to triple no one's going to claim
08:59him you're not allowed to have more than one Zach on a team anyway that's I forgot about that rule
09:02sorry yeah uh and Zach Short before the Tigers even got him on the roster he was playing what minor
09:10leagues for the nationals for a little bit and the minor wasn't even playing major league baseball
09:14I mean really there's nobody down there that you can is he here because they feel they need a
09:20short stop but then I'm telling you you play McGonigal every day you said you're going to play him
09:23every day play him a short stop and then if something happens where you need him to get a day
09:28off his
09:28feet McKinstry can play short for a day as opposed to having you know Zach Short on the roster yes
09:35absolutely how you link and play yeah they said he was the emergency short stop yeah for a day I
09:43mean well I have no idea when the hell's Javi coming back yeah I don't have an update on that
09:47I
09:47know Torres is yeah he's having a setback yes exactly but the the point would be okay let's say I
09:54lose Zach Short the guy hitting a buck 36 who's not really a major league ball player anymore
10:00and maybe never was come on he had a double on Sunday and a single yeah my point is let's
10:05say
10:05you take him off the 40 man no one else is going to claim him no but if somebody did
10:10aren't there
10:10other Zach shorts out there that you could get for pennies from somebody else yes so what's the harm
10:18what's the harm in Max Anderson coming up and getting a couple you know a couple cuts yeah you're
10:22right I always use the phrase what's the downside what is the downside is he going to be overmatched
10:27Max Anderson who's what 25 years old played college ball 24 24 okay so he played some college
10:33baseball he's been really good in the minors all he basically does is hit he's not a great fielder I
10:38don't care their fielding sucks too but just get somebody up let's just see some new faces here
10:45because the guys they have it's not like we're just saying make changes for the sake of making
10:49changes no the guys you have playing aren't doing squat that's the problem got some text coming in
10:58we got open lines talking Tigers the first question was more light-hearted like are you disappointed
11:02they didn't play yesterday as bad as they've been did you want baseball on Memorial Day yeah it's
11:06Memorial Day and then speaking of how bad they've been have you written them off for the summer
11:10summer just started right Memorial Day is gone summer's here have you written them off for the
11:14summer text coming in will somebody on your station say publicly that it's complete bs the Tigers didn't
11:20play on Memorial Day second time in three years I don't care how bad they are MLB team should be
11:24playing on Memorial Day for the July cookouts horseshoes bocce ball no Tigers on the radio
11:30sickening Mike in Clarkston we've said it twice today I mean what do you want us to want us to
11:35do
11:35go send a bus to Rob Manfred's house just quick the Angels were in or they're at home against the
11:42Rangers
11:42so there was no way they were sending LA who wouldn't leave until you know what would be
11:48four o'clock Pacific time seven here they were in that they were in Anaheim yes to play a day
11:52game
11:53here and then I think they decided a night game would be kind of awkward because you would think
12:00typically the holiday you'd play during the day that would be my reasoning here but I would at that
12:05point at least just play the game at night yeah watched a rocky marathon instead of Tiger baseball
12:12it was great oh every MLB team should play on Memorial Day there should be a nationally televised
12:18game on in the afternoon not on prime or apple either go Tigers good morning don't get me wrong
12:23I enjoyed the last couple years except for the fade but I was amazed we were doing that well with
12:28this roster I'm not surprised at the decline at all I'm not 100% surprised but I thought some of
12:35these guys would get a little better like like twerkelson just because the names are the same
12:40stony I know I get it it's very depressing it's 97-1
12:46you
12:46you
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