00:04and that would be your final you can hear the disgust in dan dickerson's voice
00:07john this may be a pleasant surprise i'll read this text before we get into the tigers
00:12bob and shelby township says i listened to 97.1 to start my morning every day and i was dreading
00:19listening to what i assumed would have been 30 minutes of last night's continual abysmal tiger
00:25performance yet i've been pleasantly surprised listening to john's upcoming fishing trip and
00:29i look forward to the recap when he returns i will be back on air next thursday morning
00:33i hope so i hope nothing goes drastically wrong you and my wife are you i'm safer up there
00:44than i am down here but it's the first time though we'll move on to the tigers here in a
00:51minute this
00:51is the first time in our marriage yeah where in large part i will be unreachable and so
01:00i i do every night i let her know okay this is where i'll be tomorrow what lake i'm on
01:07she's got the outfitter's number in case something happens down here which i have 100 certainty
01:11something will it's what happens talking about your fishing trip has lowered the blood pressure
01:18collectively of our listeners so i think it was a good thing but we can't avoid the tigers forever
01:23yeah last night felt like more than one game felt like more than one loss because there were so many
01:31acts of dumbassery crammed into one baseball game you got the worst team in the american league in
01:38town scratch that the worst team in the american league plays in this town it's now the tigers
01:42in the game torkelson oh for forkelson with four strikeouts he wasn't even the worst to me
01:50because i got matt veerling who's lollygagging and lolly popping a throw in from center field
01:55giving up a run disgusting and aj aj should have yanked his ass right then and there middle of the
01:59inning i mean i'm sorry you got ran somebody out either you accept that by keeping him in or you
02:04take a stand and as your team has now lost 17 of their last 20 games enough is enough throw
02:11the
02:11ball in with some urgency stop acting like this is little league or this is you know a vacation out
02:17in the outfield so there's a run right away that that kind of gets you upset and fired up john
02:24i
02:24got wentzel perez who finally hit a home run but he misplays a ball in right field in the big
02:30eighth
02:30inning where the game blows up where vest throws 34 pitches and aj lets him die on the vine wentzel
02:35perez after the game shares not one not two not three not four but five instagram stories
02:41celebrating his home run last night buddy you're the worst player in baseball your team lost that's
02:47why it was a moment we're celebrating you screwed up hey maybe one five what point are you trying to
02:54prove here that you're good you're not you're a negative one war player there's nobody worse in
02:59major league baseball your ass shouldn't even be on the roster and you're gonna pimp your homer five
03:03times on instagram there was no shortage of things to be worked up about so i'll ask you john what
03:09bothered you most the mad beerling that i i oh so i'll tell you a quick story last night teddy
03:21had
03:21baseball practice four years old right and it's they can't catch they can't throw they can't hit
03:27like they don't even know where first base is right they hit it and they're carrying the bat which is
03:31the
03:31cutest thing ever and the one thing when i got done we got in the car and i had the
03:37the the dad
03:38coach to teddy moment i told him every time you run from base to base you run to the base
03:47you don't run
03:48three quarters of the way which he has no idea what that means but i said you you don't stop
03:52and walk
03:53and touch the bag like and and that was a four-year-old right i'm coaching him up at that
04:01time
04:02to hustle to play until the play is over and then i turn on the tiger game and i'm using
04:13it as an
04:13example and again teddy has no idea who matt veerling is or what even went wrong but i'm sitting there
04:18telling him this is why you hustle it has to be part of your dna or else crap like that
04:25happens
04:25and all of a sudden you have a picture that's having a really good outing and it was seven strikeouts
04:32it
04:32was one walk and i know you everyone's why you're going to give up a home run but to then
04:37pile on with
04:38an unnecessary run that was an earned run but it didn't need to be it was disgusting and even after
04:47that it was i was texting with a buddy that was in the stands watching it and i text him
04:53middle of
04:54the seventh inning just the start of the seventh inning i'm like hey man like the first game he's
04:59been to in years yeah you you picked the one that they are playing the best that they've played in
05:06six weeks to two months and he texts me back yeah two worst teams in american league right now
05:11something had to give and then it did and you think i'm i'm a kind of a positive guy right
05:17glass half full glass half full this is what the tigers have done to me my response to him they're
05:24up six four they're in the middle of the seventh i text him i hate to be the one to
05:30say it but it
05:31ain't over and we know they can blow some games and then the eighth inning happened and he says
05:39boy you were right because you've watched this team it's it's a nightly experience for us and i
05:46know people have said i even had a guy last night say why are you watching this i can't get
05:52enough it's
05:52a car wreck it's it's it's it's a car crash it's it's if you're on your way into work right
05:58now
05:58everybody stops and looks you can't look away how are they going to screw this up becomes the
06:03nightly watch i wasn't in but i'm sure you guys discussed kenley jansen yep jansen's fault what was
06:09thanks for saying that um what's worse and there's one that's clear i know that that pitch cost them
06:18that game what was worse to you matt veerling and his lackadaisical lazy effort
06:29costing the tigers at least one run or kenley jansen two outs oh two count going middle middle to a
06:37hitter that is batting 190 it's veerling yeah it's veerling because it's effort you know i mean
06:45jansen missed the pitch it's unacceptable it's it's such a gimme pitch but i wouldn't call it lack of
06:51effort no it's there's nothing more disgusting than the lack of effort i mean look it's it's true in any
06:57sports town but i know how detroit is if you're gonna walk down the bases if you're gonna casually
07:03field the ball in center field and then multiple hops to get it to second base meanwhile they're
07:10sending the runner matt earth to veerling get on planet earth how do you not pull him from that game
07:18how does aj not stand up on on you know ten toes tall and say enough i don't care if
07:24i have to go play
07:25center field i will put a pitcher in center field i know we don't have very many options we aren't
07:30allowing that we'll lose this game with anybody but veerling in center field after watching that
07:35you know what i'm saying yeah oh yeah hey they lose the game anyway at least prove a point
07:41and now if you look at this series they're going to face their best pitcher soriano today and then
07:45flaherty throws in game three they might be swept by the angels just when you think like hey the colton
07:51cows are thinking that's a new low right just you wait stick around wait another 24 48 hours the
07:58tigers the 2026 tigers will deliver don't you worry can we just bring up the maxes max out
08:07clark anderson yeah just just let's let's max out i believe it's called max maxing yeah max maxing
08:14yes let's go mad full mad max bring up the maxes let's see what we got if there's a max
08:19in the metro
08:19detroit area that that has ever played baseball find your way to comerica park later today yeah
08:25it's just it's it's it's hard to believe that they can invent and find so many ways to give away
08:36games yeah that's what it is because a lot of this has been a power outage right the offense hasn't
08:40shown up hasn't come to play scored six runs even paris it's a home run scored six runs it's defense
08:48it's bullpen it's something it's not it's always something 248 539 97 97 you tell us what was the
08:55worst part of a disgusting baseball game it could be torque it could be the bullpen it could be vest
08:59it could be hinge it could be verling it could be perez it could be his instagram stories i don't
09:03know
09:03why does that bother me so much it bothers me five instagram stories celebrating and pimping your home
09:09run when your team loses to the angels and you are part of the blunder in the eighth like no
09:14self-awareness
09:18it's so could you imagine a teammate does that you guys lose you guys lose he gives up a sack
09:24in the
09:24fourth quarter and he's posting his pancake highlight for everybody to see look how good i am oh you mean
09:30like losing and being on a losing team and your running back shows up as a clown on wednesdays for
09:34media sure i i could i could relate you have any experience with that yeah uh-huh when so paris
09:40may as
09:40well put a clown nose on his face when he when he posted that to his instagram story stupid 248
09:45539 97 97 it's 97 1
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