00:00Wins in a row for the Tigers.
00:02They won a series.
00:04They won a series.
00:05They won a series.
00:08Good morning, 97.1 Jim Costa.
00:10Stoney, we got Heather, we got Greg,
00:12we got Gov behind the glass.
00:13We are ready to roll on a Wednesday.
00:15We actually have a power surge today.
00:18Ooh.
00:19No, John, but a Stoney power surge
00:21taking inventory of the top teams in the NFL.
00:24John's going to be pissed at me.
00:25You're encroaching on his territory.
00:27Well, a couple blockbuster trades while he's gone fishing.
00:29Yeah, exactly.
00:30So you'll place everything as it should be.
00:33We're under 100 days to the start of the NFL season,
00:36which means 100 bold predictions.
00:38We won't go through all 100,
00:39but 8 to 10 of them do that at 635.
00:43Let's start with the Tigers.
00:45What do you make of this?
00:46That's their best back-to-back offensive output of the season.
00:5018 runs.
00:51They've hit eight homers in the month of June
00:54after 18 in all of May.
00:57Torres back, cart back,
00:59offense back, season back?
01:03Did you just say season back?
01:05With a question mark at the end.
01:06Oh, okay.
01:06Let's make sure.
01:08Something or nothing, Stoney.
01:10Well, defining something is,
01:13I think once they get healthy,
01:15they might end up around 500 maybe.
01:20So it's a little something.
01:22But do I think this is a World Series team?
01:26Hell no.
01:27I didn't think so a month ago.
01:30I don't think so now.
01:31And the other thing is,
01:32I know it's cliche.
01:33I sound like Brad Ausmus,
01:35but it's baseball.
01:37I mean,
01:38he played 162 games,
01:39even like the Tigers have been.
01:41I'm not saying they still are,
01:43but even the crappiest teams go on win streaks
01:46and go on binges that you can't imagine.
01:49I mean,
01:49your boy Wenzel Perez,
01:50what's that?
01:51Four home runs since your little,
01:53you know,
01:54chat,
01:54spat war,
01:55whatever you want to call it,
01:56Twitter war with the Tigers admin people.
01:59I mean,
02:00this is crazy.
02:01They also,
02:02last night,
02:03I mean,
02:03how old is Steven Matz?
02:04Like 55?
02:05I know he's only 35,
02:07but yeah.
02:08I mean,
02:08they haven't faced anybody great pitching wise.
02:11Tampa does have the best record in the American League at one point.
02:16I don't know if they still do or not,
02:17but they're right there.
02:18So they beat a really good team on the road
02:21in the first two games of series.
02:23And yeah,
02:24first game back for Torres.
02:26Nice.
02:26Absolutely.
02:27The Rays did have the best record in the American League
02:30and still do have the best record in the American League.
02:33So look,
02:34it's,
02:34but this happens all the time.
02:36I mean,
02:37everybody always,
02:38oh,
02:38we're not the 27.
02:39Well,
02:40the 27 Yankees,
02:41I'm sure went through a stretch where they lost a couple of games in a row.
02:45And I'm sure the 62 Mets,
02:47you know,
02:48and the 03 Tigers,
02:49I'm sure they went through a stretch where they won a couple of games in a row.
02:52So I am being cautiously optimistic,
02:56but I don't think nothing's going to happen.
02:59So the Rays have been playing a lot of small ball this year,
03:01and that's why they've been successful.
03:02A small ball team would have absolutely torn the Tigers apart.
03:06And so far in this series,
03:08they haven't,
03:08they almost did on Monday night,
03:09but yeah,
03:10they held on.
03:11And you know what?
03:12We were talking before the show,
03:13and this will be fun to play out over the next couple of weeks.
03:16If they continue to surge here,
03:18I don't know if you can say this is a surge yet.
03:20Not yet.
03:21Not yet.
03:21It's pleasantly surprising.
03:23Yes.
03:23You know what?
03:23The team was boring as heck.
03:25And at least for two nights,
03:26it's been fun.
03:27Absolutely.
03:27I've listened to some of the radio and watched some of the rest of it.
03:30And it's just been kind of from what it was.
03:33It's like,
03:34okay,
03:34well,
03:34we said last week that they're really not this bad,
03:37but to get back in it.
03:39So the thing we're going to do is if they kind of start to make a move here,
03:43who's the first one on the show that ends up biting.
03:46I'm nowhere near that.
03:47Yeah.
03:48It's funny.
03:48Cause Greg pointed to you immediately.
03:51It's going to,
03:52it's my 500 rule.
03:53There's still 14 games under 500.
03:56I mean,
03:56that is such a hole.
03:57It's the difference from 2024.
04:00When it was eight,
04:01when they made their move on August 12th,
04:03right?
04:04That's more time to make up.
04:06I started biting when they were a few under 500 and they still had some
04:09ground to make up,
04:10but me and you,
04:12I think you kind of almost bought on the little league,
04:14the little league classic against the Yankees,
04:16a turning point,
04:17especially looking back.
04:18Like I joked yesterday,
04:20they still need upwards of 60 wins to make this a real playoff team,
04:24which is a daunting task,
04:26even with a hundred games to go.
04:28So of course,
04:30I'm not going to suddenly do a flip and say,
04:35this team's good.
04:35It's eyebrow raising.
04:37That's what I would say this morning.
04:38It's eyebrow raising.
04:39You get Torres back immediately hits a Homer.
04:42You get cart back.
04:43He had a Homer the day before.
04:45Hmm.
04:45Eyebrow raising.
04:47Flaherty pitched really well last day for him.
04:49You want him to go six,
04:51but he went five,
04:52five hits,
04:53only two walks.
04:55And DeJesus had his best performance as a tiger,
04:57right?
04:58Four innings.
04:58Didn't give up a hit.
04:59Is that the first win of the year for Flaherty?
05:01I believe it is.
05:02Yeah.
05:02And Hey,
05:04Zach short was two for three.
05:06I didn't think he should have even been in the ball club,
05:08but that's a whole other.
05:08You would have kept how you leave.
05:09So the number of the day on the show is what?
05:13What is the number on the day?
05:16What?
05:16100,
05:17100 days to the NFL,
05:19100 bold predictions.
05:20We're going to talk about some of those later.
05:22Yeah.
05:23Tie it to the lions.
05:25There's 100 games left in the baseball season.
05:27Yep.
05:2860 and 40.
05:30Yeah.
05:30That's you to 84 wins.
05:32I've been saying 86.
05:33So 62 of the next a hundred does.
05:36I don't want to split hairs on it.
05:37It's,
05:37it's daunting.
05:38They did this to themselves.
05:40It's daunting and it's daunting and possible.
05:42The problem,
05:43you know,
05:44because I'm such a pessimist,
05:46what I don't want to happen is them get really interesting and cause the brain
05:53trust or the brain that I don't trust to make the big decisions August 3rd or
06:00before for the deadline.
06:01Well,
06:02I don't want them to be seduced by this unless they,
06:05you know,
06:05run,
06:06go,
06:06you know,
06:0630 and 10 or some crazy stuff.
06:08Stuff like that.
06:11Not everything's black and white,
06:12but to me,
06:13this is,
06:13if you're not buying,
06:14you're selling.
06:15Oh yeah.
06:16So if you don't think you can chase a world series,
06:18Tarek Scoople can't be here.
06:20You're correct.
06:20So,
06:21so I,
06:21I share your concern.
06:23Concern the question.
06:25Let's say that they do get within striking distance.
06:28They're four or five games below 500 or,
06:31or whatever.
06:33Unless you're buying.
06:35Like if you're going to be that delusional to think you can climb all the way back
06:37in,
06:38you buy,
06:38buy,
06:39yes,
06:39buy then add.
06:40Yeah.
06:41And if you're not going to,
06:42you sell,
06:43then Scoople has to go.
06:44Well,
06:44Scoople and others.
06:45Yes.
06:46But him,
06:46he's the most.
06:47Yes.
06:48Yes.
06:49If you're not going to buy,
06:50then you have to sell.
06:51Cause sometimes teams get in the in-between.
06:53Well,
06:53I just want to let this team see what happens.
06:56Right?
06:56No.
06:57Well,
06:57it could be catastrophic because your warts are your warts.
07:00And if you lose these guys for nothing,
07:01Scoople specifically,
07:02it's going to kill you.
07:03Right.
07:03They do not need to be seduced by a full winning month.
07:10Let's say.
07:10Right.
07:11Oh,
07:11look,
07:12what was their record in May?
07:14Six and something.
07:16Okay.
07:16So they're two and whatever.
07:18I don't know how many games they have left in June,
07:19but if they have a June,
07:20the complete opposite of may call it 22 and six.
07:23So,
07:24you know,
07:25they'll be in a hunt for the wild card.
07:28That's for damn sure.
07:29Yes.
07:30Well,
07:30then you can start to have different conversations.
07:32And you have all of July to figure that out.
07:34Yeah.
07:35They would be 500 at that point.
07:38Right.
07:38Cause they were 22 and 38.
07:41Yeah.
07:41I guess what we're saying is if they're going to do it,
07:43then do it.
07:44Right.
07:45Like don't half ass it here.
07:47Yeah.
07:48But like,
07:49don't half ass it.
07:49Don't get within five games and then kind of play footsie at the
07:52deadline and do it or do it.
07:54Don't,
07:54I mean,
07:55sell or,
07:56or truly get all the way back into this and no,
07:58they can't get all the way back into it in early June.
08:01Yeah.
08:01But I think what you saw the last couple of nights is what we need to
08:03see.
08:04Yeah.
08:04An offense that comes alive and puts up a bunch of runs.
08:06And people will start to get more.
08:09Well,
08:09I consider faux hope because Verlander allegedly looked pretty good last
08:14night.
08:15From what I read in,
08:16in,
08:16in Toledo,
08:17Scooble has been really good in simulated games.
08:21You know,
08:22you got Troy Melton going today.
08:24There's 1.4 ERA and is what?
08:26Two starts.
08:27I believe he has.
08:28So you're sitting there saying,
08:29Hmm,
08:30Hmm.
08:31I'm not,
08:32I'm not there yet.
08:32I'm sorry.
08:33None of us are.
08:34No,
08:35but Tom's question was which member of the show will be the first to buy
08:38back in.
08:38And if they rattle off like five of six or six of 10.
08:42Yeah.
08:42It'd be interesting on Monday if,
08:44uh,
08:44whether they lose today or lose one to the Mariners,
08:46but it's a five or six stretch.
08:48And that would make them 11 under as we,
08:50it's still,
08:51if you're double digits under 500,
08:52I'm just speaking for myself.
08:54I can't imagine.
08:54I come in on Monday.
08:55No,
08:57John,
08:58because he didn't experience last week.
09:00No,
09:00he comes in oblivious.
09:02We got revenge on the team that we,
09:05you know,
09:05lost to in the,
09:06in the playoffs that Mariners are playing some really,
09:08really good baseball right now.
09:10I believe they actually lead the American league West out of nowhere.
09:13Uh,
09:14and yeah,
09:14and if they would win a series or dare I say,
09:17sweep Seattle this weekend,
09:18which was the team when the slide occurred last year,
09:22it started scuba on a Friday night,
09:23lost the game.
09:25Uh,
09:25they played awful.
09:26The rest of this,
09:27that series,
09:28then there was the all-star break and all hell break loose after that.
09:31Well,
09:31and then they lost to him in the playoffs too.
09:33Yeah.
09:33So it'd be interesting.
09:35This team,
09:35I'll say one thing.
09:37They're the streakiest team in the league.
09:38It's over the last three years.
09:40Absolutely ridiculous.
09:41The comeback at the end of 24 blowing the largest division lead in the
09:45history of baseball in 25 digging this hole right now.
09:48And if they were to start to get on a run,
09:53it'd just be another one of those big streaks.
09:54I know it'll be fun,
09:56but you know,
09:57the world doesn't run isn't run by fun.
10:00Some texts coming in to start the show.
10:03The Tigers are only in the wild card conversation.
10:05If they can win about 10 games in a row,
10:07and then we see where they're at.
10:09It's possible.
10:10Keith and Frazier.
10:12Wow.
10:12Big shocker.
10:13They put their major league lineup in and scored runs.
10:16Not sure guys,
10:17you can't figure that out that when the mudhens play,
10:19they can't score.
10:21Well,
10:21that's part of it.
10:22Although McGonagall didn't even play yesterday.
10:24He got an off day.
10:25Why can't you guys ever be honest and say how bad the Tigers really
10:29fricking suck?
10:31Did you listen to the show yesterday or Monday or maybe all last week?
10:36I get you to be honest,
10:37Tony.
10:38Yeah.
10:38How many times did I say the Tigers blow yesterday?
10:42Whoa,
10:42whoa,
10:43whoa.
10:43I mean,
10:43seriously,
10:44I'm pretty sure we did a pretty gruesome autopsy this week.
10:47Yes.
10:48I mean,
10:49come on in the past week and two weeks.
10:51You know,
10:52Costa's gotten to a,
10:53a war,
10:55social media war with the Tigers.
10:57That's not exactly being all sunshine.
10:59Why can't you guys be honest and say this team sucks?
11:02Okay.
11:03I want to be honest.
11:03I'm give me my,
11:04my Bible.
11:05I,
11:06Michael stone swear that I think the Tigers stink.
11:10I,
11:11I have to chuckle because I understand that people don't listen four hours a
11:15day,
11:15five days a week,
11:16but I'd have a hard time believing that you've listened to any of the
11:19hosts on any of the shows.
11:21In the last month for more than five minutes and thought,
11:25well,
11:25I wish these guys would be honest about how bad this baseball team is.
11:28It's been a huge conversation.
11:31And only after winning back-to-back games for the first time in a month,
11:34are we even,
11:36I wouldn't even say we're entertaining it.
11:38We're just talking about it.
11:39Yeah.
11:39Two,
11:39four,
11:40eight,
11:40five,
11:40three,
11:40nine,
11:4097,
11:4197.
11:41We'll get to the a hundred bold predictions and some of the,
11:43the highlights of it at six 35.
11:45We'll play true or false.
11:46It's 97 one.
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