00:00Yeah, you know what?
00:00Who else is smoking right now?
00:03The Detroit Tigers.
00:05Detroit Tigers, guys.
00:07Just when you were ready to bury the Tigers,
00:10they go out and they sweep Tampa.
00:13They scored 25 runs in three games.
00:17They put belt to ass to the race.
00:22So now I guess the biggest question is,
00:25did we witness something here or was this just fool's gold?
00:28Was this an emotional fake out?
00:31Or was this, hey, don't let the Tigers get hot.
00:36I have no idea what I just saw.
00:38I have no idea what I just witnessed for the last three days.
00:41But normally when things happen,
00:4520% of the people believe, you know,
00:4920% of the people believe that the Tigers,
00:51they're going to fix this.
00:5220% of the people probably believe the Tigers,
00:55they're a lost cause.
00:57In the middle is the 60%.
00:58And I'm talking to the 60% right now.
01:02You wrote this team off.
01:03I wrote this team off.
01:05David wrote this team off.
01:06Hey, Mike's off right now.
01:08And I know he wrote this team off.
01:10Kenny, I think, still believes a little bit.
01:12I don't know.
01:12No, I've written this team off a while ago.
01:14Okay.
01:15My question to you is this.
01:17Very simple.
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01:21We just witnessed something that I don't think anybody saw coming.
01:25Lord knows this team couldn't beat bad teams.
01:27But they go out and they beat the first place race.
01:31We're top of the, I mean, A.O. East.
01:35They swapped them.
01:36And not just anything.
01:38Like, they went out there and they scored a ton of runs.
01:42Well, Rico.
01:42Troy Melton.
01:44He looked really good.
01:46Did he?
01:46He looks like he's.
01:48Did Scoobble come back and just change his jersey?
01:52In the last 15 games of May.
01:54I knew he didn't know because he pitched eight innings.
01:56You're right about that.
01:57Scoobble doesn't do that.
01:57That was not Scoobble.
01:58In the last 15 games of May, the Detroit Tigers scored 37 runs.
02:02In the first three games of June, they scored 25 runs.
02:09That's three games.
02:11Wow.
02:12Wow.
02:13Amazing.
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02:18The question is this.
02:20What would it take for you to all of a sudden, I guess, unwrite off the Tigers?
02:28Because we wrote them off.
02:29We all did.
02:30We did.
02:31I'm raising my hand.
02:33You're sitting in your car.
02:34You're raising your hand.
02:36You know you did.
02:36You wrote them off.
02:38What would it take?
02:39Because three games is nice.
02:42But three games over the Rays, probably not enough.
02:46What's that magical number?
02:48What's that thing that if all of a sudden this happened?
02:51Look, historically speaking, they were never going to be this bad.
02:54If they kept losing at this rate, they would have set a Major League Baseball record.
03:00So we knew they were going to win games.
03:02But my question to you, where's that point where you say, okay, you know what?
03:12I'm back in.
03:13I'm going to buy in.
03:14I'm going to wait to see what happens.
03:16I need to know what's the number.
03:19Is it they got to win 10 in a row?
03:23Is it I think David talked about pre-show?
03:26They got to flip the month.
03:28If they go, what, 20-5 this month?
03:30Yeah, something like that.
03:31Yep.
03:32David's back in.
03:33What's your buy in?
03:35What's your back in point?
03:37Kenny, you're chomping at the bit.
03:39Yeah, no.
03:40Just point of order real quick.
03:42What do you want the Tigers to accomplish?
03:44What is it that we're waiting for to buy in?
03:47Are we saying make the playoffs?
03:48Are we saying win the division?
03:50To get that last wild card spot or win the division?
03:52Because here's the thing.
03:54It's not like you play in the toughest division.
03:57So as silly as it sounds, you're really not out of the race for the division.
04:02So what's the buy-in factor for you?
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04:11What needs to happen before you say, okay, this may happen.
04:16Because, look, I got some good news and bad news for people.
04:20What would you like first, gentlemen?
04:23I'm a fan of the bad news.
04:25Bad news.
04:26Okay, David went full bad news.
04:28Okay, here is your bad news.
04:31The bad news is I think there's now 99 games left.
04:37Yes.
04:37Let's just include today and make it an even 100.
04:40Okay.
04:40If you went 50-50, you played 500 ball.
04:45Tigers win 50 games.
04:47They lose 50 games.
04:48It will only get you to 74-88.
04:53You'll need to win 62 games in order to get to 86, which may win you a division.
05:00Because I don't think you're going to hit the wild card.
05:02You got to win a division.
05:05That's the bad news.
05:07You want the good news?
05:09Yes.
05:10Here's your good news.
05:12Do you know how many teams in the American League have a winning record?
05:17Currently?
05:18Currently.
05:18It's not a lot.
05:20You got the Yankees.
05:21You got the Rays.
05:22You got the White Sox.
05:25I was going to guess six, maybe five.
05:27I think it's five.
05:28Five teams, which means ten teams have a losing record.
05:33Ten teams are right there with you.
05:36It's a good year to be bad in the American League.
05:39It's a great year to be bad in the American League.
05:41Oh, hold on.
05:42A great year to be bad.
05:44That's something right there.
05:45Which also, by the way, is that not the most frustrating way to look at it?
05:49Because if you think, oh, yeah, they spent all this money on the offseason, if they would
05:52have added bats and maybe spent the money a little differently, then it would have been
05:57a good year to be average in the American League.
06:00So I'm asking that question.
06:03Look, Gleyber Torres has come back.
06:05You are now starting to see some offense when he comes back.
06:09You know, down the line, Scooble will be back.
06:12Like, Verlander went and had a pretty good minor league session.
06:18He may be coming back.
06:20Like, players are going to start trickling back into this lineup.
06:25What's the point where you say, all right, they got me again.
06:29All right, I'm going to take this ride with the Tigers and see where it takes me.
06:35Because we all did, especially this last month.
06:39This month was horrible.
06:40This month was not fun.
06:41There was nothing, absolutely nothing about May that you want to remember, except that
06:47it's over.
06:48So what do you need to see?
06:50For me, I would need to see a lot more games.
06:55I'm not quite to where David is at.
06:58I don't think that the team can go 20-5.
07:02But you know what, David?
07:04And because they dug themselves such a deep hole, I'm going to say, I need to see a turnaround.
07:12And because I'm going to set the bar a little low.
07:16How about that?
07:18Go 8-2.
07:218-2, next 10 games.
07:23Now, you got Seattle, then you got the Twins, and then you have Cleveland.
07:28Those are your next three series.
07:31Is it too much to ask?
07:33You got Seattle here, you got Minnesota here, and you're at Cleveland.
07:36Seattle's hot right now.
07:37So if we include it today, we'll start from today.
07:42Can you go, is it too much to ask to go 7-2?
07:48Because you're in a deep hole.
07:50And I know you're like, well, that's incredible.
07:52Look, guys, we're trying to make the play.
07:54If there's any stretch of them making a playoff, they have to do incredible things.
07:58Because you were god-awful for the month of May.
08:02You put yourself in this spot, you're going to have to do some heroic Herculean.
08:07You're going to need Robert Downey Jr. out there or Chris Evans saying Avengers Assemble.
08:15See, and you're exactly right about that because you brought up the 50, the 100 games, 50 and 50 if
08:20you do that.
08:21So if they have a winning percentage of 60%, that will put them at 84 and 78, which is right
08:27there,
08:28which Baseball Perspective has the final wildcard team at 84.
08:32So you literally couldn't make a mistake.
08:34You would have to have a 60 or 62% winning percentage.
08:39So you're right.
08:40They have to dig themselves out of a humongous hole.
08:43Right.
08:44So look, so that's the question that I'm asking.
08:46They just swept the race, which raise your hand if you saw that happening.
08:51You're a liar.
08:52Put your hand down because you didn't see that happening.
08:55Raise your hand if you saw them scoring 25 runs.
08:58Against the Rays.
09:00I know you don't have your hands up because nobody saw that.
09:03The Tigers had batting practice down in Tampa.
09:08I don't know if this is going to carry over or you can just call up and say, Rico, this
09:12is fool's goals.
09:13Don't do it.
09:14Don't believe it.
09:15I'm telling you, I need to see.
09:19I need to see the next nine games between Seattle, Minnesota, Cleveland.
09:28You go seven and two.
09:31I'll listen to you.
09:32I'll raise the eyebrow and say maybe.
09:35Remember back in April when I was talking about this team and I was like, you know, I don't really
09:39see this.
09:40This thing is going astray.
09:42And people are like, no, it's too early.
09:43The whole Sparky Anderson, you got to wait 40 games.
09:47I'm not seeing it.
09:49You go seven and two in your next nine games.
09:54I now will listen to you.
09:56I'll allow you to plead your case to let me know, okay, maybe this thing could happen.
10:01Because as I said, this is a great year to be bad.
10:04There's only five teams with a winning record currently in the American League.
10:11You just swept one of them.
10:14That means there are 10 teams just like you sitting there.
10:20Trying to battle it out for whatever.
10:23Can you let the Tigers get hot again?
10:26Remember that?
10:27Don't let the Tigers get hot.
10:29Or is this all just a bunch of bula bula?
10:31And you're just like, yeah, Rico, I'm not buying that.
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10:37We'll get your ticket.
10:38I mean, we'll get your text.
10:39We'll get your calls next.
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