00:00Tigers have won eight of nine.
00:03Three and a half back of a wild card,
00:05four and a half back in the division as you wake up this morning.
00:08Win two of three this weekend going to the All-Star break,
00:11and it means they would shave ten games off their low point
00:17going into the All-Star break, Stoney.
00:20Now, the moment last night was Eduardo Valencia.
00:23Oh, it was unbelievable.
00:24It's just the teams feel good.
00:25That's a feel-good moment.
00:26Everybody's loving it.
00:27We asked in the cookie jar for some of your most emotional moments
00:31watching sports or emotional moments you've seen others have while they play
00:35because for him, that's a long time coming.
00:40Guys, the U.S. Olympic hockey team beating the Soviets.
00:44Oh, yes, absolutely.
00:461980.
00:47Ernie Harwell's address to the fans from home plate after announcing he had cancer.
00:51I'm still crying.
00:53Darren in a truck.
00:56Emotional moment?
00:57When the Lions drafted Gibbs, the only reason I say it,
01:00I was jumping up and down in my living room because I called
01:02they would take him a month beforehand.
01:04Todd in a car.
01:06That's emotional?
01:07Wow.
01:07I mean, I think a lot of fans have the opposite emotional reaction.
01:11I'm running back.
01:12It's worked out.
01:13Yes.
01:14Michael Jordan's first championship of the second three-peat
01:20after the gambling suspension that ended up getting his dad murdered
01:23because of gambling debts when he was crying on the ground,
01:26dedicating the wind to his dad touching moment.
01:28All that allegedly.
01:30Yes.
01:30Yes.
01:35Says D Gordon's a good one.
01:37Costa note that everyone was wearing the Jose Fernandez jerseys for that game.
01:41And he starts that game in the first inning with a home run.
01:44Foods you don't want to eat before competing.
01:47White Castle.
01:48Oh, yeah.
01:49That would be tough.
01:51Says hockey players will eat spaghetti three hours before games.
01:54What's wrong with lasagna?
01:55Yeah.
01:56And he's a golfer.
01:57He's a golfer.
01:58Come on, Sergio.
01:59Says lasagna is a dinner food, maybe by tradition,
02:01but practically it should be a lunch food.
02:03The last thing you want is a ton of calories to burn before going to bed,
02:06Steve and Livonia.
02:07Well, you're not eating your dinner right before you go to bed.
02:10No.
02:11Look, there are people who claim the healthiest way would be to have your
02:15biggest meal in the middle of the day.
02:16Correct.
02:17But that's not how we practically live our lives.
02:19Most people are at work in the middle of the day.
02:21They're not doing their biggest meal.
02:23Right.
02:23Some people, yeah, lunch is some people's, some culture's biggest meal.
02:27Yeah.
02:27That's correct.
02:28Yeah.
02:28And I think you can make the case it should be.
02:30It's just, it's not here.
02:32Right.
02:33So lasagna and don't do it at 10 PM at night,
02:35but if you have a reasonable dinner, you can still digest it.
02:37You can go for a walk, do what you got to do.
02:38Right.
02:39Maybe that's why we're more obese than other nations.
02:42I think there's something to that.
02:45The best tropical drink, simple rum and pineapple juice.
02:49Rum is the tropical liquor for sure.
02:52Pineapple juice goes perfect.
02:53Simple.
02:53Don't fix what ain't broke.
02:55Okay.
02:55A classic rum punch is my go-to tropical drink when I'm in Florida
02:59after a long winter.
03:00Unnamed texter.
03:03Food you don't want to eat before.
03:05When I was a freshman playing college baseball,
03:07coach got mad at all the starters.
03:09So he decided to start a bunch of freshmen for the second game.
03:11I wish I knew that before downing four hot dogs between games.
03:15Never saw the field again that season.
03:17Wow.
03:18All right.
03:20I don't, you know, can't eat those dogs before you get that, that Gates Brown story and all
03:26that stuff where he had, you know, had a dog in his uniform and all that kind of crap.
03:31Anyway, we'll keep collecting some of the emotional sports moments.
03:34I think that could be fun today, but let's talk about the Tigers a little more.
03:37Yeah.
03:38So.
03:39Oh, I thought you wanted to talk about the draft.
03:42You have a mock draft for the baseball draft on Saturday?
03:44Come on.
03:45Yeah.
03:46I like the catcher out of Georgia Tech.
03:48I was just checking Keith law of the, the athletic has the Tigers taking left-handed
03:53pitcher, Carson Bowman from a South side Christian school in Simpsonville, South Carolina, lefty
04:02pitcher out of a high school.
04:04All right.
04:04Grade the picks, Tony.
04:06I'm going to give it a C because I've never seen him play.
04:09I was going to say, let's not, let's not go too far down this rabbit hole.
04:13Lose everybody.
04:14I don't know.
04:14It's me bitching about Iserman and Larkin for a half hour.
04:17Or us spending time on.
04:18No, I just, I just mentioned it as a joke.
04:20Oh, no, I'm good.
04:21Well, they're going to take a shortstop from high school.
04:22There you go.
04:23After they've done the last two, right?
04:26Yeah.
04:26They took a Yost.
04:27Yeah.
04:27Was the pick last year, right?
04:28And Bryce Rainier.
04:30Yeah.
04:30Who, by the way, had a big day the other night.
04:32Yes, he did.
04:32Yeah.
04:33Vaughn Lackey is the Georgia Tech catcher I was referring to.
04:35He won't be there.
04:36He'll be in the top five.
04:37Oh, look, I'm listening to you.
04:38You know your stuff.
04:39Well, I couldn't think of his name, but yeah, I perused this stuff.
04:42I'm a loser.
04:44The Tigers.
04:45The Tigers have Eduardo Valencia.
04:48That's a drop.
04:49That's a drop.
04:49That's a drop.
04:50I don't peruse this stuff.
04:51I'm a loser.
04:53By the way, Keith Law has him second going to the Rays.
04:55Well, there you go.
04:56Good for Tampa.
04:59Are you buying back in?
05:02No.
05:03No.
05:03No, I'm having fun.
05:05I'd rather them play well.
05:07Make some things more enjoyable.
05:09But no, look, if they went two out of three and chop another two games off that, you
05:14know, lead and things like that, going to the all-star break and then playing a good
05:17team this weekend, then I'll say, you know what?
05:19There's a good, there's a decent chance.
05:23So Jansen comes back Monday and I wonder if he's going to come back and try to be the first
05:29believer of this baseball team because no one on this show has taken the leap yet.
05:33You know, they've been real good since the start of June, best team in the AL, but no
05:37one on this show has taken the leap to say that they believe that they're bought back
05:41in.
05:42Yeah.
05:42And I actually think if they win two out of three against the Phillies, no major injuries,
05:48good sound pitching still going.
05:50I think I might buy in on Monday.
05:53You could be the first.
05:53Cause I just think that the fact that they shaved 10 games off in 42 days to maybe only
05:59six under, it's kind of a good, like, wow, we just did this.
06:03They've been talking publicly, especially school ball about, we got to do this and we got to
06:07do it now.
06:07Right.
06:08Kind of got lost in the headlines of him and talking about the deadline and all that.
06:11But they've got a little mojo going the, the pitching, the starting.
06:16And I think Valdez was Valencia was a cool thing that happened last night.
06:20The biggest thing that came out of last night was that Valdez looked like the guy they signed
06:23him to be.
06:24Absolutely.
06:24There's no doubt about it.
06:25And look, he's, even if he has two out of every three starts similar to that, that's
06:31good.
06:31I mean, he's not going to be your ace, your Cy Young candidate, so to speak.
06:37But if he can be, maybe even not as good as he was last night, but if he can be
06:40good
06:41two out of every three starts, that's pretty, that's pretty good.
06:45He had been the only one that was dead weight lately.
06:47Oh yeah.
06:48Because even Flaherty had started to pick it up and Valdez is the highest paid pitcher.
06:51Right.
06:53Last night, seven innings shut out baseball.
06:55He gave up three hits, right?
06:57Three or four hits, nine strikeouts.
07:00I don't think he had a walk.
07:01He hit a couple of batters.
07:02Right.
07:03But from the jump, I started listening on the radio and he strikes out the side and they're
07:07highlighting, boy, he just hasn't had enough swing and miss this season.
07:10Like this is the worst year he's had swing and miss in his career.
07:13And there's more fly ball than ground ball.
07:15It's just all the wrong indicators for him.
07:16His, him at his best, he's pitching down in the zone.
07:19He's getting ground balls.
07:20He's getting swing and miss strikes out the side in the first.
07:23Then I'm watching a little later.
07:24And Dierks made the point, his curve ball swing and misses way down.
07:28His curve ball was good last night and it unlocks a little more of what he does.
07:31Cause he could throw it when he's thrown it to lefties and righties and it's that looper
07:35and it can throw off the hitters timing.
07:38All of a sudden there's the swing and miss that makes Valdez, not, not a one on this
07:42staff cause of Scooble, but, but one of these guys that you can give the ball to and go
07:45and just cruise.
07:47What do you mean, Jimmy?
07:48Oakland or Oakland, the athletics are, they're not a very good offensive team.
07:52I don't care.
07:52I don't care.
07:53I don't care in terms of buying back in.
07:55It's a question we ask you guys and we'll, we'll discuss it amongst ourselves.
07:58Two, four, eight, five, three, nine, 97, 97.
08:01Stoney says, no, not yet.
08:02Tom says not yet, but maybe with this, this weekend, it's not silly that, but it just went
08:07two out of three more games.
08:08You're playing a good team, right?
08:09They're going against two really good pitchers.
08:12And I just think to get to, to have that positive vibe going into the break, they're going
08:17to kind of sit there and, you know, wipe their hands and say mission accomplished.
08:21Like we did what we needed to do to get back into this.
08:25They should be feeling good.
08:26They've got a little bit of mojo going to them.
08:27I guess the best way I can say this is I think they're playing September baseball right now
08:31and other teams aren't.
08:33Now, is that sustainable?
08:35No, I don't think this version is who they really are, but they needed this to counteract
08:39May, who they also aren't really.
08:41I mean, they're not that bad.
08:43So they needed this to counteract it.
08:45It's funny.
08:46I don't want to get too caught up in like last night was such a fun night.
08:49I don't want to come in today and say, I'm on board because if they lose two or three
08:53to the Phillies, one of the all-star break, they're going to be eight under 500.
08:57We're going to go, well, okay, still, still more work to be done.
09:00No, then you're going to come in Monday or Friday and say, well, they just go 72 in this
09:05next stretch.
09:06I'm sick of doing that.
09:07That's kind of why I'm saying this.
09:08Running out of time.
09:09Yeah.
09:09We're running out of time.
09:10They have done just enough to give themselves a realistic chance in the playoff.
09:15The playoff odds indicate that they are above 33% now, right?
09:19I would assume so, yeah.
09:20Sounds like Greg has a point he wants to make.
09:24We can work that in the eight o'clock hour here.
09:262-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
09:29You bought back in.
09:30It's 97-1.
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