01:14God, let it end, please.
01:16I beg of you.
01:18Please.
01:20Take me now.
01:21I'm ready to meet you.
01:22I mean, you know, they didn't lose the series.
01:25No, they did.
01:25They tie.
01:26When you split with the Royals, you lose.
01:30And they should have lost Thursday.
01:32But again, the Royals had brain dead backup manager leaving, you know, this guy throwing
01:37frisbees up there instead of bringing in Lynch, the lefty.
01:40Whatever.
01:40It doesn't matter.
01:41I can't take any more.
01:41It's a reason why they're dead last.
01:46Can't take any more.
01:47Can this be it?
01:49Like, please.
01:50Can this be it?
01:51Even if you're one of these people who eternally walks around gripping their own nuts because
01:56you're such a homer for this team.
01:57Can this be it?
01:58Please.
01:59Please.
02:00Can you do me a kindness?
02:03Pretend I'm one of the starving dogs in an oil drum with Sarah McLachlan playing in the
02:07background.
02:08Can you do me a kindness for a penny a day?
02:10You can set this radio host free.
02:15Please.
02:17Please.
02:19Well, please.
02:22Please.
02:23Alpha Phi Alpha.
02:24Please.
02:25In the words of the late, great.
02:28Well, he's not dead, but he's gone.
02:31Steve Eisenman.
02:32No.
02:33And no.
02:36You said the late, great.
02:39I mean, what do you want me to say?
02:43Three and a half and six.
02:45Remember those numbers.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Okay.
02:47I remembered them.
02:49We got a chance, buddy.
02:51There's a shot at getting this done.
02:55And some feel if you sell, you're doing your team and your fan base a disservice.
03:01Who says that?
03:02Because you're so close.
03:03Who says that?
03:04Apparently, this is how the Tigers feel.
03:06Well, no, no.
03:06That's because they're busy smelling their own brand.
03:10Okay.
03:11This is more of this.
03:12I'm telling you, 2024 is like someone hitting the lottery.
03:18And it wasn't enough to retire, but they believe they can do it again.
03:22Like this organization has got to stop with that.
03:25The 2024 thing was a Pixar movie.
03:28This bullpen blows.
03:30This offense still can go through long swats of being trash.
03:37They got to stop.
03:382024 cannot be in your thought process.
03:42It might be.
03:43I'm telling you it's wrong for it.
03:45Oh, no, it absolutely is.
03:46It's got to stop.
03:48Everything is based upon 2024 because no matter what, you can look at everybody in that clubhouse
03:53and say, hey, remember, everybody wrote us off.
03:56Yeah.
03:56And you sold at the deadline in 24.
04:00Correct.
04:00So you could still have your cake and eat it too.
04:03Like if you're Michigan's AD, you can have it all.
04:06No, that's he's right.
04:09You know, wasn't it nice?
04:11The audio wasn't working at the Regents meeting, but they weren't going to talk athletics
04:15like 10 minutes after the meeting.
04:16They signed Ward's out package.
04:18What are you talking about?
04:19Okay.
04:19It was the AV department at the hotel.
04:21They screwed up.
04:22Or greater life.
04:23All right.
04:24So let.
04:26Was it a Steelers game on?
04:31Look, I'd like to hear from Tiger fans because here's what I would like to just say.
04:35Like, hey, you do whatever you want.
04:37I told you, I'll get back from Saratoga and I'll know whether to go all in or just pretend
04:42you never existed.
04:43Cool by me.
04:45But do you want the text message when nothing happens?
04:49Oh, no.
04:49I'll then.
04:50Then I'll know because I know you'll be enjoying yourself and the honeys and your family and,
04:55you know, showering big G with losing tickets.
04:57I get that poor man.
04:59I know I don't need.
05:01I'll know.
05:02Oh, nothing happened if I don't get a hundred texts and that's fine.
05:06But I want to ask the people this because this is the biggest thing to me.
05:10Did this weekend break you?
05:13Like, is that it for you?
05:15Because ultimately the next six games.
05:19Oh, and by the way, the A's just lost Langoliers.
05:22So there goes the best catcher in baseball and another all-star you don't have to face.
05:25Look, your bullpen sucks.
05:28Your offense largely sucks.
05:31I can't do this anymore.
05:33Like, isn't it time to let go of the rope?
05:36I'm asking you.
05:37Because, again, what are your odds of being a player?
05:4130%?
05:42You want a one-in-three shot?
05:45I'll give you a one-in-three shot.
05:46Okay, about 30.
05:47All right, so risk-reward time.
05:50Your risk is two of every three scenarios we play out in this war game,
05:54you don't make the playoffs, and you lose Scoobble for largely nothing
05:59because you can't add anything.
06:01Luxury tax.
06:02Comp pick goes to fourth round.
06:05The only thing I care about is Scott Harris being forced to do his effing job,
06:10doing exactly what he didn't do at the deadline last year.
06:12And we get to find out what kind of man we got running this team
06:15because this is big boy stuff.
06:18This isn't easy.
06:19This is supposed to be what you're paid to do.
06:23You're correct.
06:24Everything, as you said, is right.
06:25Can't argue with it, Mike.
06:28But I think they're willing to risk it all,
06:30push their chips in the middle of the table for that one-in-three chance.
06:34Okay, then they are the...
06:35If that were the case, you're going to do a hypothetical?
06:38I'd like to hypothetically say they'd be the dumbest people on the planet
06:43because they can't buy.
06:45Hear me when I say it.
06:46They can't buy.
06:48They will obliterate the luxury tax
06:51and destroy the return on Scoobal from a first-round comp pick to a fourth.
06:56They cannot.
06:57Oh, you think you're going to keep Scoobal and buy?
06:59No, you're not.
07:00No, you're not.
07:01You can't.
07:03So then Harris would have to do the double down.
07:06I'm going to make three trades to get rid of money,
07:10then go back and start to rebuild this god-awful bullpen.
07:16Again, let me give you door number three.
07:17Door number three...
07:18Can it be a trap door, please?
07:20It's not a trap door.
07:22Door number three, very similar to how you say,
07:24okay, this team is still fixated on two years ago
07:28and how they came from nothing and made the playoffs and won a series.
07:32Let's combo meal that with probably not going to be playing baseball next year anyway,
07:37so let's just go forward, just throw caution to the wind,
07:43and we'll figure this thing out later because...
07:45No, no, no.
07:46That's...
07:46No.
07:46No, no.
07:47Because there's no pressure on anybody.
07:49If Harris fails, he ain't getting fired.
07:51If you keep Scoobal and miss the playoffs, he should be fired.
07:54Okay.
07:55A big difference between should and is.
07:57We've seen a lot of things in this town that people who should have been fired
08:00never got fired.
08:02Should have made move, didn't make move.
08:03The last piece to this, I will say, there is no world Tarek Scoobal can take the mound Wednesday.
08:09None.
08:10I'll say it to you again.
08:13Anything goes wrong Wednesday.
08:15Anything.
08:16Anything.
08:17He's untradeable.
08:19You cannot pitch him.
08:20You have risked it long enough.
08:22You've held long enough.
08:24It's July 27th.
08:26I don't care what you got to do.
08:27It could be the dinner at Wedding Crashers.
08:29You put eye drops in his coffee.
08:31You do whatever it takes to turn him into Bradley Cooper and he doesn't take the mound.
08:35You can't pitch him Wednesday.
08:37You cannot.
08:38The risk is too great.
08:40Anything goes wrong.
08:42And now, that chess piece is removed from the board.
08:45He should be traded today or tomorrow or you just scratch the start Wednesday and you get it done.
08:52If he takes the mound Wednesday, which is an afternoon game, my head will explode.
08:56I mean, baseball's weird.
08:58You saw it the other day.
09:00Line drive off the Cubs pitcher.
09:01Dead.
09:02I remember one year, Roy Halladay on a line drive broke his leg.
09:07It doesn't have to be a UCL or a shoulder thing or an elbow thing.
09:12Anything can happen.
09:13You cannot pitch Scoobal Wednesday, Rico.
09:16They held.
09:17They're sitting here six under.
09:19They just split with the Royals.
09:21That's a loss.
09:22I don't want to hear it.
09:24You can't use the next five games to determine the next five years of your franchise.
09:29That's idiocy.
09:30It is.
09:31Idiocy.
09:31I can't stop you.
09:32Everything you said is correct.
09:34But.
09:34Let me just tell you.
09:36Everything.
09:37But.
09:37Did you see how well he just pitched on Friday night?
09:41Oh, yeah.
09:42And I also caught the audio after the game.
09:44He had every opportunity to say, I want to be here long term.
09:48Didn't.
09:49Oh, I don't believe everything you hear.
09:51Okay.
09:52What should we believe?
09:53Your agent quoting nursery rhymes.
09:55I mean, we can do this all day.
09:57Tarek's bad at talking.
09:59Stop talking.
10:00You're not good at this.
10:01You're great at pitching.
10:03Why don't we stick to that?
10:05Because it boils down to, I really need everybody to like me, even though I'm probably going to be here
10:11temporarily.
10:12Quit misquoting me.
10:14Tarek, we're only quoting the things that you say.
10:16We're not misquoting you.
10:18You're the source.
10:19Okay.
10:19So.
10:20Do you want to be here?
10:21I didn't say that.
10:22What are we doing?
10:23Right.
10:23And for all the people who go, what do you want him to do?
10:26He's asked questions.
10:27Simple.
10:28Guys, I'm not talking tonight.
10:30Sue pulled it off over a five-year period.
10:32Anytime the Lions lost, you'd go in the locker room and guess what was it?
10:35Guess what was there?
10:36An empty chair.
10:38Players of this stature get to choose when to talk and when not to talk.
10:41I don't want to hear it.
10:42He doesn't have to talk.
10:43Guys, I'm not talking.
10:44I've talked enough.
10:44I'm talked out.
10:45Or you throw it back on the team.
10:47Are you going to be here next year?
10:48That really depends on what the Tigers step up and do.
10:50Or you could say what Kevin Gausman said.
10:52I want to be here.
10:53I don't want to be traded.
10:54But those decisions are out of my hands.
10:56Like, that's it.
10:58The bottom line is, all this guy's done is talk.
11:00No more talk.
11:01Don't want to hear it.
11:02And by the way, Gausman has a contract.
11:04So, that's not the same thing.
11:06I digress.
11:072-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
11:09Did this weekend mark the end for you with the Tigers' Hope Brigade?
11:14And do you agree with me?
11:16He can't pitch Wednesday.
11:18Friday had to be his final start in a Tiger uniform.
11:21Had to be.
11:23If he pitches Wednesday, that's malpractice.
11:27Unless you're just keeping him.
11:30There, Rico gave himself a bell ring.
11:3397-1.
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