00:01excuse me can you play that again okay
00:09all right the fourth scene for next year's drop tournament has just been
00:16revealed sometimes like context bobby what happened with that it was during cross talk
00:24with the morning show and the morning show one of their news pieces what that was there there's
00:28a restaurant in florida that serves people nude dining and it's from where paul sarah is
00:35and so doug said that drop obviously but he
00:43right and then he tried to recant later saying that the sentence afterward no no we're good good
00:49thank you thank you
00:54we'll just leave it right there this should be a one seed for next year
00:58this is the top well it's still we still have 11 months to go dunny is this your guy you
01:04saw
01:05i believe so okay i believe so yes all right richard haddad yes yes the new president of detroit lions
01:12248-539-9797 talk about the tigers and uh are you getting i don't know sucked in you they're fun
01:21to
01:21watch are you looking at them saying all right whatever happens happens i'm cool with it but you
01:26kind of sit there say well you know these some of these guys are coming through that really hadn't
01:30come through before uh they're still going to be a little short on the starting pitching despite
01:35having which looks like a new ace now it's still early in the career but i want to ask you
01:42this
01:42question since earn runs became an official stat in 1913 only one player in major league baseball
01:57history has had an era under two a whip under one his team winning 13 or more wins in his
02:07first 16 starts
02:09and that one player in 1913 and 2026 and 113 years is my math correct is trey is trey mountain
02:21really yeah
02:24hmm that's great stack it's incredible for this year
02:30he's seven and one now i know wins is an overrated stat but okay seven and one
02:35with a 1.58 ERA and a whip of 0.905.
02:44That's good.
02:46Unfortunately, he's not going to be able to have enough starts
02:49to be in Cy Young contention, but man, oh man.
02:54He's been incredible.
02:56It is incredible.
02:57I am one of those people I don't believe that wins is an overrated stat
03:01because if you're winning, that normally means you're pitching well.
03:05But yeah, that's a great pull by you, Stoney.
03:10I didn't realize he was performing at that historic pace.
03:16I mean, he still has some ways to go before we go ahead and crown him.
03:20Right, absolutely.
03:21But you know.
03:22I see now why you were like, is this the next school ball?
03:25I'm like, okay, because I just thought, okay, Stoney,
03:27you're a prisoner of the moment, but I get what you mean.
03:31He's been great all year.
03:322, 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
03:35What do the Tigers mean to you right now?
03:38Are you invested?
03:41Are you entertained?
03:44And do you really think they can pull this 2024, you know, rerun?
03:51Or do you just miss the drama?
03:53Because I don't know.
03:55I mean, maybe people just miss that school ball daily drama.
03:58To me, it's refreshing.
04:00It's fun.
04:02You actually, you care because when school ball was here,
04:07it was just, it felt so temporary.
04:09Like, okay, yes, they're winning, but he's going to leave.
04:13He's going to pull that chair out at any moment.
04:15And now, the chair's gone.
04:17Now, you're getting a glimpse of what the future would look like.
04:21You're seeing the young players as they're starting to develop.
04:24And, hey, you're not that far away from a wild card spot.
04:30Like, when they were, you know, 10 games out and 9 games out,
04:35I'm like, guys, we'll talk about this when you get closer.
04:39They're close.
04:39Well, guess what?
04:40As of this morning, you're close.
04:42Yeah.
04:43With winnable games ahead of you.
04:45Yeah.
04:46That if you can go out there, take this series with Seattle,
04:48there's a team you can leapfrog.
04:50Now you jump ahead of them.
04:53And then you end up with the Giants.
04:55It's like this next couple of games could say a lot for this team
04:59and that final push to the playoff.
05:02It's so crazy, this sport, because, you know, what's to prevent them?
05:06And I don't think it's going to happen, but to go on, like I said,
05:10like similar to 2024, but something like Boston,
05:13what Boston is doing right now.
05:14It's unbelievable.
05:15They were arguably the worst team in the American League East.
05:20And now they've had two months where they're playing, you know,
05:24close to 650.
05:25I mean, it's incredible what they're doing.
05:27They're the hottest team in baseball.
05:30They might even catch, you know, Tampa
05:33and maybe even win the American League East.
05:36But the Tigers are, it's, you know,
05:39what you want out of your summer from your baseball team is just, you know,
05:43to be entertained basically.
05:44And to have a chance,
05:46I think that you have a chance when you get into September.
05:49Well, the way they're playing right now, they have a chance.
05:53Look, obviously after they play San Francisco,
05:56and if they do what they should, they'll be in good stead.
05:59And then they start playing Cleveland.
06:01They start playing the divisional teams.
06:03Yeah, but see, at that point, Stoney,
06:05and you've seen this before covering sports,
06:08I like to classify it as sometimes it's young and stupid.
06:11Yeah.
06:12And you don't realize you shouldn't be winning.
06:14You don't realize you shouldn't be doing this well.
06:16Right.
06:17Because you're just out there having some fun.
06:19And that's what this team is now that, yeah,
06:21if you can come out of these next two series
06:23and you're sitting there tied or a game or a half game out,
06:28now it's, okay, what do we have to lose?
06:30Kind of that same mentality they had two years ago.
06:34Guys, everybody wrote us off.
06:36Let's just go out here, see where we can go,
06:38and maybe it takes it to the playoffs.
06:40Yeah, and even guys like Javi's having fun and playing well.
06:47And like we said, they're great, not great,
06:51they're really good players are playing really well.
06:56They are.
06:56I mean, Riley Green, he had a cool,
07:00he didn't play great in Sacramento,
07:02but he had a home run the other day.
07:04He's been doing good, and it's, you know,
07:07they averaged, you know, less than three runs,
07:102.89 runs per game in May.
07:13Last six games, they're averaging 4.2 runs per game
07:16in the eighth inning or later.
07:20Tiger Data also, how about this one?
07:22You know, you're talking about guys
07:23who are all suddenly doing something.
07:25Since July 26th, oh, my wife's birthday.
07:28Since July 26th, Zach McKinstry,
07:32who looked like a piece of horse bleep most of the season.
07:37Since July 26th, and it's two weeks, basically.
07:41He's batting 4.17 with an OPS of 1.14.
07:46I mean, you know, who knows if this is going to continue.
07:50But it's Melton.
07:52I mean, Melton threw 97 pitches last night,
07:55seven innings, no runs.
07:56Because Scooble did not throw 97 or more pitches
07:59at all this season in any game.
08:01Yeah, I got a feeling a lot of people
08:03are like me watching that game.
08:05You watched it.
08:06I didn't have this active, oh, I need the Dodgers to lose.
08:10No.
08:10I mean, let me see what he looks like.
08:12It looked weird seeing him in the Dodger blue.
08:17But I laugh.
08:18I'm like, oh, okay, six innings,
08:20whether you're on the East Coast, West Coast, Chicago,
08:23it doesn't matter.
08:24Right.
08:24You're only getting six out of them.
08:26He gets pulled.
08:27He loses game.
08:28And no, Corbin, I did not lose any sleep over that.
08:31It was a chuckle like, ha, ha, ha, okay.
08:35How about these stats for this season?
08:38Okay.
08:39They both spent time on the injured list.
08:43ERA for Troy Melton is 1.58.
08:47For Tariq Scooble, it's 2.81.
08:50Still very good.
08:51Whip, Melton, like I mentioned, 0.91.
08:56Scooble, very good, 0.92.
08:59Opponents are batting against Melton, 170.
09:04170.
09:05Against Scooble, still really good, 208.
09:08Opponents, OPS, 543 by Melton, 596 for Scoobs.
09:16So, he's equaling Scoobs, his statistics a little better, but, you know, not by much.
09:22Well, we're going to see because this is going to be his time to shine.
09:26This is the time for him to step up.
09:28He wants to claim that ace role.
09:30It's yours.
09:30Yeah, and look, and now that maybe people like myself, you know, when he steps to the mound again on
09:37Sunday, your expectation for Troy Melton might be higher starting now.
09:42And maybe, who knows how he'll handle that pressure, because you could argue that he, not Valdez, is the ace
09:51of this staff right now.
09:54And at 25 years old, some guys can handle that pressure.
09:58Some guys can.
09:59We will find out.
10:01All right, our telephone number is 248-539-9797.
10:03We have a couple of calls lined up.
10:06We have some texts.
10:07We'll get to them coming up as well, 97.1.
10:09We'll get to them coming up as well.
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