00:00uh the detroit tigers are uh currently one game out of a wild card we are uh it's today's date
00:10august the 7th so we got about uh what 50 games left in the season something like that a little
00:16less than that yes less than that so i think just just by the math the rest of the season
00:23unless
00:24they go on a you know major implosion like they did in may they're gonna be in this thing until
00:31the
00:31end of the season so ladies and gentlemen whether you uh love the team hate the team think they suck
00:39think they're lucky playing a bad league whatever bad division we're gonna have basically playoff
00:46baseball from now until the end of the season just to see if they're gonna get into the playoffs
00:52because you know despite the the trade stuff with scoobal and mize according to tiger's data
01:01a very interesting twitter site excluding the month of may you realize the tigers are the best
01:07record in the american league 50 and 37 that's excluding the month of may yeah and the best
01:14run differential in all of baseball in that time period plus 128 the problem is you can't erase the
01:23month of may yeah other than that mrs lincoln how was the play like exactly something happened in may
01:28that we can't just 6 and 22 set you back tremendously so i i'm with you but it's just to
01:38the point i'm not
01:38even looking at what these you know the analytics and all of that the odds of them making the playoffs
01:44i'm just kind of following it i said a long time ago i'm not gonna get excited because you're eight
01:50and a half games out you're this you're that right you get to see you get it close and they're
01:55close
01:56right now with one game out i can now buy in i i'll now buy a ticket to hop on
02:01this roller coaster
02:02and we're gonna hold hands we're gonna do this thing together because yes you look at the teams that
02:08are ahead of you and you can you're gonna have a chance to really make you know catch up and
02:14and
02:14put some distance in between the teams because you're gonna be playing a lot of these teams
02:17in the in near future so yeah i'm i'm i'm buying in let's see if you can make the playoffs
02:25and like i
02:26said playoffs my expectations are just that right they're not world series no it's let's have some fun
02:33let's see what you can do but with this league as we talked about they can go as far as
02:40they've gone
02:40the last two seasons you never know what's gonna happen and maybe they can actually get a extra run
02:46if it goes to a game five this year if they if they do indeed make it and look you
02:52know they're on
02:53pretty much a heater right now that you can't expect them to play this well the whole way
02:58but who knows but you know what and ask people in boston look at what they're doing nobody thought
03:05of that they 32 and eight it's crazy all right at one point they were 15 or 16 in a
03:11row it was like
03:12all right this isn't gonna last i i quit saying that two years ago for the tigers right yeah it's
03:18not
03:18gonna happen right they're winning games they're winning series they're getting it done
03:24they're relaxed and i do believe that a lot of this is because you don't have the drama you don't
03:31have reporters sitting there constantly asking you about a certain player whether he's going to be
03:35here or not how do you feel about it now when they walk into the clubhouse and talk to you
03:40they're
03:40talking to you about the games that you're winning they're talking about your own team they're not
03:44talking about one player i think the focus is now back on the team and you're you replace some of
03:51the marginal guys like my jones with real players yeah young players so that's what also makes this
03:57thing so much fun to see this happening like are we getting a glimpse of the future we're down the
04:03line
04:03yeah make the playoffs but maybe in a few years you're talking about okay this is a world series
04:09contending team so that's what i like about this i mean i look at the the core if you want
04:14to say
04:15of this team which is dingler mcgonigal green probably okay i mean he was an all-star max clark
04:24appears to be part of that i'm not putting him in i i just i see core i'm not so
04:29okay yes he's part
04:30of the core okay uh so you have a core four young players you're pitching core right now okay
04:38i mean valdez is not old but he's not young but other than that melton's young montero's young
04:45jobu's pitching tomorrow he's very young i mean look their bullpen is still pathetic for the most
04:55part although holton like we said yesterday's pitching almost like he did if two years ago but
05:00yeah that's their that's their biggest problem right now is is their bullpen but it's going to be
05:05really interesting because usually this time of year if your baseball team isn't good and i'm not
05:11going to sit there and say that they're good you just start looking forward to football and of course
05:16the lion signing gibbs today pre-season game number one is a week from yesterday against cincinnati
05:23there's usually a lot of excitement but now rico you have a question about that
05:30stoney the question is really simple because last night we got our first little taste of football
05:36it was the hall of fame game and we all know it's it's not real but it's football which means
05:44it's not
05:44too long before whether it's college whether it's pros you're less than 30 days away for detroit for the
05:52detroiters out there are you more excited for the tigers right now or are you more excited for the
06:00upcoming football season with the lions especially because now that the controversy is out of the way
06:07gives is in the fold you got your new offensive coordinator you got dan campbell and the team saying
06:12we're back to business they know where they finished and they want to get back to where they were
06:18i know the answer is probably both but if you could choose one which one are you more excited for
06:24the tigers right now in this this run to the playoffs or the lions upcoming season where you got a
06:34lot of
06:35people making a lot of money and the expectation is very high some writers even have you as many as
06:4114 wins
06:42you're projected to win the north you're projected to be a playoff team which of the two if you had
06:49to pick right here right now are you more excited about tigers lions 248-539-9797 it's interesting because
07:00right now i'm probably more excited about the tigers because they're actually playing
07:05the lions still don't play anything that is legitimate for a month or so
07:12but you but here's the other thing i'm thinking about
07:19realistically there we go who do you think has the best chance of winning a title it's the lion it's
07:25the lions despite having uh nobody playing safety is any good so right but you look at the team
07:32they could put up points they could score you got dan campbell you got jared goff you got jmo you
07:38got
07:38gibbs you got st brown you got all of these pieces in place you know the expectation for them because
07:45like for me the the tigers they're fun because they have no pressure the lions right have a ton of
07:53pressure
07:53but that comes with winning that comes with winning a title we don't think that tigers can
07:59i'm i'm looking at this and it was a difficult choice for me because i'm like i i kind of
08:06like what the
08:07tigers are doing i'm gonna lean i'm leaning more towards the tigers because there is no pressure
08:17because it's like they're throwing caution to the wind and it's the tigers are kind of an unknown
08:22too which makes things intriguing i mean just you know the rotation that i just you know ironically
08:29enough both the back in the bullpen and the secondary are problematic for both teams yes but
08:35you know when i say that the tigers are like intriguing unknown i mean who would have told
08:40you that this team's gonna be in a playoff pennant race with no mize and no scoobel i mean most
08:47people i mean both that made the all-star team last year 248-539-9797 we'll take your phone calls
08:54we have a blind ranking later in the hour as well it's the bloody show with rico stoney and for
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