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Are you fully bought into the Tigers now?
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00:00we'll get straight to the people tigers big week question mark totally fine if you say it is
00:07i'm not going to say it isn't it just i am honest with you i'm on to football are they
00:15more likable
00:15sons scoobal yes do i support what the organization did absolutely but i still i'm not going to get
00:23crazy about beating a bunch of bad teams so okay what do we do i'm in a weird space with
00:31this
00:31baseball team totally understand if you want to play meaningful games you like baseball you like
00:36seeing your team win you're not a bad person for that the problem is and what you do have to
00:41stare
00:42into the mirror at you're not winning the world series so what's it for now if you're the type
00:49of fan who just i want my team to be good i want to chip in a chair at the
00:53poker tournament i know
00:54we're not going to win it but damn it let's try cool i just i don't get a thrill out
00:59of the playoffs
00:59once a team has made it a couple of times like if you've had a 14 year playoff drought you
01:05know and
01:05i'm 14 years old and it's like okay don mattingly finally got to play in the postseason in 95 that's
01:12a special thing right this is not that right the next time the wings make the playoffs you're excited
01:18yeah you haven't seen it oh you're getting close to a generation that's never seen that before
01:22a piston fan same thing two years ago boom lions fan oh my god the home playoff game against the
01:27rams will live in infamy but once you've made it ask a lion fan if they care about making the
01:32playoffs this year it's about the super bowl so that's the weird space i'm in but let's see what
01:38everyone has and we'll go from david did you want to add something or are you okay i i think
01:44these people are telling us i mean we've we've got a few people calling up but i think the majority
01:50of fans are telling us that they don't care about this detroit tiger team they don't care about this
01:55run i don't i'm one of them i just don't care you're on the football i am on the football
02:01because
02:01it's about the world series to me not just winning it at least making it because they haven't made it
02:06in such a long time but i don't think they can get there so to do what they've done the
02:11last two
02:11years that means nothing to me okay see yeah and david i look at it a little differently because
02:16now you kind of taking away your your two best pitchers on the staff bringing up mcgonigle bringing
02:23up clark it just kind of feels like you you rebuilt you you retooled on the fly this doesn't feel
02:30like the same team that was there two years ago this feels like an entirely different team
02:34in my opinion but can i say this i feel like it's a year late mcgonigle should have been up
02:41last
02:41year you know what i can't fight that he should have been up last year and he would have gotten
02:44the playoff experience and then maybe wouldn't we wouldn't be 16 games back this year because he
02:50would have already had some experience no you're you're right i can't fault that you're it is a
02:55year too late but this team doesn't feel like the last the teams from the last two years no it
03:01does feel like they have the the development of a young core offensively dingler green mcgonigle not
03:09ready to go there with clark yet the guy's been here for 10 minutes i'm not being disrespectful
03:13it's been a hopeful start but like let's take it easy before we just auto roll him into yeah i
03:19know
03:19and again we had that conversation i know and it was a lovely debut and the whole thing i'm just
03:23i want
03:24to be fair to him i i don't you got to be careful doing that stuff we'll go to dean
03:2997 one dino how you
03:31been hey man how's it going i have two things one i wanted to say something about the tigers and
03:36something random because you're going to saratoga going to saratoga um with the tigers zero expectation
03:42obviously i'm a yankees fan but i still watch the tigers because it's here and with my business it's
03:47easier to strike up conversation with sports with the tigers now it's just watching on entry can you
03:53be the first team ever to come back from 16 and make it to the postseason other than that there's
03:59no realistic expectation what are you going to do in the playoffs because here's the other thing when
04:03it comes to the american league every single team is either doing well or doing terrible and they go
04:10back and forth no one's consistent i've never seen anything like it dean in my life of watching
04:16baseball i have never seen it like this it's awful i don't think the league's ever been this trash
04:21yeah no you're fighting to get to 500 to make the playoffs yeah and again they still have such a
04:29long road to go but this week would be the kickoff to that like everything you've done to get to
04:34this
04:35point fine it really does start now three against cleveland three against the white socks i'll
04:42listen but i'm not going to take time out of my day to turn it on the television okay you
04:47can find it
04:47that's fair now what was the other thing yet so uh actually i've been listening obviously for over a
04:54decade now and so with how much you talked about right horse racing and how like passionate you
05:00were about it my grandfather's the same way he grew up doing horsies all of it we used to go
05:05to uh
05:06northville downs to watch the buggies all that stuff so i took my grandfather my uncle and my father to
05:12um the kentucky derby awesome and it was the most expensive thing i've ever and might possibly ever do
05:20in my life we were in the grandstands around the first turn and it was super cool it was a
05:25great
05:25experience i absolutely loved it but have you been to the kentucky derby and would you take that over
05:30saratoga or what's your opinion on that no i've been i've been fortunate in my life i've gone to a
05:34few
05:35dean i haven't gone since 2018 because what they're doing to the event it's very similar to
05:42some sporting events they're taking the fun out of it it's becoming like egregiously expensive to just go
05:47but no i i wouldn't take it over saratoga i wouldn't uh i wouldn't take it over a saturday
05:53at keeneland um i would say though the ticket price did come with unlimited food and drinks yeah
06:00depending on where you sit no dean listen it's a great event i'd encourage anyone to do it once
06:05it's a bucket list thing um and what churchill's done i mean dean you you got to see it they've
06:11sunk
06:11half a billion dollars into the track like they're they're building parts of that track that are
06:17only open two days a year oaks day and derby day um yeah you do it once but no i
06:25i'll take a day in
06:26the picnic area at saratoga over that but that's where i grew up it's different now buddy it looks
06:31fun i i think i'm gonna take you up on it next year i'm getting a hat like big g
06:35oh geez we rocking
06:36out geez hat game second it was nice it but he can pull it off he's 70 i mean it's
06:42it's like there's
06:43certain things you can only wear when you're older what are you trying to say may have stepped in it
06:49david may have stepped in a little something let me check my shoe yep stepped right in it okay you
06:57are
06:57of a more appropriate demographic okay you know what there's it's probably best just to go to thomas
07:05971 tommy how you doing buddy hey what's going on um i got two things to say to you um
07:12yesterday
07:12you were talking about how boring college football is yeah i think you guys think it's boring you and
07:19rico because you guys are msu alumni and i think you guys are undercover michigan fans because you
07:26would like for a lot of the stuff that happens at michigan to happen at msu as far as the
07:31booster
07:31club you would like the money to be spent to spend at michigan to be spent at msu and i
07:37think that's
07:37why you guys get so mad can i can i can i can i offer you just a quick note
07:43may i go in in defense
07:45of that heinous accusation um thomas for most of almost exclusively in my life msu's been bad at
07:52football okay for about five years and college football was always my favorite sport so that that
07:58that correlation and i believe me the ticket texters were all over it i'm used to msu being
08:04bad i love the sport it's not about that it's about every decision the sport has made has attacked
08:12and thomas i don't know how old you are but like if you're i'm 49 okay just like my eight
08:16-time
08:16college guys perfect so like you know what real college football was and everything they're doing
08:22like stanford in the acc or as you know we have we have two teams from los angeles in the
08:29big 10
08:29like thomas that's that's the stuff that's ripped me apart where i can't love it yeah and thomas i i
08:36for me i can't speak for mike but i don't think it has anything to do with msu it's as
08:42i stated before
08:42it was the drama of seeing a certain player and knowing either he was going to be your guy for
08:48the
08:48next three years going pro or four years yeah or man we got to face this quarterback for the next
08:55three or four seasons how will we ever beat this team that's what when rivalry games actually meant
09:02something because the players hated each other the coaches hated each other right thomas thomas
09:08fans hate each other thomas you're you're a go blue guy which is totally fine like you know what
09:14i did get recruited to go to mr state they did bring me up there to go to go there
09:19well you
09:20probably made the right choice but thomas thomas i'm being serious like you you remember what it
09:25was like to have a mike hart and you go that's my guy and i know he's going to be
09:29here next year
09:30and like that there's a disconnect where thomas i just i don't feel anything anymore that's that's all
09:37i can tell you now let me ask you just one thing about the tigers yeah what is there not
09:41to be
09:42excited about the tigers they were down and if they would have won the games they lost they would
09:47be in first it's no good team in the al you know that you just don't want to say that
09:52because you
09:52know you've been wrong because you said the tigers were done the tigers are not done i believe they're
09:56going to win not say that now now thomas we're over two now he actually just said that last segment
10:01i never said they were done i said there was no good team in the al yeah i but they're
10:08not they're
10:08the hottest team next to boston okay the hottest team thomas that's fine who's not what's not to
10:14be excited about them for me i do not believe as currently constructed they are a legitimate world
10:20series team now if you're excited about making the playoffs thomas i ain't mad at nobody for me it was
10:26about winning the world series this year but let me say this to you mike before new york got to
10:32the
10:32uh playoffs in 2024 they were in the same boat as the tigers what who what are we talking about
10:40here
10:40the yankees the yankees the yankees before they went in 2024 they were in the same boat as the
10:45tigers they had the same drought as the tigers so my thing to you is this now that they have
10:49a younger
10:49team now that they have a hungrier team i think this team is better than the team that that came
10:55back
10:55they were on to thomas and you you have a right to feel that way just like i have a
11:00right to
11:00disagree i don't think you're beating the yankees in a seven game set i don't think you're beating
11:06the rays in a seven game set i don't even know if you're making the playoffs and all of this
11:11is just
11:11prologue to making the world series and getting decapitated so it's fine but like you say what is
11:19there not to be excited about i i i just feel like i'm still sitting here on august 11th and
11:25i'm it's an
11:25under 500 team in a horrible al and i gotta just roll with it i'm not against it but i'm
11:34on to
11:35football i only have so much time and patience where i'm gonna wait for a team to give me a
11:42reason
11:43to believe i believe they can get in i never wrote them off in fact i've said they're like a
11:50cockroach
11:50they would survive a nuclear bomb you can't get rid of this team but i've also used history as the
11:58guide no teams 16 under has made it we don't you know i say lots of stuff but let's be
12:05accurate
12:05about what i say now gee whiz and behold yeah what we're not liking college football because we
12:14we're state fans in closet i'm 45 years old msu has been bad for basically 35 years of my life
12:22yet college football is my favorite sport and that's just a false correlation but it's a convenient
12:27one yeah i was about to say 12 through what actually 13 through 15 10 through 15 okay you won
12:35the big 10
12:35and 10 you played for it in 11 you bottomed out because of dave warner in 12 13 you win
12:41it 14 you go
12:42top five and 15 you make the playoff and then now even throwing 21 you had canine and that made
12:48this and you know you know what 21 really felt like for both michigan michigan state fans like a
12:52post-covid euphoria yeah like football was back uh you know we're gonna play in empty stadiums with
12:58doug karsh cardboard cutouts like both teams it was it was that moment in time but we didn't even
13:04realize if i told you in 2021 where the sport would be in 2026 i don't think you'd believe me
13:11no no you wouldn't miami has is opening up their acc schedule week one you know they're playing
13:18stanford they're at stanford oh yeah no no it's but uh it's also one of those things when you look
13:24back even at 21 game you see how many pros were in that game david's mad at me we're way
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