00:00But we'll open with the Tigers, and I'm a man of my word.
00:04Despite a portion of that fan base being incredibly annoying
00:08and having the emotional balance of a 12-year-old,
00:12I'm going to deliver on what I said to you.
00:15I'm not getting excited about this team, and I'm not getting angry about this team.
00:20I'm not going to launch you into space or make fun of you or laugh at you
00:23for being swept by the White Sox.
00:25Not going to do it.
00:26You know what else I wasn't going to do?
00:28Deal with you guys on Friday who were upset
00:32because I wasn't essentially a Detroit Sportsnet employee
00:36walking around with a perma-bone because if the team sweeps, they could be in first.
00:43They did not.
00:45That's why I can't buy into any of it.
00:47I'm just very neutral about it.
00:49Here is my offer to the Detroit Tigers the rest of the year.
00:53My offer is nothing.
00:55You're not getting my excitement or my hope.
00:58You're not getting my anger or my annoyance.
01:01I'm very neutral with it.
01:03This is the worst American League in history.
01:05They don't need to apologize for that, and I don't need to be excited because of it.
01:10They are not some great baseball team.
01:13They're just not.
01:15And this weekend, look, would I love to do a topic about AJ and we're sitting Colt Keith
01:22after he hits a home run, and then you know what Valencia never sees after the initial
01:26at-bat?
01:27Another lefty.
01:28Again, it's the same town.
01:30What is the fascination with Drew Summers?
01:33Enough.
01:35And I'm not going to go too far into this one, but this is the problem I have.
01:39I almost feel like people associated with Tiger Media, it's the most dishonest thing in the world.
01:44I heard somebody this weekend, well, you know, when the Tigers get a lead, they hold it.
01:49We're used to that.
01:50Cutscene.
01:50Don't they lead the universe in blown saves?
01:53Ah, accountability be damned.
01:55Just roll it.
01:56Rack it.
01:58So, look, you can tell me where you're at with it, but this is just, I would encourage you,
02:08just watch the games.
02:10Stop making everything big this, big that.
02:13Pat, if I got to hear John Jansen say the next six games decide bobbity-boo, and then it's the
02:20next six games, and the next six games, and the next six games, John's been doing that trope
02:25since mid-May.
02:27He did it again today.
02:28Well, I think the next six will tell you what.
02:32There are 125 games into this.
02:36That there are six less games until the end of the season.
02:38It's just that, like, I don't understand why the Tigers are treated so different than the other teams.
02:45There's like this childlike romanticism with this crap.
02:49Look, they are who they are.
02:51And they're only in it because they play in a terrible division and a terrible league.
02:55Like, do whatever you want to do.
02:57And the last two weeks of the season, maybe I could muster some passion for it.
03:01But honestly, I watch the games.
03:05But, like, why is everyone so quick to chew it and do it with this team?
03:10What is it?
03:11Like, this is the problem.
03:12At least Sheila Ford Hamp said there was a standard with the Lions.
03:16Nine and eight wasn't acceptable.
03:17We did a self-audit.
03:18I feel like with the Tigers, the standard is, are they just not egregiously terrible?
03:24Yes.
03:25But that's not where I'm at.
03:27No, and I said a long time ago that you and David are win this effing thing or else it's
03:34a failure.
03:35Whereas a lot of Detroiters, especially on a day like today, hey, it's great baseball weather.
03:41Let's go have some fun.
03:43Let's go get some beer, some hot dogs.
03:45And if they win, great.
03:49It's also the media.
03:50I'm sorry.
03:51I think the media has poisoned this town as it pertains to baseball.
03:54Because you're not allowed to say mean things.
03:56They leave that from two to six, Mike.
03:58Everybody else says that.
03:59No, but those things aren't mean.
04:00They're just not shill behavior.
04:04Like, why does anyone owe this team anything?
04:07They've won a World Series in 40, how many?
04:091984, 42 years?
04:11I mean, approaching a half a century.
04:14Why is this team owed anything?
04:16They haven't won the division in 12 years.
04:18If anyone's owed anything, I mean, wouldn't it be the Lions?
04:22I mean, at least the Lions have done some things and gotten to the precipice of getting to a Super
04:28Bowl.
04:29And I don't even think they're owed anything.
04:31They're not, but I think it's because you look at the totality of the entire thing of this team was
04:39bad, then they were good, and then they sold, and now they're back.
04:43I told you a while ago, this is a rollercoaster ride.
04:47And rollercoasters go up and down.
04:49And I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh, my goodness, it's over, or I'm going to be
04:53like, oh, my God, they're going to the World Series.
04:55It's a rollercoaster ride.
04:57But staying in the middle, you become vilified.
05:01Friday was a joke.
05:02You know what?
05:02Look, I looked at this as if you use that whole, hey, you play Cleveland and you play Chicago, this
05:09is going to be a statement type of a week.
05:11Okay, John.
05:12The statement was you're not ready for primetime.
05:14You're not ready because when you play non-bottom-feeding teams, yeah, it didn't look so good.
05:21So now you play Pittsburgh and you play Kansas City.
05:23You know what's going to happen?
05:25Now everyone will overreact the other.
05:27I'm not overly negative, all right?
05:29They didn't have a great weekend.
05:31They're a game out of the wild card.
05:33I never believed they were going to win the division.
05:35So it's just this idea.
05:37Look, they still have a great shot to make the playoffs.
05:39I'm not too high.
05:40I'm not too low.
05:40I'm nothing.
05:41You know what I'm excited for?
05:43Football.
05:44I told fans you were gone to Saratoga, and I said, look, enjoy the ride.
05:49If they make it, they make it.
05:50They're going to be entertaining.
05:51They're going to be fun.
05:52They're going to be frustrating.
05:53You're going to be happy.
05:54You're going to be sad.
05:55You're going to experience every type of an emotion that there is because they're not out of the playoffs.
06:01They're going to be a playoff race, but they're not in because Friday, hey, if the season would have ended
06:06today, we're in the playoffs.
06:08You know what happened?
06:09It's kind of like when you're at the game and you sneak down into somebody's seats and the usher taps
06:13you on the shoulder.
06:14Sir, can I see your ticket?
06:16Yeah, you're not belonging here.
06:17Right.
06:17Go back to your seats.
06:18I mean, like we had some callers Friday and they were like, well, if you're not rooting for it, you're
06:23rooting against it.
06:24No, no, no, no, no.
06:25It's that I don't care.
06:27They haven't earned the care factor.
06:29They're not even above 500.
06:31Like, I think if you ask me, like, do I wish somebody would just put them out of their misery
06:37and actually just play decent baseball?
06:39Yes, but that's not going to happen in the American League.
06:42You had a week where you went five and five and gained ground.
06:45The only team that played above 500 baseball in a 10 game rip was Toronto.
06:49So three and seven, four and six, two and eight.
06:53I don't have to respect it.
06:55I'm not asking anyone to apologize for it.
06:58The whole reason I say it is sometimes it's okay to just be as you are.
07:04Like, I don't need to be all in and I don't need to be all out.
07:09The Tigers right now, as constituted with the way they play and who they are and where we are in
07:15the season, they're a nothing burger.
07:17They can determine what they do and I'll make a determination when I'm ready, if I'm ever ready to engage
07:25it.
07:25But the amount of people that are hard up sometimes when the team shows any pulse, like, what are you,
07:3012?
07:31Have you watched baseball before?
07:33It's going to be this way the rest of the year.
07:36What did I say even when it was May?
07:38As bad as that was, I said no one is going to run away with this thing.
07:42No one in the AL is good enough in your division or in what we call your weight class, the
07:47wild card.
07:48No one's good enough.
07:49It's played out exactly that way.
07:51So stop.
07:53Like, if I got to do another one of these three-minute Jeremy Otto updates, oh, my God, oh, my
07:57God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
07:58You know what?
07:59Unplug.
08:00Here's the thing.
08:00Can't do it.
08:01Here's the thing.
08:01For a lot of fans, especially the ones that are pro-Tigers and maybe even some of the media members,
08:09it's almost like they believe, if we all believe together, we can will this team to the playoffs, but we
08:16need good karma.
08:17And we need you saying good things about this team, and we'll feed off of that.
08:21Yeah.
08:22The negativity is going to hurt the team.
08:24Do you know who shares that opinion?
08:25The Kremlin.
08:28David, ticket checks.
08:31We saw a premier offense in this league.
08:34The Sox are in the top five offensively who have an awful pitching staff, and the Sox took advantage of
08:40our bad pitching, and the Tigers could not match against their bad pitching.
08:45No, I mean, look, it's the second most home runs given up in a series.
08:48Sox had seven.
08:49I think Cincinnati had 10 on you.
08:53Here's the thing.
08:53I'm not going to come down on the pitching.
08:55Pitching's been really, really good, but you're going to start to see it.
08:59We talked last week.
09:00I said, look, don't be shocked if Melton starts to not look like Melton.
09:03You know, he's going to get tired.
09:05This is like all bonus time.
09:08Montero's exposure rate, and then Holton's exposure rate, and some of these bullpen arms.
09:13Like, you're going to get taxed.
09:14I'm not.
09:15Dude, the pitching, I wouldn't term it as bad.
09:18It's just, this is not a brain-dead Sox team.
09:22You've played some teams like San Francisco and Oakland.
09:24What do you want me to do with that, man?
09:26That's as triple-A as it gets.
09:28So, yeah, you ran into a team that has a pulse.
09:31They're in it.
09:31And offensively, they kill fastballs.
09:34Well, they killed the fastball.
09:37They made sure they stayed in first.
09:39They let you know, you're not quite ready for our spot.
09:43You want to come after us?
09:44And ultimately, look, the Tigers, the wild card is the thing.
09:48If people are desperate to get in, that's fine.
09:51Like I said, man, I just, I don't care.
09:53I think it was being tantalized by if you swept the White Sox.
09:57Right now, we would be talking about first-place Tigers bouncing back for May.
10:02And then you were, you just got slapped in the face.
10:06And you realized, oh, wow.
10:07Not only did you not sweep them, you got swept.
10:10And you got swept at home.
10:12Correct.
10:13That's the second time.
10:14Tough pill to swallow.
10:14You've been swept twice by them.
10:15You got swept by the Indians twice early in the season.
10:19Like, if you plan on winning a division, you can't be, you know, 0-6 to a pair of those
10:26types of teams.
10:27It's just, leave the division alone.
10:30You focus on the wild card.
10:31I don't know, Baltimore had a hot week.
10:33Now, all of a sudden, they're alive.
10:35And you know what's going to happen next week?
10:36Oh, we suck again.
10:38They'll be terrible.
10:39And then the Rangers will pop up.
10:41It's going to be this way.
10:42What I can't deal with is the rollercoaster fan.
10:45They're like a child who's tired and about to throw a tantrum at any point.
10:50So I'm not going to make fun of this team, and I'm not going to celebrate them.
10:54They're nothing.
10:55Go play.
10:56I don't know.
10:56See you after Labor Day.
10:57I don't care.
11:01It's where people are at.
11:02I don't know.
11:03162 games, but a lot of times, I think it's the football mentality where you think every
11:08game counts.
11:09Every game matters.
11:10And it does when you play football, whether it's college or pro.
11:14But because there's 162 games, you can't live and die off of every game, every pitch,
11:20every inning, because you will be burnt out by the end of the season.
11:23Well, look, the conversation I wish we could have would be about A.J.
11:26Hinch.
11:26He just gets to skate, continues to make bizarre moves.
11:30But you can't even have that conversation in this town.
11:33So I just don't bother.
11:34But he did another couple things this weekend where you're going, what are you doing?
11:39Right, yeah.
11:41That's the nerdy baseball stuff.
11:43I understand that.
11:45248-539-9797.
11:47We'll get the people.
11:47I want to hear from Paul Serra as well.
11:49And we'll get to the Lions, because Dan Campbell, there's some audio.
11:52And I just, I really don't understand what he was doing.
11:57We'll get to it.
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