00:00All right, when the Detroit Tigers traded Tariq Skubal and then placed Raleigh Green on the
00:04injured list, we thought, okay, that's the end of the Tigers. And instead, they got super hot. But
00:10Tom, I feel like that reality has now finally set in, losing arguably their best offensive player
00:16and their best pitcher. They were having this run, and Clemens was walking off and hitting home runs,
00:21and it didn't seem that real to me. And now I think that's playing out here a little bit. The
00:26Tigers' offense is in the massive slump. As you can see, they only scored three runs against the
00:31Royals total Friday and Saturday, struggled against the Pirates to score as well. You just can't remove
00:38that kind of guy from a lineup, and even that guy from a pitching staff, and expect Jackson Jobe to
00:42be Skubal. The Tigers, to me, got themselves some wins to normalize maybe their record at the end
00:49of the season, but I say forget about it. I think that division, White Sox, Cleveland,
00:56Minnesota somehow hanging around. They swept the Braves. I didn't get that. Now the Twins are not
01:00playing good again. That's an awful division, but I think maybe Chicago or Cleveland for me there.
01:07When looking at what the Tigers have done recently, again, this is just a product of the schedule.
01:13And this is, you know, no disrespect to the Tigers. I was very high on them coming into the year,
01:17but,
01:17you know, since July 31st, it's like, okay, you sweep the athletics. Okay, that is what it is.
01:23You win the series against Seattle. Seattle's not good. You win a series against the Giants.
01:28The Giants are not good. You win a series against Cleveland. Cleveland's super middling,
01:33and then you lose to the White Sox. You lose to the Pirates. Now you're losing to the Royals. So
01:39they looked good, but they also weren't playing good teams. So when reality sets into your point,
01:45if they lost Skubal, they lost Riley Dean, it's like, now water finds its level,
01:49and it's a lot lower than what it was.
