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Which Detroit team teased you the most?
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00:08Tarek Skubal doesn't want closure.
00:11You know what that cut was?
00:12And we can play it again for people.
00:14You know what it was, though?
00:15What?
00:15I actually think if Skubal talked like that for the last two years, we'd be all fine.
00:22That was very sports cliche.
00:24It's a business.
00:25I'm going to go out there and compete with my boys.
00:27If he did that for the last two years, that'd be great.
00:31Instead of Detroit, I love you, but I'm going to leave you.
00:34But I love you, but I'm going to leave you.
00:36You should cheer for me.
00:37I love you, but I don't care about you because I'm going to leave you.
00:41If you felt like that audio was built up a little too much, it's totally Brendan Shabath's fault.
00:45He was hyping this up from the moment he walked in.
00:46But I want to play it again for people.
00:48This is Tarek Skubal ahead of tonight's start.
01:13Well, the way Shabath was telling us about this, I'm thinking, I don't want any closure
01:16because I might want to come back.
01:18I love Detroit, and I want them to bid on me.
01:21But he didn't do that, so I can appreciate that.
01:23I think that was a very PC answer.
01:26I feel that maybe he got a little media training in the two weeks in LA.
01:30Very quickly, though.
01:32Yes.
01:32We all could cheer.
01:34Would you agree?
01:34Would everybody agree?
01:35If Skubal doesn't get the bag, if the offseason begins, and he doesn't get the Jeff Passan
01:42$400 million contract, we all cheer.
01:46I mean, I don't really care at that point.
01:48Oh, you're done with it.
01:49Okay.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Oh, see, I'm taking it next level.
01:51Yeah, of course you are.
01:53I mean, you should see the text we're getting about you.
01:55What am I doing?
01:57Having you in today.
01:58Why do you care if he gets the money or not?
01:59Like, see, this is where you're obsessed.
02:01You just said you're carrying it into the offseason.
02:03A good sports radio host, I feel, gets caught up in.
02:06You know what this is, Tom?
02:07It's caught up and getting obsessed are two different things.
02:10Well, you know what it is?
02:11You ever watch a great detective show where the detective is caught up in that murder case
02:15that he just can't let go?
02:16That killer is out there, and I can't let it go, and it haunts him.
02:20This is Skubal for me.
02:21I need to know how it ends.
02:22So you're Sherlock Holmes.
02:24That's right.
02:25A couple texts on you.
02:26I'm a Matt Locke fan, actually.
02:27On you.
02:27The fixation that Jeff has about Skubal needs to be studied.
02:30I secretly think Jeff loves the guy.
02:32There's no rhyme or reason that someone would care or talk about him this much.
02:36CJ in Belleville.
02:37And another says, this is Rieger's dream night.
02:41Get Detroit all riled up, have some blue chew on the way home, and have an all-nighter with his
02:45wife.
02:46She wouldn't do it.
02:50You hate that drop.
02:52Hey, Allison.
02:532-4-8.
02:56We have pages of texts on Skubal.
02:58We've got open lines.
02:59We want to know.
03:00Cheer, boo, and what does it say about Detroit?
03:02Either way.
03:02That was your friend's concern is we're going to look bad.
03:04I don't think it makes us look bad if we boo the guy.
03:07I just don't think we're going to give majority boo the way you do.
03:10You have a Tiger thought on this season and this team, and you want to label this baseball to you.
03:14I do.
03:15And listen, this is a tad negative, but I'm sorry for so early in the morning.
03:20But is it fair to say, what's the one word you would describe this Tiger season as?
03:25What's the one word, if you could say, 2026 was a blank?
03:30What would you say?
03:35You have a word.
03:36What's your word?
03:36My word is tease.
03:38Is it fair?
03:38The Tigers teased us.
03:40At the end of May, May 31st, that was the Cater-Montero game where A.J. yanked them too early
03:45at 66 pitches.
03:46They were in Chicago.
03:47They were 16 under.
03:49At that point, everybody wrote them off.
03:51They're dead.
03:51Then, to their credit, they fought back to one game under 500.
03:55So you're not negative.
03:56And everybody got very excited for that Chicago White Sox series.
04:00Like, hey, man, the White Sox are coming to town.
04:02If we sweep this series, we're going to be in first place.
04:04Let's go, bitches, right?
04:05Everybody was so excited about it.
04:07And then, of course, they got swept.
04:09And I lost track.
04:12They lost 11 to 12.
04:14Yeah, I've stopped even looking at the standings.
04:17They're five and a half out of the wild card.
04:18They're eight out of the division.
04:20They're totally dead.
04:21Nine below 500.
04:22A loss tonight would put them 10.
04:23Is it fair you call this a tease?
04:25Is that accurate?
04:26Because they came in with a top 10 payroll trying to get one in Scrooble's last season.
04:31Yeah.
04:32They certainly played with your emotions.
04:34So is it fair?
04:35I need your approval before we go on.
04:37I think, yeah, you could call this team a tease.
04:39Okay, a tease.
04:40So the 2026 Tigers are no longer the Tigers.
04:43They're the Detroit teasers.
04:45Do we like that?
04:47Okay.
04:48Give it up for the Detroit teasers.
04:49So I started to wonder, because in Detroit sports, everybody has one.
04:54And I know everybody in this room has one.
04:57What is the biggest Detroit sports tease?
05:00When they re...
05:02And now it could be a person.
05:03It could be a team.
05:04It could be a thing.
05:06It could be whatever your heart desires.
05:09What is the biggest Detroit sports tease?
05:11Like, I'll give you one that nobody will take.
05:13And it's so long ago, but they teased me.
05:16Like, years and years and years ago, Brian Ellerby, the coach of Michigan, won the first
05:21ever Big Ten tournament.
05:22He beat Purdue.
05:24They won the Big Ten tournament.
05:25I'm like, well, Michigan's got a good basketball coach here.
05:27And he was awful and pathetic.
05:29And they fired him.
05:30And they hired Tommy Amaker.
05:31And away they went.
05:33That was a tease to me.
05:34I got excited.
05:35I for sure thought, here we go.
05:39And then it fell short.
05:40That's this Tiger season.
05:41We all did that right before the White Sox series.
05:43I'm going to need your help narrowing it down.
05:46Which of the last marches for the Red Wings is the most egregious?
05:51Because I've gotten teased by the Red Wings, literally, to where I bought in.
05:55You knew this one was going to collapse.
05:57This one I did.
05:58Yeah, probably the second one.
05:59The two prior?
06:00What was the 91-point season?
06:02That one?
06:02The one where it went down to the last game.
06:05Yes, that would be my answer to this.
06:06That's the biggest tease.
06:07Yes.
06:07Yes.
06:08Because that was a team that was riding high, did collapse, got all the way back in it.
06:13And in the final game of the season, wasn't it like an empty net goal in the Flyer game?
06:17It was.
06:18And at the same time...
06:19The Wings won that game, but then the Capitals won.
06:21Aragas despair.
06:22He grabs it and keeps it in the O-zone, and they score, and they're going to...
06:25And it didn't mean anything because they didn't get the result they needed in the other game.
06:29Right.
06:29Because you're right.
06:30If they would have won that game, but the Capitals would have lost their game, then the
06:34Wings would have gone to the postseason, and the drought would have been broken, and all
06:37was good.
06:37That's a great tease.
06:38I think that's my answer.
06:39Do these guys have a tease?
06:41If we can give them a chance to weigh in, I know phones are lighting up, so I want to
06:44I know Tom's got a tease.
06:46Pistons.
06:47This year.
06:47This year?
06:48This year.
06:49Yeah.
06:5060 wins.
06:50Number one seed.
06:51Easy East.
06:53And they didn't get to the conference finals.
06:55It's a good tease.
06:57Big time tease.
06:58Absolute tease.
06:59How about in the way they did it, too, where they went to Cleveland and won, and you thought
07:02they were coming home to win, and they got completely trounced.
07:05In that game seven, where people are leaving early.
07:08Think about that.
07:08You get a home game seven in the NBA playoffs.
07:10Dan Gilbert buses all those fans in.
07:12You build this up.
07:13We're still alive.
07:14We're still in this.
07:14We can win and get one round further.
07:17I have the ultimate tease.
07:18I think.
07:20The 2006 or the 2012 Detroit Tigers.
07:242006 make the World Series.
07:26They lose to an 83-win team.
07:28Right?
07:28They had all those mistakes.
07:29They lose in five to a bad Cardinals team.
07:32Or 2012.
07:33You got all these studs.
07:35Miggy wins the Triple Crown.
07:36You got Prince for protection.
07:38You got a great team.
07:40You sweep the Yankees and the ALCS.
07:42And then you lose to an early Madison Bumgarner and like a washed up Barry Zito and a washed
07:48up Tim Lincecum.
07:49And you get swept by a Giants team that I do believe Scott Harris might have worked on.
07:54I don't know if he did or didn't.
07:56But I think we're confusing two things here.
07:58That was a tease.
07:59I don't want to just come up with teams that fell short.
08:03That's not the same thing as a team that's a tease.
08:05I think anything that gets you excited and then it doesn't live up to the excitement is a tease.
08:12See, I disagree with this framing.
08:14But then is the 23 Lions a tease?
08:17They got to the NFC title game.
08:18They built a 17-point lead at halftime.
08:20Are they a tease?
08:20That's a great tease.
08:21The game itself was a tease.
08:23But that team overachieved.
08:24That's fair.
08:25And I think the 06 Tigers overachieved.
08:28Okay, so was the 15-2 team a tease?
08:30Because they went 15-2.
08:31Maybe.
08:32And then they lose to the commanders with all the injuries.
08:34They had me looking ridiculous discoing in the studio dressed like a fool.
08:37You did look ridiculous.
08:38Yeah, so that might be a tease.
08:40The 24 Lions that killed everybody in the regular season.
08:43They won by double digits on average all regular season and then lost their very first playoff
08:49game by double digits to the commanders.
08:52Kind of like the booing.
08:53I feel the tease.
08:54It's the eye of the beholder, right?
08:56You can consider whatever you want as a tease.
08:59I see what you're saying.
09:00I knew you were going to get like this.
09:02I knew you were going to do this.
09:03You were going to try to break down what a tease actually is.
09:06I say just let the people decide.
09:08Okay, fine.
09:08We'll go to the phones.
09:09Let's go to Brian.
09:10Brian, good morning.
09:12Good morning, gentlemen.
09:13How are you doing today?
09:14Hey, Brian.
09:15All right, here's my tease.
09:18Javid Best.
09:20That's a great tease.
09:21I had so much hope for what he was capable of.
09:25I expected so much out of that.
09:27Brian, you know what game I always think about with Javid Best?
09:31You know the one.
09:32A specific game.
09:34Monday night against the Bears.
09:38And it felt like it was all finally going to click.
09:40That was like the comeback party.
09:42That was like we're real this year.
09:43Yeah, I've never heard a crowd louder with the exception of the Rams, Lions, Matthew Stafford game.
09:50Prime time.
09:51Javid Best.
09:52He was a star.
09:53Hot start.
09:54Yep.
09:55What did that team do?
09:58Missed the playoffs, right?
09:59It was Jim Schwartz.
09:59I think they made the playoffs.
10:01Was that 2011?
10:01I think so.
10:02Okay, then they made the playoffs.
10:03Was it 2014?
10:05I don't think it was 2014.
10:07Yeah, I think.
10:08But that was Schwartz.
10:08Yeah.
10:09Yeah, because Caldwell was 2014.
10:11So it would have been Jim Schwartz.
10:12Yeah.
10:13Adam in Gibraltar.
10:15Detroit Sports Teases.
10:16Good morning.
10:16You're on 97.1.
10:18Hey, good morning, guys.
10:19How you doing?
10:19What's up, Adam?
10:21Hey, Rieger.
10:23Surprised to see you in the morning.
10:25Me too.
10:27I just wandered in here.
10:30Cookies is very like, I got to deal with this guy today.
10:33All right.
10:34What about me having to deal with Cookies?
10:37Why doesn't anybody see it the other way around?
10:40I will say you guys are my two favorites.
10:42I will say Cookies and John and Rieger is my three favorite people.
10:48John's not going to like them.
10:4997.1.
10:50Me and the same page as him.
10:51I love you.
10:52I love you guys.
10:53But I would say my tease would be, I would say the 13 Tigers that the ALCS game, base loaded
11:07up, 5-1, two outs, Big Papi comes up.
11:09You win that game, man, it just ripped up the hearts of us and it ripped up the whole series
11:15for that whole series with Boston.
11:19But I actually called because when you look at the Tigers from a magnifying glass the last couple of years,
11:26they were looking to see what kind of core they had.
11:29They overperformed the last couple of years.
11:31We can honestly probably say that now considering how they finished last year and then how they went about it
11:38all of this year.
11:40And now I feel like Scott Harris has a better inclination on who the actual core is because I don't
11:49think his core will be Cole Keith.
11:51I don't think his core will be Cary Carpenter.
11:55I don't think his core will be Cary Carpenter.
11:56It's McGonagall.
11:58It's Clark as he gets his feet under him.
12:00Gingler, Clark.
12:01Green.
12:02Brett Callahan.
12:03Green.
12:04But there's even talks about even like, you know, I don't think you're going to do it, but you definitely
12:08need more speed in that outfield of moving green to, you know, first base.
12:13But you're probably going to see a couple of the kids up, you know, in the next week or so
12:17coming up probably.
12:20They fast-tracked Braseno it looked like, but I don't think he's doing too hot in AAA.
12:25I expect to see maybe Max Anderson if they have a spot for him.
12:29But this team definitely knows who their core is, you know, now.
12:34Well, Adam, there's value for sure in figuring out whether you have a young nucleus or not and who those
12:38guys are.
12:39And I would say from that standpoint, good.
12:41The problem is, do you have confidence in the guy to buy at deadlines when they're good or to add
12:48the necessary free agent pieces to get to the next level?
12:50He's whiffed in both areas.
12:53You can make the case.
12:54Scott Harris has been a tease of sorts as well, especially last year at the trade deadline.
12:58That was an absolute tease.
13:00Like, hey, man, let's go.
13:03Go get a Eugenio Suarez, which I get it.
13:05He didn't kill it in the postseason.
13:07He got released the other day.
13:07And then instead he got Charlie Morton.
13:09No, apparently, yes, he got put on waivers.
13:11Oh, sorry.
13:11Nobody claimed him, I think.
13:13Yeah.
13:13I have a great tease.
13:14Maybe the ultimate tease.
13:16Is it a Karsian tease?
13:17No, it's an actual Detroit sports tease.
13:19Oh, okay.
13:20Can I give it to you?
13:21Can you do it next?
13:22Yeah.
13:23I don't know if you know our clock.
13:24We were like two minutes late.
13:25So let's do it next.
13:26We'll do it next.
13:26So it's really a tease.
13:27No kidding.