00:10all right it's wednesday and i have no idea what's going on i don't even know my name today
00:18we can get into it i mean i'm gonna make an appeal to the hockey elite i i i don't
00:23i i just
00:24i don't know nothing about nothing i'm sergeant schultz i mean i know nothing
00:30i don't know what the hell the wings are doing and i don't really know how to feel rico i
00:34just
00:35i know i like your quarter zip and you break it out once a month it's the caribbean green under
00:39armor it's beautiful other than that i i don't know is that why i got the pre-show hug yeah
00:44i
00:44like that q zip i just okay i don't know either i'm right there with you like you've played nine
00:51playoff games in your career and you just signed a deal to ensure that you might finish your career
00:55with nine playoff games okay i want the team to rebuild they don't want to rebuild you got a
01:03player who hasn't won anything basically saying it's okay if i don't win because i like living here
01:10seven at 13 a year all right i mean it's smart for to brink it if i'm being candid because
01:16he'll
01:16probably end up having a subpar year because he ain't got no talent to play on his line which means
01:21it's going to be hard to get 40 goals so built-in excuse but you're still going to pay me
01:25but you
01:25take the money now versus i would have just gone to the open market you can always have a home
01:30in
01:30detroit and visit as much as you like but whatever i don't care i just it's happening amidst dylan
01:36larkin hasn't rescinded his trade demand but yet he's here simon evanson at least now is on the right
01:43side of the atlantic but he's somewhere on the east coast setting up camp to train with a trainer
01:51he went from wanting to be here to now it doesn't sound like he wants to be here anymore and
01:56you
01:57get a report from david pagnotta telling you why jeff greenberg who i thought was going to be the
02:02guy i said that from the very beginning at least it makes me feel good he was the guy he
02:07received an
02:08offer to move his desk like milton in office space down the hall i want my streamlined stapler and be
02:15the
02:15railings gm in september but declined it because what was described as quote lack of full autonomy
02:21to do the job you still work for the same people down the hall like it's like oh i gotta
02:30go down to
02:31shipping and receiving so i i don't know how to feel about it i mean i'm not mad to brinkett's
02:39back
02:40he's one of their best players but i also don't understand anyone who would opt to sign here long
02:47term right now it's a bleep show and i have to be up front it makes me think you don't
02:52care about
02:53winning so now the captain is asked out won't say why won't rescind it but he's here and you just
03:02belly
03:02up to the bar for seven more years of this when you've played a grand total of nine playoff games
03:07in
03:07your career sounds about right doesn't make sense but no it at least i wasn't the only one confused
03:15because i didn't know if i'm supposed to go well good job or i just was like huh so that's
03:22where i
03:22need the hockey elite i don't know how do you guys feel i mean another loss last night i okay
03:29there were
03:30periods of that game it looked like varsity versus jv it's a bad hockey team partially because evanson's not
03:36here partially because they didn't have an off season i just guys i don't know man i can't be
03:43stephen a smith here i can't get up here and fake crap i don't know what to tell you you
03:49tell me we'll
03:50do a role reversal today all right yeah maybe maybe we'll be like cookies on one of his cruises we'll
03:56do
03:56a little role play you hear you guys tell me what to think okay i david you're you're like i'm
04:04being
04:04very very sincere with our audience i can't get up here and stand and applaud i don't even know i
04:11said
04:12this for the last six weeks the brinket insider should just say i'm out i'm out why anyone would
04:20commit the rest of their prime to this franchise right now oh but he has a young family i don't
04:26care
04:27i want to win what are you prince fielders it's just a job to you i got kids man oh
04:34but he wants
04:34to be a wing right but the problem is nobody else does so in the absence of having other high
04:41profile
04:42players who want to be here what did i just do i can't be mad i got a guy who's
04:48my best pure goal
04:49scorer but i also don't understand how he will thrive here with next to no high level support
04:56now if you show me evans and signs the brinket excuse me larkin rescinds the trade demand and
05:03then what we're going all in at the deadline we've named the gm i recall i just so what we
05:08act like
05:08this summer just didn't happen i can't henceforth i need the oculi 248-539-9797 i'm being very
05:17open with you i don't understand how to feel i need you to tell me maybe paul he's just done
05:25swigging another one of his beverages over there god i mean somebody here phone lines are open
05:32phone lines are open phone lines are open do whatever you like are the phones on hold on me
05:38check phone lines are open i just recall i just i'm so i'm exhausted no no i'm with you because
05:45i don't
05:45know i don't really know what this team wants to do i don't know if it's trying to keep all
05:50their
05:50players here or because they don't want to rebuild they don't but i don't know how much
05:57horkoff could if he can make deals i don't know how much power he has could make this deal
06:03and i and again i'm not why this deal i don't know didn't do anything for heaven's like i don't
06:08know
06:08none of it makes sense so i i like congratulations to the brinket yay question mark like i guess you
06:17you got your money not mad not happy i don't know i just a seven-year deal to play for
06:23this team
06:24that's the problem is in the absence of knowing larkin's future and in the absence of knowing
06:30evidence's future in the absence of knowing the general manager's future in the absence of knowing
06:35if the owner exists on this planet or that of krypton i i'm i don't know what to say
06:42i just they do things that don't add up i've been very upfront i'm not asking people to agree
06:48i'm simply giving you my position on this i would have burnt the whole effing thing down
06:54larkin gone evanson gone the brinket gone sell everything off start over pray you get the number
07:02one pick i don't have another way i'm not mad this young man wants to play but here's your problem
07:09you're just going to create a different version of larkin now the structure of the deal is different
07:14after i think it's after year four there is the no movement clause disappears but what is the wisdom
07:21in paying him if you're not ready to win in any meaningful way there is no the same wisdom it
07:29is
07:29for him why are you signing up long term for a team that has no direction well you really love
07:35the city
07:36that well you're you're okay we're gonna have two separate conversations there's the de brinket
07:41personal conversation he has a young family he likes it here cool that's all cool but don't you
07:48want to win something i'm sorry that i feel the way i feel he's played nine total playoff games
07:55and you've just signed essentially a death warrant makes me think a little differently of it versus the
08:02guy who goes i don't want to do this no more the other one is the team two separate i
08:08love both
08:08conversations like i love the quarter zip but i'm just i don't know what to say i feel terrible i
08:14don't
08:14have something great for my audience rico mike i'm tired you you are how i was when i got the
08:22news i'm
08:23not trying to speak for you david you probably felt the same way paul and the listeners you you didn't
08:29know is this is this good is this a good thing or or what are we doing here when i
08:36saw the alert
08:37come on my phone last night after the loss it was oh wings lose and then like five minutes later
08:43but they signed to bring it i was like so then in five minutes i'm gonna hear that evansons has
08:48signed
08:49can i also just offer this the problem i have i mean there's a myriad with the wings okay
08:59how do you know the next gm wants this player for seven years
09:05see there's your issue maybe this is why you can't hire a gm because you would think about it
09:11like that but you're right and i'm not this is no slander to alex to bring it i don't have
09:16any
09:16problems with the cat i don't i question how much he wants to win by doing this fine he chose
09:22family
09:22and liking it here god bless but the next gm doesn't necessarily want to build around alex to
09:30bring it at 13 million dollars a year well now that's baked in and i can't trade him for four
09:38years
09:40so again i can't be happy about anything they're doing
09:49when the structure's all wrong like the fact that you were going to do exactly what i said you were
09:58going to do and hire an in-house guy who spent 10 minutes with the blackhawks but is running helping
10:04run a baseball team the one you own that tells me everything i need to know but then that guy
10:09in the office went nah you're not giving me the controls i need huh so an interim gm who may
10:18not
10:18be here in 10 minutes doesn't have full autonomy to make trades but you have the autonomy to go seven
10:25years and 13 million with alex to bring it knowing no no clue who's running the team no clue of
10:33larkin's
10:33future no clue of evansons so if you do it in a bubble in a vacuum can i say that
10:39having alex to
10:40bring it on your team makes you better of course that's the positive the problem is rico in the
10:45absence of a plan and alex to bring it having support and players around him then what's the
10:52purpose okay i really like what you just hit upon because i didn't even think about it like that what
10:58the gm right because now you've ham is hamstrung that gm to this player but i guess the reason why
11:06i was looking at it from the brinkett side you kind of saw this play out with larkin he had
11:12a gm that
11:12he really didn't care for they fell out and but he was stuck here until he demanded i want out
11:19just
11:19signed without knowing who his boss will be and that's what this man just did a long-term deal seven
11:26years okay fine you can move him after four but that could be four years of hell if it's the
11:31wrong
11:31person and you're stuck here right if that guy has an opinion of alex to bring it not whether he's
11:38good
11:38or bad he's an undeniably good player but what if he doesn't want tiny players what if he wants to
11:45build something different and now you can't trade him i you know what hockey elite
11:53hockey elite the bat signal is up i don't have a batman thing harvey i just just 248-539-9797
12:03you tell me what you think i'm not happy i'm not sad i don't know i'm just confused do whatever
12:10you want red wings lose again rico but it was in overtime i don't care i just don't care okay
