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Tigs Season Ends In ALDS Instant Classic · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network presented by Fox One. I'm Kieren
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Speaker 1: Steckley with me as always as a man who always
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Speaker 1: has something left in the tank. He is Cody Stavinigg
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Speaker 1: And how you doing to all right?
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure I have a ton left in the
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Speaker 2: tank after that one, Karen, but we can, uh, we
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Speaker 2: can try to talk about it, unpack it a little bit.
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Speaker 2: We'll have several more months to talk about it and
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Speaker 2: unpack it though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're recording this uh Saturday morning.
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Speaker 3: Uh uh you know, late game.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys noticed Cody working hard
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Speaker 1: there and and so we just thought it'd be a
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Speaker 1: little bit better, be a little bit fresher in the morning, uh,
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Speaker 1: to kind of reflect and and look back a little bit.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna save a lot of the big picture stuff,
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Speaker 1: as Cody said, for later in the offseason. We have
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Speaker 1: plenty of time for that. But uh, just off the top, Cody,
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Speaker 1: you were there initial thoughts, uh, you know, seeing what
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Speaker 1: was like like it hurts to lose, but that was
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Speaker 1: a historical thing that we just watched and you got
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Speaker 1: to witness so I was kind of handed off to
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Speaker 1: you here, like, what what do you make of this
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Speaker 1: kind of legendary postseason game that happened in Seattle last night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think I've really had time to process it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of it. Where do
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Speaker 2: you start? Yeah? It was an all time great baseball game.
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Speaker 2: It had pretty much everything you can want. It's amazing
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Speaker 2: the score was only three to two because it felt
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Speaker 2: like there were so many pressure point moments and so
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Speaker 2: many instances where the game turned, but not all that instance,
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Speaker 2: not all that many instances when where guys actually crossed
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Speaker 2: home plate. A lot of terrific performances that will be forgotten.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about some of them, and if
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Speaker 2: I don't mention it right now, we might say the
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Speaker 2: name will Vest, you know, we might not say cater Montero,
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Speaker 2: just something, you know. The pitching was was terrific to
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Speaker 2: keep this game nodded. So many times in extra innings
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Speaker 2: where it felt like someone was going to score, No
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Speaker 2: one did. I I don't know. I don't have a
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Speaker 2: strong like overall takeaway other than that it was it
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Speaker 2: was a pleasure to watch. It was incredibly loud, all night.
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Speaker 2: My ears literally hurt Team mobile parts showed up America.
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Speaker 2: Tigers fans got some work to do because they kind
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Speaker 2: of set a new standard out there, man. But it
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Speaker 2: was phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again there's gonna be some stuff that gets lost.
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Speaker 1: Right before the Carpenter home run, that hustle double by
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Speaker 1: Bias was impressive and Dingler, I believe I had this
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Speaker 1: ride again. It all runs together. In the tenth inning,
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Speaker 1: Dingler and Bias both put charges in the balls that
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Speaker 1: like maybe you know, another inch eer another degree here,
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Speaker 1: like those are out and then you might end up
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Speaker 1: winning the game.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's like game of benches.
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Speaker 1: You're right though, like for a game that went like
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Speaker 1: over six hours, almost two games worth of baseball, uh
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Speaker 1: and so many kind of if points, but only to
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Speaker 1: scratch your five combined runs in this game. Kind of impressive.
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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought up vest I'm glad you
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Speaker 1: brought up Montero. There were some what if guys that
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Speaker 1: will be forgotten. But one of the things that we're
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Speaker 1: not gonna forget is what we saw from Tarrek Schooble.
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Speaker 1: Trek Schouoble who goes six innings. He allows two hits,
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Speaker 1: the one run, thirteen k's was it seven in a
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Speaker 1: row at one point?
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Speaker 3: Thirteen k's is the most?
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Speaker 1: Uh is the most ever in a winner take all game,
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Speaker 1: I believe, I have that correct.
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Speaker 2: The postseason game, I believe. And then seventh straight the
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Speaker 2: most in postseason game. Thirteen the most inian winner take
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Speaker 2: all postseason game. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And and really like like if there was a bad
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Speaker 1: omen that I thought, you know, during that game is
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Speaker 1: when Naylor just like they kind of judge like, well,
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Speaker 1: how do you get it, Schooble in in a winner
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Speaker 1: take all game, you kind.
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Speaker 3: Of gotta do some junkie stuff, some janky stuff.
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Speaker 1: And he just kind of like throws a bat out there,
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Speaker 1: gets gets the second base, and to his credit, smart
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Speaker 1: baseball IQ gets the third on a steal and uh
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Speaker 1: and then and then is able to score thereafter. And
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Speaker 1: it's like there's like little random stuff and they they
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Speaker 1: did it, give him credit, But Schooble I mean just.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes these these aces, these elites.
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Speaker 1: The you know, the micro you know, analyze in the
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Speaker 1: postseason and it's like, okay, well you know he lost
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Speaker 1: to Seattle four times this year.
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Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no no.
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Speaker 1: Then this series, Schooble was lights out. This postseason, Schooble
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Speaker 1: was lights out. He just happens to start to losses
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Speaker 1: for the Tigers. But that was an old time performance.
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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable that Terry Scougble did not win a game
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Speaker 2: in this series. He certainly did his best man to
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Speaker 2: put to put that team on his back. It is strange,
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Speaker 2: you know how it could all be different if Josh
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Speaker 2: Naylor doesn't steal that ninety feet and a quol sidement
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Speaker 2: man or a ballplayers could use other than maybe a
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Speaker 2: hobby when he's when he's focused a little bit. They
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Speaker 2: don't have anyone who plays the game quite like Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 2: And again it shows by popping a ball that's not
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Speaker 2: even in the strike zone for a double, by taking
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Speaker 2: ninety feet, putting some pressure, scoring the only run off
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Speaker 2: Terrek Scooble and an otherwise dominant historic outing ninety nine pitches.
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Speaker 2: I understand why you wouldn't send him back out after that,
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Speaker 2: even though it's Trek's Scougle. That's that can be pretty risky,
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Speaker 2: so it makes sense. But yeah, I don't know what
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Speaker 2: else you say after dn't know what else say? He said,
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Speaker 2: I don't really want to talk about myself right now.
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Speaker 2: He hardly talked about his outing after that outing. And
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Speaker 2: it was also weird it it's literally been hours since
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Speaker 2: he had pitched in that game.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point. It's a long time.
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Speaker 1: I was like yesterday, you know what I mean, by
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Speaker 1: the time he gets the the to the podium. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: just just all time stuff there and then and then
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Speaker 1: also Carry Carpenter, like, let's try to hit some of
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Speaker 1: the get some of the hits. Right here, He's four
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Speaker 1: for five, he has two walks, he has that home
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Speaker 1: run off a lefty, and uh and and what what
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Speaker 1: he has gets on base five times with a home run.
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Speaker 1: First time someone's done that in the postseason since like
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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth or something like that. Like like all old
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Speaker 1: time stuff from Carry Carpenter. He like he and Trek
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Speaker 1: really carried this team because outside of a couple other spots,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't really much else that the Tigers got from
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Speaker 1: with respect to the you know, the guys that came
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Speaker 1: out of the bullpen Offenly, it just wasn't a whole lot.
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Speaker 1: But Carry Carpenter carried this team really throughout the series.
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Speaker 2: Glad someone could hit the Tigers two, three, four, five
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Speaker 2: hitters were combined, oh for twenty three with ten strikeout
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Speaker 2: least unbelievable, actually unbelievable. Imagine if someone could at least
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Speaker 2: move Gerry Carpenter to second base, but that wasn't happening.
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Speaker 2: Carp himself, though, was as locked in as it gets
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Speaker 2: when it matters most. And yeah, strange, this guy's got
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a growing October legend, and he's
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Speaker 2: never advanced past the alds, but he's got some big
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Speaker 2: time home runs and Tiger's postseason history had one that
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Speaker 2: again for a second, felt like felt like you were
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Speaker 2: going to be talking about it forever. And now it's
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Speaker 2: just again one of a million footnotes in this wild
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Speaker 2: fifteen inning game.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming back here, I did want to bring
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Speaker 1: up the Holton piece of this real quick, because obviously
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Speaker 1: in game four doesn't have it at all, gets it,
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Speaker 1: gets the hook there. And then game five he comes in,
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Speaker 1: kind of the epitome of like what we've been struggling
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Speaker 1: with with Holton old year. He comes in, He revas
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Speaker 1: at the play, throws a cutter that is probably more
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Speaker 1: middle and up than he would have wanted, but he
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Speaker 1: gets the pitch. And then and then the next one
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Speaker 1: is a change up that's just like straight middle, straight
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Speaker 1: straight batting practice. And and and that's the tie game
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Speaker 1: right there. Uh you met, like you mentioned the you
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Speaker 1: know o for twenty three with your two three four hitters.
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Speaker 1: The epito the the pitching equivalent of that for the
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Speaker 1: Tigers is Holton just not giving you production, uh in
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Speaker 1: in this series or at least in the in these
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Speaker 1: two games in this instance, like that's your job, right
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Speaker 1: there is to hold And he didn't make good pitches
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Speaker 1: and and he got and he got burned for it.
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Speaker 1: And that in addition to obviously tie in the game
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Speaker 1: that's late enough that that gives that Seattle crowd, which
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Speaker 1: didn't need any more juice, all that more juice and
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Speaker 1: to set the tone for UH for for the rest
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Speaker 1: of the game. There so disappointing at a Holton because
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Speaker 1: he gotta he gotta, he gotta execute there.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, it wasn't a good pitch,
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Speaker 2: but that's that's a tough spots in and with runners
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Speaker 2: own base, that's his job. Well, if Kyle Finnigan did
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Speaker 2: his job, he wouldn't have entered in that spot. Kyle
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Speaker 2: Finnigan was an X factor, provided so many great moments
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Speaker 2: for the Tigers late in the season. Was huge, and
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Speaker 2: the DS reality is he had he had earned runs
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Speaker 2: in three different uh in the Wildcards. In the LDS,
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Speaker 2: he had earned runs in three different appearances. Two of
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Speaker 2: them were absolutely crucial. Two of them could be better
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Speaker 2: if Kyle Finnigan could have given you a clean inning.
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Speaker 2: He's a good pitcher. Talked afterward about loving his time
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Speaker 2: in Detroit. Seems to be some interest in wanting to
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Speaker 2: come back. I think it's a move that can make
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Speaker 2: a lot of sense for the Tigers. But in the
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Speaker 2: aftermath of that one, you know, you pitch him four
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Speaker 2: out of five, No granted the tie, they wrote him
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Speaker 2: so hard, and you have to wonder if that played
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Speaker 2: a role because the last three appearances earned runs on
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Speaker 2: the board.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and.
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Speaker 1: I think another guy that's worth mentioning in this series
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Speaker 1: Troy Melton in this series eight innings, one run, eight
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Speaker 1: k he and not to mention what he had to
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Speaker 1: do last night on obviously short rest or whatever. Like,
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Speaker 1: I think I think we can officially say we all
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Speaker 1: kind of knew it and all that stuff. I think
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Speaker 1: we can officially say Melton's a dude that they got.
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Speaker 1: They got themselves a dude here in that young right hander.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, gosh, again, they asked so much out of him.
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Speaker 2: I was I was a little scared when they put
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Speaker 2: him in, you know, on short rest, coming off a
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Speaker 2: thirty plus pitch outing again rookie in the biggest moment
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Speaker 2: of his life. He stayed calm, He delivered the stuff
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Speaker 2: look nasty. He's been so good in some outings. It
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Speaker 2: does It does make you wonder, like, do we have
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Speaker 2: to redefine what his ceiling could be and what could
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Speaker 2: that mean for this franchise because they kind of need
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Speaker 2: another another legitimate, like star level starter. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if he's that, but I think he's really good. You
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Speaker 2: gotta pray he's healthy. And can recover this offseason after
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Speaker 2: a weird year in which the team asked so much
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Speaker 2: of him, used him to pitch in different roles. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, hots off to Troy Melton for
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Speaker 2: everything he did, both in Game five and really throughout
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 3: I was pulling up the box score real quick.
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Speaker 1: It is amazing, Cody that this twenty five Tigers team
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Speaker 1: played a fifteen inning game and did not have a
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Speaker 1: single pinch hitter.
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Speaker 2: That is like, that's hard to process. That's hard to process.
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Speaker 2: In extra innings, there wasn't really a spot that called
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Speaker 2: for one, So that's not even a managerial criticism. And
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Speaker 2: a couple of times in the in the what do
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Speaker 2: you call what do you call the first nine innings
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Speaker 2: of a game regulation? I guess, yeah, that's that's not
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Speaker 2: really a baseball team regulation nine. Uh yeah, the standard nine.
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Speaker 2: I like that. You know, the the reason A J.
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Speaker 2: Hinch didn't pinch it the carpet bat that ended up
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Speaker 2: being a homer, and there might may have been another
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Speaker 2: bat or two was keep some left handed batters in
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Speaker 2: the game. And you know, for the late innings turned out,
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Speaker 2: the late innings ended up being fifteen innings it made
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Speaker 2: strategic sense for the most part, which is it's just weird.
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Speaker 2: It's just an additie of the game, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: Well, is there is there a point in a in
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Speaker 1: a game that just go that just keeps going on
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Speaker 1: and on and on that like like you can't anticipate
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Speaker 1: a fourteenth any decision in the eleventh, right, Like it's
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Speaker 1: just at a certain point you just kind of have
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Speaker 1: to just go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't really as what extraining at that would
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Speaker 2: you have pin shit somebody.
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Speaker 1: For No, That's what I'm saying, is that like like
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Speaker 1: like I'm just saying like at a certain point when
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Speaker 1: the game just keeps going, like you can't like like
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Speaker 1: the chess pieces are all spent, like metaphorically like you
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Speaker 1: can't like there's nothing to anticipate anymore because you've gone
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Speaker 1: past the standard nine, right, So like at a certain
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Speaker 1: point this like there's there's only so many decisions you
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Speaker 1: can make. You just kind of it and you run out.
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Speaker 1: Even though you had the guys on the bench, That's
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Speaker 1: why they.
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Speaker 2: Weren't out of the decisions. There just wasn't you know.
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Speaker 2: The Mariners were able to match up pretty well for
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Speaker 2: the most part, and there wasn't a glaring uh, and
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Speaker 2: it's high game. I think you get you got to
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Speaker 2: keep Parker Meadow's defense in there and extraining a couple
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Speaker 2: of times. Yeah, so I think it makes sense. The
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Speaker 2: one thing I almost hate to say this in a
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Speaker 2: game that was so good and so entertaining, but kind
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Speaker 2: of all night I was watching that unfold and I'm
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Speaker 2: just like, man, these players are fighting valiantly, but all all,
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Speaker 2: every one of the team's floss kind of also showed up.
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Speaker 2: And it's weird to watch a fifteen inning just beautiful
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Speaker 2: display at baseball and be thinking of like the front office.
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Speaker 2: But at a lot of points in that game, I
15:19
Speaker 2: was like the game in a lot of ways encapsulated
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Speaker 2: the Tiger season. You know, I kind of wrote this
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Speaker 2: it was it was all these things, and it was
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Speaker 2: ultimately not quite enough. You have a lineup that punches
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Speaker 2: way too much seventeen times. You have a bullpen that
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Speaker 2: wasn't quite deep enough. And I hate to do the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline thing, but again, if you had, for example,
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Speaker 2: David Bednar and Kyle Finnigan instead of Kyle Finnigan and
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Speaker 2: Rafael Montero, is this game different? Rafael Montero, who you
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Speaker 2: did not use. You know, the thinness of your bullpen
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Speaker 2: showed up in a big way. Some of the other
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Speaker 2: weaknesses of this team were just a parent and it
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Speaker 2: was hard for me to watch that game and not think,
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Speaker 2: imagine if you had one more piece here or one
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Speaker 2: more piece here. I don't know that that was an
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Speaker 2: active thought I had throughout that game. We're not going
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Speaker 2: to get into all the offseason stuff yet. We'll have
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Speaker 2: a pod next week after Scott Harris talks, probably addressing
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Speaker 2: it more. But seam really for for all the good
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Speaker 2: they have and for all the players they bring back,
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Speaker 2: they have some strange and hard decisions ahead of them.
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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I agree, I agree with that that
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Speaker 1: they it was it was very much their game, but
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Speaker 1: also very much not their game, and in terms of
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Speaker 1: just like how it played out, and and and the
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Speaker 1: guys that he relied on that had come up big
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Speaker 1: even just you know, the previous game just didn't happen
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Speaker 1: this time. I mean, look at mckinstrey one for six,
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Speaker 1: Keith Oh for five, you know, Torquoh for uh oh
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Speaker 1: for six.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's like.
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Speaker 1: You get, you get, you can miss, you can manage
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Speaker 1: your bullpen. You can try to pinch it this that
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Speaker 1: the other thing. Certain guys got hit man. Uh and
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Speaker 1: and again we'll we'll flect more about this, uh and
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Speaker 1: in in more broader terms next week. But I did
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Speaker 1: just want to say this, like I you know, I was,
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Speaker 1: my brother works overseas. Uh you know, obviously everybody knows
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Speaker 1: like my dad situation.
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Speaker 3: He's all good.
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Speaker 1: So I got to watch that game with my brother
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Speaker 1: and my dad, an old time an old time baseball
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Speaker 1: game that I'll remember forever, like that moment forever. So
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Speaker 1: I just want to reflect on that like that. It
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Speaker 1: was special. It was it was special to watch like
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Speaker 1: that kind of performance. You come up short watching school ble,
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Speaker 1: watching Carpenter. I'll be telling my grandkids about seeing those
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Speaker 1: guys in the postseason, you know what I mean. So
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Speaker 1: uh So I just want to say that that was
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Speaker 1: an amazing experience for me, even you know, with the
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Speaker 1: result of the game. And I know, uh, Cody, once
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Speaker 1: he gets a little bit more sleep in him, will
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Speaker 1: feel the same way about being able to have the
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Speaker 1: privilege and the honor to write and chronicle these historic
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Speaker 1: uh these historic events in the in the game that
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Speaker 1: we love and and so Yeah, I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: get that off the top of here or anything else, Cody
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Speaker 1: before we get out of here.
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Speaker 2: That's the weird thing about this game. Man, so many
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Speaker 2: twists and turns, so many moments, and yet it's so
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Speaker 2: hard to summarize or even pinpoint, like, well, what really
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Speaker 2: mattered most? No, I guess not, Like, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Do we want to talk about like the usage of
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Speaker 2: Tommy Kinley, Do we want to talk about the like
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Speaker 2: strategic decisions. I don't know. I guess it doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: at this point. It was ultimately a good year for
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Speaker 2: the Tigers. Really a really weird year and a really
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Speaker 2: stressful year. Again, it's going to be fascinating to see
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Speaker 2: what comes next In the end. The Tigers took the
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Speaker 2: weirdest possible path to the Alds Game five, But I think,
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Speaker 2: like I suppose it, I think it was kind of
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Speaker 2: fitting like this team again, they fought really hard, and
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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of this a lot of the
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Speaker 2: bad parts are on the players, the players who just
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Speaker 2: did not perform, some of them who just did not
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Speaker 2: play up to their capabilities. But this probably wasn't an
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Speaker 2: ALCS team as you watched it down the stretch, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, they were just, man, they just didn't have
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Speaker 2: enough in both Game five and in many other instances
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Speaker 2: down the stretch of this season. They were kind of
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Speaker 2: an Alds team, you know, And I think that is
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Speaker 2: better than sputtering out in the wild card round or
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Speaker 2: god forbid, missing the playoffs entirely. But this kind of ended,
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Speaker 2: and it's like it, well, it doesn't feel great, you know,
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Speaker 2: but it feels probably right. I think they kind of
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Speaker 2: ran out of the I think people or on the
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Speaker 2: Tigers get mad when you use the term smoking mirrors,
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Speaker 2: but they kind of ran out. The smoking mirrors were
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Speaker 2: only going to be able to carry them so far.
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Speaker 2: It carried them fifteen that and sheer willpower carried them
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Speaker 2: fifteen innings into the night. But for this to end
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Speaker 2: in the Alds the same place you ended last year,
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Speaker 2: it's tough. Sucks, it's unfortunate, it's probably fitting.
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Speaker 3: It's probably fitting.
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Speaker 1: You want to be one of the final four teams
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Speaker 1: in your league and have a chance, and they did that.
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Speaker 3: It's not good enough. The standard is raised.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that stuff throughout the offseason, but
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Speaker 1: this specific team, I do agree. It did feel like
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Speaker 1: it's it reached its natural it's natural endpoint. I all right,
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Speaker 3: We're not going anywhere.
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Speaker 1: We will be here throughout the off season, breaking it down, analyzing, predicting, overreacting,
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Speaker 1: doing all that good stuff because because we because we
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Speaker 1: enjoyed doing and we appreciate you guys a fun along
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Speaker 1: old season and like I said, stay tuned for an
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Speaker 1: interesting offseason. So for coach Daveenhagen, I'm Karen Steckley. Everybody,
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Speaker 1: have a great day.