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Tigers Cruise To Home Opener Victory · 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 Ball Territory Network a The Toroth Tiger's podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here Szechley with me as always as.
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  Speaker 1: A man who essentially lives at America Park during the summertime.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have to pay taxes on it. He is
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  Speaker 2: Cody saban Eggen. How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Would not want that property tax bill? I can they
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  Speaker 3: can safely say that doing good? We are fresh off
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  Speaker 3: the home opener recording here the night of spent a
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  Speaker 3: little time doing a lap around Kamerica Park, hung out
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  Speaker 3: with one of our old sponsors, Max Minoogian, who was
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  Speaker 3: a legend on the tailgate scene. Shout out Max and
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  Speaker 3: shout out to the Tigers seven to four victory, and
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  Speaker 3: the home opener had a little power to bombs from
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  Speaker 3: Carrie Bonds himself, Riley Green one fourteen point three exit
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  Speaker 3: v low and an nice outing from Jack Flaherty. Things
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  Speaker 3: got a little dicey there at the end, but I
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  Speaker 3: think you can chalk it up to a very good
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  Speaker 3: home open for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was a situation for me watching
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  Speaker 2: that game that.
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  Speaker 1: I I want to like psychoanalyze this game in sort
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  Speaker 1: of like a fun way. We're only talking about one
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  Speaker 1: game everybody, so we're so we're gonna I kept kind
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  Speaker 1: of trying to think. I was like, was this like a.
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  Speaker 2: Easy win?
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  Speaker 1: Because at one point seven to one and you feel
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  Speaker 1: pretty good and the Ada comes in and you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a misplayed by Kriydler, and you know it ends
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  Speaker 1: up being like a safe situation when you know seven
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  Speaker 1: to four.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little dice. He had a little error
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  Speaker 2: there at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a couple of things bounce Dingler bouncing, swinging, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: could have been a little.
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  Speaker 2: Weird, but that's baseball. That's baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I think overall, the Tigers should feel good because of
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  Speaker 1: the star power aspect of.
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  Speaker 2: This game.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Carrie, you mentioned Riley was the triple shore
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  Speaker 1: of the cycle. You know, Sweny got in the mix
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  Speaker 1: with with with the triple and robbed of a home
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  Speaker 1: run by America Park. But that's that's just how we
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  Speaker 1: roll a baby.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you had.
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  Speaker 1: Cold Keith get an extra base hit, like you know
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  Speaker 1: Dingler obviously with the RBI. Like I mentioned, like the
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  Speaker 1: star power and then the guys that you need to
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  Speaker 1: step up when you're short handed, like all that played out,
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  Speaker 1: and then also Jack Flaherty had himself a again just
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  Speaker 1: like the game, It's like, how good to feel about
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  Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty in that outing because you look at the
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  Speaker 1: final line, Cody, he's five point two, he allows only
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  Speaker 1: three hits, He's got seven k's. You know, he made
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  Speaker 1: some athletic and smart defensive plays today. So like overall,
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  Speaker 1: you look at that and you're like, yeah, Jack Flaherty,
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  Speaker 1: he looks like you're number two. Awesome, Like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a market I can't believe he got him for
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  Speaker 1: it was essentially one year deal.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff is fair.
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  Speaker 1: But kind of watching it, there were some moments where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, all right, like well, actually, don't even take
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  Speaker 1: my word for it. At one point Jack was flat
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  Speaker 1: frustrated enough to throw his glove in the dugout, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So he obviously wasn't feeling so good about himself at
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  Speaker 1: one point earlier in the game, and you you put
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  Speaker 1: on X Cody that like, you know, his his fastball
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  Speaker 1: be low basketball be low was kind of it had variants,
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  Speaker 1: I think it is a good way to put it.
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  Speaker 1: So after this start, only a couple hours after the start,
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  Speaker 1: how should we.
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  Speaker 2: Feel about Jack Flairy.
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  Speaker 3: That's deep. I don't. I don't know. Like he's had
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  Speaker 3: two very good starts by the numbers, very good. I
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  Speaker 3: think his execution today, clearly lacking his best stuff, was great.
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  Speaker 3: He did go two to walk at one point and
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  Speaker 3: that frustrated him. But otherwise, man, this guy was hitting
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  Speaker 3: his spots and he beat the White Sox with definitely
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  Speaker 3: not his best fastball. And we know all numbers from
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  Speaker 3: last year's show that fastball needs to be above ninety
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  Speaker 3: three ish miles an hour for Jack to have success.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't today. It averaged ninety two, topped out for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit at ninety four, and then by the
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  Speaker 3: middle innings it was sitting like ninety. It was kind
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  Speaker 3: of concerning. He threw one. I almost might slipped or
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  Speaker 3: something missed the strikes and buy a wide margin, but
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  Speaker 3: through one that was eighty eight, that's very concerning. Based
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  Speaker 3: on Jack Flerity's history. Now, if you want a fun exercise,
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  Speaker 3: go google Jack Flarity fastball velocity because he will find
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  Speaker 3: stories in a video of when he once got very
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  Speaker 3: mad at Saint Louis Cardinals reporters for asking him about
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  Speaker 3: his fastball. Velo told him they didn't understand the art
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  Speaker 3: of pitching, and so I had kind of gotten into postgame.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I know Jack's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: like if I ask about his velocity, so I'm I
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  Speaker 3: might be like, you know, asking like, hey, even you know,
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  Speaker 3: the velocity wasn't there? Seemed like you excelled at the
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  Speaker 3: art of pitching, you know, just kind of see what
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  Speaker 3: he says, I was considering doing that. I didn't. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have to, because Jack himself brought up I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have my best stuff. I didn't have my usual fastball velocity.
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  Speaker 3: He was very aware and maybe even a little bit
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  Speaker 3: bothered by that fact. So maybe that just signals growth
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  Speaker 3: from where he was a few years ago. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And it does leave you walking out of there a
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  Speaker 3: little bit unsure out of whether it was a little
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  Speaker 3: bit older, although for male standards it was pretty nice.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just see how he doesn't accounting where I think.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to overreact to it, but there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of data that Jack grow in ninety three ninety
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  Speaker 3: three five to be at his best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, and if there's like a team I
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  Speaker 1: mean disrespectfully, but there's a team to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: this kind of groove established, it would be the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox after having to go through the gauntlet that is
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, you know. So like there there's two ends
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  Speaker 1: of the spectrum. Jack has gotten it in his two starts.
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  Speaker 1: And I did want to bring up the like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things where like he did get let down,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Like what one of them, like as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you get the lead, it's a home opener, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a lot of emotions.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as you get the lead, you you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, you get you have a runner on and then
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  Speaker 1: a double down the left field line. Carpenter in left field,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Carpenter on historic pace of left field starts,
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  Speaker 1: uh for for his career. He doesn't start there all
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  Speaker 1: that often. He's already one short of last season's left
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  Speaker 1: field starts, so stands the reason that he'll probably get
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  Speaker 1: a couple more outings there the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, it feels it gets it in the Sweeney
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  Speaker 1: gets in the Dingler.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a great throw.
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  Speaker 1: It's in plenty of time though, Like Dingler's got to
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  Speaker 1: reach over and then go to the plate, and and
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  Speaker 1: and the the glove is there to beat the runner.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately the ball was not in the gloves. So uh so,
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  Speaker 1: just like I'm a big fan of it's gotta be
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  Speaker 1: a better throw. Dinglers also got to make that play.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of those like, all right, well we just
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  Speaker 1: took the lead on this team. That it's early season,
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  Speaker 1: everybody still believes in themselves, but like they also know
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  Speaker 1: that the team that they're they're playing a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: They know they're up against it. You allow them to
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  Speaker 1: get the momentum back. And then also hobber bias later
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Has it wasn't scored an error, but
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  Speaker 1: it is an air feeling the ball at third base,
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  Speaker 1: shot sharp ground ball and then missing the throw to second.
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  Speaker 1: So school scored a fielder's choice. Everybody's safe, but it
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  Speaker 1: really was an error. And and and then Jack's able
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  Speaker 1: to get out of that in part he makes the
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  Speaker 1: pitch to get the ground ball, Tork makes a great play,
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  Speaker 1: good transfer Sweeney, and then Jack, being the athlete that
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  Speaker 1: he is, get over the first And that's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how It's not like a spectacular defensive
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  Speaker 1: sequence that play there, Cody, but it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, like it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like it's not the most simple of sequences
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  Speaker 1: to execute, because you gotta be able to feel that,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta be able to throw it, you gotta have
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  Speaker 1: another throw, and the pitcher's gotta be able to get
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  Speaker 1: down the line there too, in a in an athletic fashion.
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  Speaker 2: So it feels like I'm explaining something simple.
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  Speaker 1: But it was like a above average, pretty good play
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  Speaker 1: all around to get to get out of that, and
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  Speaker 1: that's when it really could have been dicey. And after
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  Speaker 1: that is when the bats, you know, really started going.
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  Speaker 1: So like again, sometimes you look at the score, it's
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  Speaker 1: like the games. Sometimes the game's more in the balance
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  Speaker 1: than than than what you remember when you remember it's
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  Speaker 1: seven to one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Coming off that opening road trip, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we did talk a lot about the mistakes and the
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  Speaker 3: missed opportunities, and reality is there were more mistakes today.
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  Speaker 3: We're just not talking about them because the Tigers won
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  Speaker 3: and you're playing the White Sox, so you're probably there's
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  Speaker 3: a little more room for error. I guess we are
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  Speaker 3: talking about the mistakes. That's what this part of the
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  Speaker 3: segment is. So I'll like each play, the play at
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  Speaker 3: the plate. Yeah, the ball came out Dingler's glove, but
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  Speaker 3: that was on Sweeney. I think he thought about the throw.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it looked like to me. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: had all the time in the world make a good throw.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's out by a mile. He I think he paused,
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  Speaker 3: and he thought about it, and he left it a
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  Speaker 3: little bit wide. The play to Baiez. In the press box,
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  Speaker 3: they announced it was originally scored E five, and then
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  Speaker 3: they announced it's been changed to a fielder's choice no
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  Speaker 3: error because the fielder threw from his knees. They normally
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  Speaker 3: don't announce reasoning, so I don't know if that's new.
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  Speaker 3: I think. I guess maybe I'd have to watch it back.
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  Speaker 3: But on first glance, I think Hobby could have stood
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  Speaker 3: up and made a throw if he wanted to. He
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  Speaker 3: just didn't. And then also cold like it was a
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  Speaker 3: bad throw and I would have scored a E five.
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  Speaker 3: But in a way, it was a fieldable throw, a
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  Speaker 3: fieldable hop. I think there are some second basement in
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  Speaker 3: the league who would have handled that and at least
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  Speaker 3: got the out. At second you could argue Colt, who's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a first baseman. Now almost should have went
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  Speaker 3: more into first base mode. I think he was still
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  Speaker 3: trying to gather it and be able to throw it
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  Speaker 3: a first. I think that's also why Hobby threw first knees.
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  Speaker 3: He was just trying to be quick, but in a
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  Speaker 3: way like you know, the first play a little bit
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  Speaker 3: on Sweeney, partially on Dingler, the second play mostly on Hobby,
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  Speaker 3: but a little bit on Colt Keith too, and then
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  Speaker 3: credit where credits do. It was a sweet It was
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  Speaker 3: just a major league double play turn. Spencer Towrgelsen was
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  Speaker 3: I think quicker and just smoother than we've seen him
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  Speaker 3: at first base in the past. Could throw from Sweeney
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  Speaker 3: And like you said, Jack Flaherty, you want to talk
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  Speaker 3: positives of Jack Flaherty. I'm not sure every pitcher gets
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  Speaker 3: over to first base, but he really is an athlete,
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  Speaker 3: knows where to be, can move around. You don't see
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  Speaker 3: a lot of him in the field because he's a pitcher,
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  Speaker 3: but when you do, you're reminded, like Jack and Jack
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  Speaker 3: Flaherty can move and has a lot of athleticism about
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  Speaker 3: it that can help him in situations like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, like the athleticism was on display, like
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  Speaker 1: in the first inning. I don't want this to go
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  Speaker 1: unnoticed unmentioned either, But in the first inning, he feels
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  Speaker 1: that that little Dnkler Dinkler not Dingler Dinkler esque, low
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  Speaker 1: ground ball down the first base line, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of your instincts is to just kind of let that
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  Speaker 1: go because you think it's gonna it's gonna it could
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  Speaker 1: possibly go foul, or you're ahead of the runner anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter. He feels it pretty like,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't really let it go because he knows that there's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a runner on second, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: kind of have the ball to be able to dictate
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  Speaker 1: like what that runner is gonna do if you just
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  Speaker 1: kind of let it go, let it go, let it
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  Speaker 1: go that guy, could you know.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean?
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  Speaker 1: So I thought that was a heads up play too.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously gets the out, you know with the batter there too.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a heads up athletic play as well.
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  Speaker 1: So baseball i Q wise below one hundred for Jack
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  Speaker 1: For Jack Clarity, uh did have his best stuff with that.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to have your best of every start,
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  Speaker 1: certainly second best start or second start.
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  Speaker 2: Of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But the the the thing to feel the best about
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  Speaker 1: is the bats. And we're gonna talk more about the
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you weren't at the game, you were
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  Speaker 1: watching on on television or streaming as the kids call
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  Speaker 1: it these days. As I was, it's pretty fun to
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  Speaker 1: see Kerry Carpenter get to get to home runs. He
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  Speaker 1: just got it at the foul pole. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was on the the to the right, like the foul side,
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  Speaker 1: like he just got it. But Council the same. And
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  Speaker 1: then the best part, Cody. The best part is is
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  Speaker 1: Cannon comes out and it's obviously a lefty situation for
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  Speaker 1: Carpenter and I'm like, I mean, he doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of major league experience, but just the whole lefty thing.
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  Speaker 1: Your mind only automatically goes to all right, it was
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  Speaker 1: aj gonna do is he on leave him in?
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  Speaker 2: Here? Is he gonna, you know, get a little creative,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little early.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves him in, gets an opposite field home run that
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  Speaker 1: is his fifth, if my numbers are correct, career home
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  Speaker 1: run against a left handed pitcher. And then Riley Green
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  Speaker 1: comes up and gets a double and and I'm just like,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just in glee mode right now about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know, the left on left matchup, you
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  Speaker 1: leave your best hitters in, and you and and you
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  Speaker 1: live with that result. So I was really happy there.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we'll overreact there. Left on left doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: That's my Friday night overreaction after the home opener.
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  Speaker 3: Left on left matters, Kieran. It's simple math, but it
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  Speaker 3: was the right Both managers made the right call in
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  Speaker 3: that decision. Is so I kind of love it. I went,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: you know, I just story on Will Vinable this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Check it out on the Athletic if you haven't. I
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: went over to say hi to Will before the game,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm gonna I'm just gonna ask him,
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  Speaker 3: like what it's like matching up against the Tigers, and
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  Speaker 3: he kind of gave a little sliker and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're you know, we have to take some of this
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  Speaker 3: into consideration with their mix and match style and think
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  Speaker 3: about how we're going to strategize. So in a way,
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  Speaker 3: Will foreshadowed something like this and AJ for shadow something
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  Speaker 3: like this on like day two of spring training, being like,
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  Speaker 3: are people going to manage differently against us? Trying to
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  Speaker 3: chase Carry out of the game early. I don't even
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  Speaker 3: necessarily think Will Vinable did that with like, let's chase
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  Speaker 3: Carry out of the game, because if you leave the
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  Speaker 3: righting in a righty against Carry Carpenter is a terrible matchup,
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  Speaker 3: worse probably than Andy Ebanie is against lefty, especially Andy's
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  Speaker 3: been struggling for a while now getting back to last year.
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  Speaker 3: But so will mix the right call left on left
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  Speaker 3: or if he pitches Andy, we still like that better
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  Speaker 3: than Carrie, and that does get Carry out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: But I think he did it just better matchup Carrie
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  Speaker 3: versus lefty. I did write in my story Caleb Isert
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  Speaker 3: isn't exactly Josh Hater, so we should probably keep that
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  Speaker 3: in mind. And that's another ajaism is that not all
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  Speaker 3: lefties are created equal. This guy's probably a little more
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  Speaker 3: hittable than lefties on on other teams. But what's he do.
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  Speaker 3: He gives Carrie just a terrible pitch, just a lazy,
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  Speaker 3: hanging slider sweeper, and Carrie entered that at bat talking
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  Speaker 3: to him after the game. He entered that at bat
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  Speaker 3: kind of thinking like, this guy's stuff moves away from
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  Speaker 3: me a little bit, comes from a really wide arm angle,
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  Speaker 3: like maybe maybe, and tried to take him to left field.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of in the back of his mind. And
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly what he does. So great swing from Carp.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if it translates again. I think it's different
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  Speaker 3: facing this guy than it would be Vessi of the
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers or you know, name whatever top tier left you want.
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  Speaker 3: But I think Will Vinable made the right call, and
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  Speaker 3: I think a J. Hinch the reason he didn't pinch
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  Speaker 3: it early in the game. He wanted to Carp to
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  Speaker 3: stay in the game. Tigers had the lead, they weren't
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: desperate for runs. There were two outs, there was nobody
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: on base. There wasn't really gonna be a lot to
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: gain from making a move in that spot.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably more to lose because you take away exactly
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the rest of the game. And then and then Riley
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Green really earning his he got his cardio in with
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the double, and and then and then scoring, uh gotta
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: it kind of had something against Bette Attendy oul though.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: It was like hit it to uh, hit it to
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Bete Attendy get get get the double. And then and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: then torque tork with a like a what we talked
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: about last time, just like a clean straight on line
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: drive single. And Joey Korra doesn't care, he said, numb
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, a terrible throw. Uh, Green scores easily
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: just he was running.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, that was that was scouting.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Though.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: As much as we all want to be like Joey
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: cor Is aggressive and obviously he is. That was the
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: simple go look at Andrew Bennett Indy's stat cast or fangrafts.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: He's like negative four point four throwing runs arm runs. However,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: we phrase that actually not something I look at that much,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: because you have to be really bad to like stand out.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: And Andrew ben c Indy is is. Uh his throw
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: was bad enough and the sin was aggressive enough. The
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: first thing I did was like he must have a
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: terrible arm, right, Sure enough, he has a very bad arm.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: So part scouting, part aggressive mindset worked out too aggressive senshome.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: They both worked out for the Tigers on Friday.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again that's like, there's no like comeback element
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to this. There's no like gritty Tigers element to this.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: But your first game back playing in Detroit since last
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: year's you know, phenomenal run, and obviously the last game
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: ink America was a heartbreaker.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: But you still kind of got a good taste of
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: this what this team is all about. And and I
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: think that I like little theatrical elements.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't really mean anything, obviously, but I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: like theatrical elements, especially in front of the fans and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. So I hope everybody, if
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you went to the game, hope you had a good time.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I was definitely getting fomo.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I was going back and looking at the pictures from
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: when I went a couple of years ago for my
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: thirtieth birthday, and I was like, damn, who's there right now?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, Like, if you're a fan of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a team that opens the season on the road, you
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: get two opening day feelings. There's only one opening day,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: but you get two opening day feelings. You get the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: actual opening day and then the home opener.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: So it was good to see. I was like, say,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: good to see Carrie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I'd be curious to hear from some people who were there, like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: you know, shoots a note. I thought the environment something
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: about it was like, actually less rowdy than usual. Both
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the tailgates, although the one I went to for briefly
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: was pretty lit, like the whole scene just seemed a
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: little more tame, and then the game itself seemed a
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: little more just like less of a rowdy atmosphere, which
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't think because the weather was nicer than it
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: often is. Maybe that's for verse, like maybe people didn't
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: get as hammered because it wasn't as cold, maybe as
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: something like that, I don't know. And then the teams
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: entering this year with higher expectations than normal, so I
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: was like, this is going to be the greatest opening
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: day ever. I didn't quite feel that, but maybe I was.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe I just didn't spend enough time out there, you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: maybe the vibe just didn't penetrate through the press box windows.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it's possible Cody, that there's the two, the two
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and four start whatever. But like there's like you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: with the injury stuff that's kind of dominated the headlines,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Like does that kind of take away like some vibe stuff.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you I we don't have like anything
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: like wholly new. I know you might have, like you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: know a little they did put in an updata.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Talk talk to almost all our injured friends before the game.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I just I'm on concerned vibes until proven otherwise, Cody,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's not me with any insight sources,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but like basically what I'm saying is, if you're uncomfortable
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: with Bryan Kryler playing center field until some changes, like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that's something that you're probably gonna see. If you're if
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you're like why is Carrie getting a lot of left
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: field time? Like until some changes, there's probably some stuff
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: that you're gonna see.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That I still I still.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Want to remind everyone that eventually this is all going
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: to look different and you're not gonna have Ryan Kreidler
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: and you're gonna have a better third base situation. At
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: the same time, I am like from day one this
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: timeline just keeps getting pushed back. Talking to Matt Vierling today,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: he was in great spirits he normally is. He's Matt Vierling.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: He also said he's still not throwing, which isn't great.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I think I might have said recently on the podcast,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: like I hope we get a more substantial Vierling update,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and we kind of haven't. He still doesn't seem to
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: know like a real timeline. He said he's getting another MRI,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: which I'm not sure why, but I asked, Matt, has
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: this linger longer than you expected? And you know, he
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: kind of gave the answer. I never tried to have
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: an expectation, you know, I'm just trying to be responsible,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: which I guess checks out. But I don't know that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: You know, there's a world in which this was supposed
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: to be kind of a minor thing. He avoided the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: worst case scenario. Maybe he could be back a couple
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: of weeks into the season. Doesn't seem like that's gonna happen.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He's not even throwing yet. He has to do a
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: mini version of how a pitcher would do a do
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: a throwing progression. So I'm like, if he doesn't get
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: up and start throwing soon we could be talking sixty
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: dail for Matt Vierling, which is not great. I don't
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: think there's as desperate of a need for like Alex
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Cobb to return right now. But it's still even you know,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: he's up, he's throwing a bullpen. He's actually gonna throw
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: a live pp but he's you know, it's still a
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: little unclear when he would start a rehab assignment. Sounds
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: like he could start in low A before he goes
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: to Triple A and then Parker Meadows. I did get
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: a sense is like feeling a little little more bummed,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and we still don't. He said he's doing a little better,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: but he's still not throwing, So I guess that's the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: extent of my injury updates. The fun nugget is these
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: guys all watched Opening Day together in Lakeland. Time that
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and made him some steaks Texas guy. They gave the
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: grill the Texas Guy, which I appreciate, and Jose Orkidi
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: bought some pizza so and Wintle Pair as I believe,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: was there. He just had a second cortizone injection. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: all our injured friends were down there having a good
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: time together, which kind of kind of warms your heart.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, the brotherhood in that clubhouse, right,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, like I said, it's it's it's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: hard to get worked up about it because nothing's changing.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: But then at the same time, it's like nothing at
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: least outside. Obviously things are happening underneath the surface, but
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like outside, nothing's changing. So but that's also like partially concerning.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: So all right, we're gonna do a fan dual player spotlight.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I think this is very worthy. Cody I Reesulsen is
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: a guy that you and I are both really high on.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: He had himself a mediocre a little less of mediocre
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: outing against the Dodgers four point two four on runs.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: He had five k's and two walks. The reason I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: bring up Resulson here he's starting Saturday, is that there
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is a real possibility that Reesulsen gets kind of passed
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: in the mental the cognitive like usage rate among Tiger
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: fans by Jackson Job just because's Jackson Job. He's you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: he's the most hyped guy on the on the staff
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: other than school obviously.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And Casey Mice, who was awesome.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Right, So, like, like reason is the number three that's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: why he's you know, he's going after school ball and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: then after flirty but could like he could kind of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: go back in people's minds in terms of like excitement
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: about seeing results, in which I'm excited to see results
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and pitch every time he goes out there. I think
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Resulson is really really good. We uh, we predicted him
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: as like a not like a breakout, but like a
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: guy that's like, you know, people are gonna start like
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: really being like, oh, you realize how good resources it
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is because of the way that the last season ended.
• 25:29
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• 25:39
  Speaker 2: So results really.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Curious at home now, you know, not against the Dodgers,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: see him seeing flashes stuff a little bit.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah uh, you guys know me. I'm all about stuff
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: plus now pitch modeling. How nasty is this guy? Resoulson
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: after his first outing graded out at one oh nine
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: stuff plus last year he was ninety five. So think
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: of like other stats one hundred as kind of league
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: average results And that's twenty fifth in among starting pitchers
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: in MLB. Right, now better than Casey Miz, better than
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty, results in stuff wise, even better than he
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: was last year, better than some other starters who we've
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: been talking about a lot. Don't sleep on results, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: that's all I got to say. He's got a bunch
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: of different pitches. He can get creative, and I just
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: wouldn't rule this guy out, especially, you know, if the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: pitch modeling didn't actually quite back up his success last year.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: So far this year it's shown us that he has improved.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yep, And you can watch him blackout free at Vanduelsportsdow
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  Speaker 1: an extended free trial. All right, that's a little bit
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of business here, Cody. On Thursday night, you broke some news.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: The Tigers vice President'm to try to make this get
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: this title correct. Vice president and assistant general manager Sam
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Menzen resigned. He had been with the teams ince twenty twelve. That,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: like I said, you broke the news. I want to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: give you the the you know, just a player, spotlight, journalist, spotlight.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: You broke the news. So what can what can you
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: kind of say about about that situation?
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily a lot right now. You know, Sam had
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: been with the organization a long time since the Dave
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Dombrowski era started in the very low low wrungs. He
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: once joked to me that, you know, he had the
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: George Costandra Costanza job assistant to the traveling Secretary, rose
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: all the way to assistant GM. He did resign. The
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: reasoning was unclear. The team did not issue a statement.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Menzen did not offer any sort of comments. So, looking
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: into this further, the timing is certainly interesting. That's probably
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: about all I can say right now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so uh changes, changes in the front office,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and we'll see what comes of it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: We will be back Monday talking about the two games
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that are follow the home opener, and also we'll give
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: our takes on some of the stadium changes, not just
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: seat related, but some of the stadium changes. I'm a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: miss one aspect of the ballpark selfishly, but I'll leave
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that as a tease right now.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Well, to thank everybody for listening.
• 28:32
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• 28:45
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• 28:48
  Speaker 1: is sure to be an interesting and fun season. So
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for Cody Stavenhagen, I'm Kieran Secley. Everybody, have great day.