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Cody Stavenhagen’s Tigers update · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Tiger Territory host and the athletic beat reporter on the Tigers,
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  Speaker 2: Cody staven Hagen joining us right now.
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  Speaker 1: Cody, do the Tigers have a pulse?
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  Speaker 3: I think they have a pulse, but it's getting lighter
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  Speaker 3: by the day, right. I mean, this has gotten bad.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like it. I don't really know
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  Speaker 3: how to describe it. I don't have a lot else
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  Speaker 3: to say. It has been a very bad stretch of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: They're not getting any breaks, their rosters turned into a mess.
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  Speaker 3: Now they're fighting for their lives.
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  Speaker 4: Before we get into like the team and the issues
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  Speaker 4: and the problems and the questions, is this the worst
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  Speaker 4: off day that you can remember for this team in
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  Speaker 4: a sense that they have to wake up today and
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  Speaker 4: not play a game, staring at the fact that they've
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  Speaker 4: been one to nine in their last ten or is
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  Speaker 4: this the best off day possible? Regroup, everybody's ready to go,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a fresh day tomorrow with your ace on
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  Speaker 4: the hill.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of a good question. Eric I asked Spencer
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  Speaker 3: turkles In that after the game yesterday, like you have
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  Speaker 3: an off day, are you gonna think about baseball? Are
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  Speaker 3: you gonna totally unplug. Somewhere in between, he said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: totally unplugging. He said, we're all just disconnecting, not thinking
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  Speaker 3: about baseball. I kind of hope that's what these guys do.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're spending their off day in Cleveland, So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Zach Meisel, my colleague, wrote, wrote some funny lines.
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to go up to the Rock and
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  Speaker 3: Roll Hall of Fame and play a little garage band?
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  Speaker 3: Are they gonna go out to the zoo? They should
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  Speaker 3: do something like that, because the more you press, the
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  Speaker 3: more you worry about baseball, the more you worry and
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  Speaker 3: dive into the numbers and the scouting reports. Doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: like that stuff has been working for him. So I
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  Speaker 3: hope they're having a nice time and maybe can come
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  Speaker 3: back freshened up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that what happened at the All Star break? Cody?
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  Speaker 2: And then I think they had a really bad start
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  Speaker 2: to the second half of the season. So are they
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  Speaker 2: sure they want to do a reset where you just
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  Speaker 2: float away and have a nice boat days.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fair question. They had sick at the All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game, because remember they were really good in the
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  Speaker 3: first half, so I don't know. Maybe those were the
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  Speaker 3: guys who needed to float away on the boat somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so take me to the trade deadline, because we
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  Speaker 2: were discussing this, were the Tigers smashed enough for doing
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  Speaker 2: a quantity over quality trade deadline? As I saw you
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  Speaker 2: retweet yesterday. I'm forgetting the name, but we can show
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  Speaker 2: the tweet again at some point here. How many pictures
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  Speaker 2: were brought in and how many pitchers are now not
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  Speaker 2: on the roster anymore. So, like when you add up
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  Speaker 2: all of the trade deadline, what did they actually get
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  Speaker 2: and how much did they miss out on going after
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  Speaker 2: big boys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been crushed a lot for the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 3: both at the time and especially now. They got Kyle Finigan,
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  Speaker 3: who had an aisle stint that's been really good. He's
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  Speaker 3: only allowed one run. Rafael Montero, one of these project guys.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, Okay, really he's been pretty good. They've
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  Speaker 3: helped him get better. They really needed to add swing
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  Speaker 3: and mister to their bullpen. Those two guys have actually
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  Speaker 3: done a decent job helping. I think if you were
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  Speaker 3: to ask the Tigers and be like, well, why didn't
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  Speaker 3: you get a closer they'd be like, well, what he
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  Speaker 3: wants to get Ryan Helsley, He's been awful, And I
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  Speaker 3: think that is the thinking that led to this approach.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get a bunch of guys, throw it at the wall,
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  Speaker 3: hope a couple of them stick. Kind of a risky
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  Speaker 3: approach in itself, though, Is that really a better approach
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  Speaker 3: than just going and getting a couple of dudes who
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  Speaker 3: throw one hundred and are really hard to hit. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the big question here. But the worst thing
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  Speaker 3: they did was go get two starters. Charlie Morton and
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  Speaker 3: Chris Paddock both came relatively inexpensive, and Morton's no longer
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  Speaker 3: on the team. Chris Paddock's been demoted to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: He's hanging on by a thread. I was one of
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  Speaker 3: few banging the drum for like, you need to reinforce
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  Speaker 3: this rotation. You're an injury away from being in a
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  Speaker 3: bad spot. Reese Alsen got hurt. You got two guys.
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  Speaker 3: One of them was forty one came to you with
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  Speaker 3: an ERA around six. The other Chris Paddock, just hadn't
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  Speaker 3: really been that good for a couple of years. Now
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  Speaker 3: they have failed spectacle and the Tigers have tried to
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  Speaker 3: kind of do the cute thing where they cycle in
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  Speaker 3: and out a bunch of different pitchers, turn the roster,
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  Speaker 3: turn the bullpen every series. They did that last year
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  Speaker 3: and it worked. They're showing why that's not necessarily the
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  Speaker 3: most sustainable approach because it hasn't worked this time around.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're entering the biggest series of the year with
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  Speaker 3: some relievers stuck in the option cycle and with a
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  Speaker 3: bullpen that just doesn't look very good beyond one or
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  Speaker 3: two guys.
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  Speaker 4: Did this happen quick? To the to the clubhouse, the
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  Speaker 4: vibe when you walked in there, Did it happen quick?
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  Speaker 4: Where they're like, whatever, we got this, we got this?
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  Speaker 4: Holy crap, we don't got it? Or has it been
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  Speaker 4: like a slow build here through these last ten games
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  Speaker 4: slash two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's been kind of quick. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: can go back to June and the Tigers were playing
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  Speaker 3: closer to five hundred ball than being the team they
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  Speaker 3: were in May. But they had such a big game
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  Speaker 3: in a big lead in the Ale Central it never
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  Speaker 3: really felt like it. They lost twelve to thirteen at
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  Speaker 3: one point in July and it wasn't great, But you
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  Speaker 3: look at the standings and be like, Okay, well there's baseball.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna snap out of it. And I think that
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  Speaker 3: was kind of the mentality, and they lost a couple
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  Speaker 3: of games. I was with the team in Miami and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, it feels oddly tense in here. And
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  Speaker 3: since then, maybe it's been slower since then, but the
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  Speaker 3: last ten days it's like every day feels a little worse,
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  Speaker 3: a little tighter, a little more quiet, and now you
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  Speaker 3: look up and you're fighting for their lives. So one
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  Speaker 3: of those things that happened gradually and then suddenly kind
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  Speaker 3: of all at the same time.
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  Speaker 5: Cody, how much of this, though, do you think was
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  Speaker 5: a lack And I've said this, I thought they would
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  Speaker 5: turn around once they got it back in their division.
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  Speaker 5: Is a lack of I don't want to say focus
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  Speaker 5: because that's not the right thing, but lack of you know,
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  Speaker 5: immediacy and like we have to go now, because they're like,
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  Speaker 5: oh we have a ten game lead. Oh we still
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  Speaker 5: have a seven game lead, we still have a five
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  Speaker 5: game lead. And they never were able to get that
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  Speaker 5: urgency and ready to go and the fire back, and
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  Speaker 5: now they have to try and find it and a
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  Speaker 5: lot of times. What you see happen is once you
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  Speaker 5: lose it, it's really hard to get it back.
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  Speaker 4: For most teams, can they do that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's the big question. I don't know. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: trying to question the competitive character of those guys, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't envy them having to stand in front of
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  Speaker 3: the cameras every day and try to explain this when
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  Speaker 3: they're the ones on the field kind of getting their
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  Speaker 3: teeth kicked in right now, but they're being tested. That's
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  Speaker 3: the huge question. Can you turn this around? I do
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  Speaker 3: think there must have been some element of not coasting,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just different when you're up ten, twelve, fourteen games.
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  Speaker 3: You're not playing with that pressure. You're also not playing
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  Speaker 3: with urgency. I think that must have set in subconsciously.
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  Speaker 3: And then you wonder too, when your front office doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really go get you some real horses at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 3: what message does that send to the team When your
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  Speaker 3: front office and you know, the coaching staff, they're bumping
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  Speaker 3: guys back to build an extra rest, they're kind of
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  Speaker 3: giving these retread pitchers tryouts because hey, we have a
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  Speaker 3: ten game division lead, we can do this. What kind
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  Speaker 3: of message does that send to the players and then
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  Speaker 3: all this builds up and suddenly you're in a really
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  Speaker 3: really bad spot on the verge of a historic collapse.
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  Speaker 4: To me, I would kind of buck against that. It
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  Speaker 4: sends confidence, Hey, we don't need that many people. We
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  Speaker 4: think what you guys are doing, even though they are
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  Speaker 4: all above everybody's norms for their career or their last
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  Speaker 4: like three or four years, we believe in you. So
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  Speaker 4: I would kind of buck against that that. If a
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  Speaker 4: front office can back the current players on the field,
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  Speaker 4: that gives them a vote of confidence. But now you're
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  Speaker 4: in the case where a guy like Colt Keith goes
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  Speaker 4: down he wasn't producing to like this MVP level. Do
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  Speaker 4: they not have enough depth to fill that in? And
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  Speaker 4: along with that depth, you knew howve Bayas was going
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  Speaker 4: to come down from where he was if the team
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  Speaker 4: was in another situation. Would Hovey Bias have played himself
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  Speaker 4: out of a position for the postseason in the way
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  Speaker 4: that he's played in asked two and a half months.
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  Speaker 3: The funny thing about that, Eric is I've kind of
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  Speaker 3: been advocating for Hobby Bias to play more because the
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  Speaker 3: guy who's been playing over him, Tray Sweeney has a
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  Speaker 3: WRC plus of one in the second half. He's given
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  Speaker 3: you equal to worse production than Hobby at the plate.
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  Speaker 3: And there's still some small things Hobby Bias does in
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  Speaker 3: the field during the game that can be complete difference makers.
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  Speaker 3: Hobby Bias has had a terrible second half. He's playing
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  Speaker 3: like the guy who we weren't sure if he was
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  Speaker 3: gonna be brought back on the roster. But to your point, Eric,
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  Speaker 3: like the alternative might be worse, and the alternative beyond
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  Speaker 3: Tray Sweeney in the organization, at least on the forty
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  Speaker 3: man roster, is nothing. They have gotten in a weird
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  Speaker 3: spot where especially left handed bats on the farm, they
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  Speaker 3: don't really have anything other than Kevin McGonagall, who's in
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  Speaker 3: double A, and it doesn't seem like they want to
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  Speaker 3: bring up And I don't necessarily blame him for not
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  Speaker 3: one to throw McGonagall into that situation, but yeah, the
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  Speaker 3: depth is thinned out. You had a guy in Jase
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  Speaker 3: Young who's on this roster, replaced Keith time Prospect a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years ago. They oh, they didn't want to
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  Speaker 3: block him whatever, his development has really tapered off. It's
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  Speaker 3: funny how I think every team probably enters the season
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  Speaker 3: thinking they have depth, and then you get to August September,
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  Speaker 3: you look up and your depth can evaporate pretty quickly
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  Speaker 3: based on injuries, based on underperformance. I think that's certainly happened,
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  Speaker 3: where now you kind of have two short stops who
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  Speaker 3: might not be on a lot of other rosters or
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so let's bring everyone in for a moment. I'm
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  Speaker 2: putting my dukes up for a sec. To what Kratz said,
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  Speaker 2: AJ chime in. If at the trade deadline, you don't
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  Speaker 2: bring in a big boy, like if you're the Tigers
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  Speaker 2: and you don't go for a Duran or we talked
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  Speaker 2: about even a bat because they had flexibility at Ginosuirez
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. Are you telling your team, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we believe in you, we don't need anything. Are you
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  Speaker 2: telling your team we don't want to trade any prospects'
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  Speaker 2: on the ten year plan?
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  Speaker 4: How do I know you?
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  Speaker 1: Look, if you were in the clubhouse and you're the Tigers, Well, if.
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  Speaker 5: You're in the clubmost you don't care about the prospect
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  Speaker 5: because you want to win now, so you take care.
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  Speaker 5: So you're like, all right, Well, they must think we're good.
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, trust me, there are people
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  Speaker 5: that were complaining in the clubhouse that they didn't go
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  Speaker 5: out and make a bigger move.
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  Speaker 2: Because even if you think you're really good, like you
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  Speaker 2: don't think you need any help in the playoffs, you
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  Speaker 2: don't think you need another big boy in the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: or it's another back.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely guys complaining about it.
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  Speaker 5: I promise you there was guys playing why.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't we do more?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: How did you feel at the time, Cody that the
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  Speaker 2: clubhouse reacted to the trade deadline?
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get a sense for it. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's been a reminder that this is a pretty young team.
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  Speaker 3: This is a lot of guys who are still trying
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  Speaker 3: to establish their careers, trying to stay in line. If
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  Speaker 3: they had a problem with the organization, they weren't going
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  Speaker 3: to be saying that to me or anyone in the media.
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  Speaker 3: I did say at the time, like, maybe this is
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  Speaker 3: a vote of confidence in the guys in the group,
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  Speaker 3: But then yeah, like to your point, these guys want
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  Speaker 3: to win, they want to win the World Series, and
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  Speaker 3: I think they would know they would feel better if
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  Speaker 3: they they got another big horse in that room. One
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  Speaker 3: thing I want to point out, and it's not really
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  Speaker 3: a defensive of the Tigers, but there's so much focus
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  Speaker 3: on the trade deadline, and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: other teams that would like the Mets, that were more
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  Speaker 3: aggressive and it didn't work out. But the Tigers are
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  Speaker 3: getting blasted for the trade deadline in part because of
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  Speaker 3: other bad decisions they've made along the way. Alex Cobb
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  Speaker 3: Kin Tamaiita. They spent twenty five million on those two pitchers,
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  Speaker 3: they got nothing out of them. They signed John Brebia,
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  Speaker 3: they dfa'd him before the All Star break. You add
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  Speaker 3: in a couple injuries, they didn't close the door, or
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  Speaker 3: they didn't get the Alex Bregman deal done. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: go after a guy like Hasung Kim, who is available
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  Speaker 3: again mid season. Some of the waiver claims victories they've
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  Speaker 3: had on the margins over the past couple of years
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  Speaker 3: haven't really been any of those this year. So then
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  Speaker 3: when you don't have that depth, when you have needs
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  Speaker 3: in the rotation and elsewhere, and you don't do it
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  Speaker 3: at the trade deadline, everyone's pointing to the deadline saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't you do more. In a way, it's a
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  Speaker 3: function of bigger and smaller decisions for the past ten
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  Speaker 3: twelve months.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, part of it to me is I do think
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  Speaker 2: front offices look at their biggest wins as those pickups
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  Speaker 2: like Kyle Fitigain. You can make a case for right
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  Speaker 2: not highly coveted, and then it comes over here.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, throw away more splitters. Oh look look
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  Speaker 1: what we did, and you can kind of brag about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as easy to.
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  Speaker 2: Pull off when you're convincing your owner for more money
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  Speaker 2: and we're trading more prospects. So, Cody, do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like this front office is digging too deep into, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bargain hunting versus going for a big fish when clearly
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  Speaker 2: they had that ability, right they went for Alex Bregman.
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  Speaker 2: They just weren't able to close it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's been their approach. Bregman's really the
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  Speaker 3: only big guy they have pursued in a serious manner
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  Speaker 3: under this current regime. And look, a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 3: you're still building up. You're trying to see what young
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  Speaker 3: guys you have that makes sense. You're coming off a
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  Speaker 3: playoff run and you added Tommy Kinley and Alex Cobb
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  Speaker 3: and John Breber. Yet Labor Tourists was a pretty nice signing,
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  Speaker 3: had a great first half as tapered off in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. But it's a one year deal. They like
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  Speaker 3: their one year deals, They like their flexibility. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: know long term deals are scary, right, there's some risk
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  Speaker 3: built in there, but I think the second half has
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  Speaker 3: shown that, Like, hey, the matchups, the mixing and the matching,
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  Speaker 3: all that is great. There's a reason a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams prefer to still just go get really good players.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes that's the more reliable way to win games.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Cody, we got to remember they control their
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  Speaker 4: own destiny. Take us to this week. They have Scooble
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  Speaker 4: going twice. It seems like I think they face Viby,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not Cleveland's horses, their hottest pitchers. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: how does this week play out to me? And we
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  Speaker 4: talked about earlier. Looks like it's a Tiger's advantage because
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  Speaker 4: they have Scooble going twice. It doesn't look great for
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, but they got to get in first.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think in an ideal world you don't have
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  Speaker 3: scoopol going twice because you win some games and you
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  Speaker 3: push them off that last day in Boston. Trek Scouoble
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  Speaker 3: is this team's great equalizer. They're great trump card. He's
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  Speaker 3: the best thing this organization has going. And you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: give him the ball in a big game and hope
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  Speaker 3: he can give you, you know, seven shutty or something
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  Speaker 3: to that effect, help you get off the schneide, and
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  Speaker 3: then hey, maybe you steal one more in Cleveland. Maybe
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: you're feeling a little better about yourself. We'll see. You
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: don't want to lose that Schooble start. They've lost three
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: of their past five Trek Scougle starts. But if there's
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: anything to make you feel better, I think you're right.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I think it's Schoogle.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: All right, I messed up. I thought Gavin Williams just pitched.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: So the Guardians do have their two best going. They
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: have Gavin Williams and Tanner Biby. I thought he pitched
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: on Sunday. I was mistaken. So Tigers are cooked.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: My bad.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Well, they're getting a Guardians team that I mean is
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: historically good in the last few weeks in run prevention,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: So goody. The rest of the way here, it's three
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: against the Guardians and then scoreboard watching gets really weird
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: because at one point not long ago, it looked like
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox were just gonna kind of be firmly
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: in one of those wild card spots.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: They're not.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: They have to finish strong, so we might get to
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: that final series of the year where the Tigers need
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: to win and oh wait, the Red Sox are on
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Cruis in either so that's their last three games of
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the year in Boston. So how daunting is this schedule
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: here for them?
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: It's not ideal, but it's gonna be some fun baseball.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be some real atmosphere, some tense, tight atmospheres.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: The Tigers and Guardians play each other, you know, fighting
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: tooth and nail all the time. You're gonna go into
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: what could also be a big series in Boston with
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Alex Bregman playing third base for the other team. Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's what you want. You'd probably
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: rather face the White Sox or the Rockies right here,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: But this is what you got. It'll be fun. Last
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: year I covered a team that over cane zero point
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: two percent playoff odds and had a historic run. This year,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I'm covering a team that is on the verge of
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: blowing ninety nine point nine percent playoff odds and having
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: a historic collapse. So I'm so far out of the
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: prediction business. Tigers went on go five and one down
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: the stretch and go to the World Series and wouldn't
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: shock me. But also watching this team for the past month,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: it wouldn't shock me if they end up being toasted.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. I mean you look at the run
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: for Cleveland.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: They're doing this without Emmanuel Class, They're doing this without
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Louis Ortiz to a lesser extent, but still they traded
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: away Shane Biebert, a crazy story that we did not
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: expect to be covering this way. Cody, good stuff. Enjoy
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: covering the week as a writer, It's fun to cover chaos,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: So enjoy that. We'll be watching, we'll be looking at
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the articles, and we'll be listening and watching Tiger Territory.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Man, Hey, thanks guys, appreciate it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Tiger Territory is going to be a rollercoaster this week. Kieran, Cody,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: some Austin Jackson. Go check it out wherever you get
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: your podcasts, or of course on YouTube.