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First Place Tigers Are All Bought In · 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, a Detroit Tigers podcast. I'm Karen Stickle.
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  Speaker 1: We got Austin Jackson, we got Cody Stavenhagen, and we
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  Speaker 1: got a baseball team to talk about, gentlemen, that is
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  Speaker 1: in soul keeps of the best record in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And yes it's the Detroit Tigers. The Detroit Tigers, the
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  Speaker 1: best record major League Baseball as of recording right now.
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  Speaker 1: Feels weird to say, but after a exhilarating three game
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  Speaker 1: series against the Boston Red Sox, that's where we're at, guys,
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  Speaker 1: that's where we're at, the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: As Austin. Austin put in the call last time he
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  Speaker 2: was here, and.
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  Speaker 3: We not we ain't tripping on. We already knew what
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  Speaker 3: we was talking about. Like, we're not even worried about that.
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  Speaker 3: We already knew that this is going. We just we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out if it's gonna keep going. So
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  Speaker 3: we already knew this was gonna happen. We ain't surprised,
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  Speaker 3: come on.
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  Speaker 4: What a series, man, Like, Like we were talking last
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  Speaker 4: time in the Hobby bayas game was that the most
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  Speaker 4: exciting game since win, you know, but that whole series.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's justin Harry Malloy said, it felt like
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and it kind of did something about it.
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  Speaker 4: I think just the weight that was kind of on
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  Speaker 4: each pitch. You had two teams, I mean, the Red
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  Speaker 4: Sox are you know, they have their drama going on.
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  Speaker 4: They're not playing as well as they would like to be,
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  Speaker 4: but they do a lot of things well. Like it
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  Speaker 4: was two teams that were not really giving each other
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  Speaker 4: an inch, and I think you could feel that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: every pitch throughout the course of especially those final two games.
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  Speaker 5: Then the Rents that team you said that they you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're not playing as well, but that's a team over there.
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  Speaker 6: Those guys can play.
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  Speaker 5: They got some defenses that you know, guys that can
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  Speaker 5: play defense over there.
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  Speaker 6: They swung the bats well.
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  Speaker 5: And it was just fun to see like that playoff
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  Speaker 5: type environment with with both of the teams really and
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  Speaker 5: to see how the Tigers responded to, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of pressure that was put on them. That's
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  Speaker 5: what I'm that's what I'm most curious about seeing with
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  Speaker 5: this team is how they can respond to that pressure.
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  Speaker 5: Man they answered all the calls to me, and I
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  Speaker 5: just I like that when you know the pressure was
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  Speaker 5: on them, they still they stayed the same team.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they stayed the same team.
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  Speaker 5: At any given moment, any guy can step up there
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  Speaker 5: and get the job done, man.
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  Speaker 6: And that's that's the type of playoff team that you
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  Speaker 6: keep going to be looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, like I'm I'm kind of a
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  Speaker 1: sick a fan in some ways, and I went and
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  Speaker 1: listened to like a bunch of Red Sox like centric
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  Speaker 1: like podcasts to kind of see what they're saying. And
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  Speaker 1: they're voicing like a lot of frustration with how the team, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you throw away Monday's game, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes as happens, right, you throw away Monday's game, but
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  Speaker 1: you you know, you you come back and you blow
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  Speaker 1: it on Tuesday, and then you come back and you
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  Speaker 1: and you or you can't hold, you can't add on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: and then you eventually lose in a second consecutive walk off.
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  Speaker 1: And they're really frustrated because they view, I think rightfully
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  Speaker 1: so that the Red Sox are capable of doing some
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  Speaker 1: real damage in the American League. And you know, you
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  Speaker 1: make a crochet trade. You trade, yeah, crochet trade. That's
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  Speaker 1: fun to say, real quick, and then you signed Bregman.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the kind of expectations that you have. And
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  Speaker 1: so they're looking at it as a loss. It's still
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're still not necessarily looking at the targets
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  Speaker 1: as like this measuring stick. Mean, that's okay, it's it
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  Speaker 1: is still early May. But the connections. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things I love is the connections that these two franchises
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  Speaker 1: have as presently constructed, because you have the obvious a
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  Speaker 1: J Hinch mentor and student with Alex Cora, and then
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  Speaker 1: you have the Joey Kora his brother element as well.
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  Speaker 1: There's the Bregmann piece, which is a twofold one connection
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  Speaker 1: to Ajhinch two was it ninety eight percent of the
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  Speaker 1: time Cody nine nine percent of the time, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be into Troy and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, proved that he could hit in k America
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  Speaker 1: Park by the way to home runs that that that
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  Speaker 1: cleared the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: So not for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. And then just like the like the what you
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  Speaker 1: said coded like they actually tried to put pressure on
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  Speaker 1: the other team in a lot of similar ways. Again
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  Speaker 1: because they probably come from very much the same school
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  Speaker 1: of baseball, so this was it was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch. I think we the The number one
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  Speaker 1: takeaway I had was you get the sweep and that's
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  Speaker 1: the headline, and that feels real good. But it's not
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  Speaker 1: like you got everything that you did worked out perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the aj Hinch puppet master element that
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of going around on MLB Network this
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  Speaker 1: week because a lot of the moves he made, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pitching chaos day and then even even on Wednesday, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't work as intended and that's okay, that's part
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  Speaker 1: of it. That's going to that you have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to, I want to say, overcome like he made
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  Speaker 1: a mistake, but you have to be able to move
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  Speaker 1: on from that and still find ways to win, in
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  Speaker 1: which they did both both Tuesday and Wednesday. Because we
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  Speaker 1: have to mention it your best pitching performance arguably of
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  Speaker 1: the week. Did it argue with respect to Trek schoolble?
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  Speaker 1: Did it come from Jackson Joe on a day that
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  Speaker 1: you had schoolbl and a pitching chaos day? Did you
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  Speaker 1: get the best from Jackson Joe? Could the argument be
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  Speaker 1: made because we didn't we didn't get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it. He only had to go five and
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  Speaker 1: two thirds, but he had three hits, one run, seven strikeouts.
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  Speaker 1: He did walk five, but obviously it was a non
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  Speaker 1: competitive game early on. But that was a performance that
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  Speaker 1: in any other circumstance we'd probably be doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of talking about, and it kind of got lost in
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of everything. So I did want to at
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  Speaker 1: least give him credit, even if you know you didn't
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  Speaker 1: pitch quite as well.
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  Speaker 2: As Derek School.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think scog Will still had the best performance
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  Speaker 4: of the week. He punched out eleven. It was kind
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  Speaker 4: of strange how quickly things unraveled on him, and then
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  Speaker 4: Holton came in allowed a couple of inherited runners to score.
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  Speaker 4: Like there's a world where that line score reads a
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  Speaker 4: lot differently. Jackson job start, though, I do think elements
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  Speaker 4: of it were the best yet, even though you don't
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  Speaker 4: like seeing that five walks, but you can almost just
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  Speaker 4: see and feel him learning how to use this stuff,
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  Speaker 4: learning how to sequence. I think that was probably the
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  Speaker 4: best he's had four pitches going in one outing, like
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  Speaker 4: he was attacking hitters in different ways. The changeup was there,
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  Speaker 4: mixed in the curve a little bit with some success
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  Speaker 4: beginning to command. I know, I walked five guys, but
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  Speaker 4: in spurts he's commanding the fastball really well. Like that
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  Speaker 4: seemed the best his full arsenal kind of meshed together
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  Speaker 4: from what I picked up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I the kid is the kid is.
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  Speaker 5: I think that rested him, did him a little good.
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  Speaker 5: I think we can all agree. But in regards to
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  Speaker 5: schoogle Man, I mean, even though I guess you know,
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't the best outing that we see because we're
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  Speaker 5: normally just used to seeing him dominate, right, But the
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  Speaker 5: games are gonna go like that sometimes. Sometimes they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get a little weird and guys are gonna start putting
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  Speaker 5: string and some hits together. Guys are gonna get the
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  Speaker 5: bad head out and clap one. But the resilience of
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  Speaker 5: this this baseball team right here to say, all right,
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  Speaker 5: y'all got our guy, but y'all we're not down and out,
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  Speaker 5: like we can still put together these these type of
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  Speaker 5: ad bats. And I'm speaking, you know, specifically about this,
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  Speaker 5: this Tiger's lineup, and this the grittiness of this lineup,
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  Speaker 5: the way that they're able to manufacture these runs and
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  Speaker 5: just wear pitchers down. You know, you get to see
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  Speaker 5: this this lineup two or three times, about time you
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  Speaker 5: get to that third time seeing this team, they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: get you. And there was some balls hit hard earlier
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  Speaker 5: before that, but like again, when you get to them,
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  Speaker 5: about the third time, they're gonna get to you. And
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  Speaker 5: that's that's what they did. They were able to wear
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  Speaker 5: down a picture. They were able to pick up so
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  Speaker 5: much information within those first couple innings or first time
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  Speaker 5: facing facing them, and then they just they just warmed down, got.
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  Speaker 6: Runners in sporm position.
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  Speaker 5: This is the type of baseball that that I think
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  Speaker 5: that we enjoy seeing this team play on a day
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  Speaker 5: in and day out basis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wanted to talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: about that mentality in the buy in element of that
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  Speaker 1: All right, So coming back here, I wanted to because Cody,
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  Speaker 1: you wrote about this. It's on the Athletic. You're a subscriber.
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  Speaker 1: You guys can go read that. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: mentality stuff it has kind of come up.
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  Speaker 2: It comes up every day.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe that's also the point, you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: come to this Boston series after dropping disappointedly to against
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers, a team that was able to hit
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  Speaker 1: off you, a team that has not been able to
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  Speaker 1: hit the ball all that well leading up to that series.
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  Speaker 1: And if there was I don't want to say like
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  Speaker 1: adversity or whatever, but if there was a time to
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  Speaker 1: kind of like things could spiral, it would be the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox also come in into town. And then
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  Speaker 1: it was quickly apparent in that Monday game that that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen. Combined the emotions of Tuesday buying
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  Speaker 1: the thrill of Wednesday, like, it just really does seem
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  Speaker 1: like it's got to the point, let me phrase like this,
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  Speaker 1: it's got to the point where I almost feel like
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  Speaker 1: does a J. Hinchlake did you come up with new
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  Speaker 1: ways to say the same thing every time? Because it
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  Speaker 1: seems like you just have to ask them the questions
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  Speaker 1: about like the place of an else. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is available to be used in every situation and
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  Speaker 1: buy in and and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And you've been around.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, baseball a while code obviously Austin, You've
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  Speaker 1: been in plenty of clubhouses. Like there's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: fake buying and real buy in and this and this
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  Speaker 1: has to be an example of some of the realist
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  Speaker 1: buy in that I can observe from Afar just based
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  Speaker 1: on everybody being on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious what you guys think about that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to hear.
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  Speaker 6: The buy in is real. I mean, it's the proof is.
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  Speaker 5: If you need to look any further to how real
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  Speaker 5: the buy in is, just watch the games. Like, if
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  Speaker 5: you watch the games, you you can tell the Bats
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  Speaker 5: that this this lineup is they're able to string together.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I just see this patience with this team.
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  Speaker 5: They wear a picture down. You know, it's like a
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  Speaker 5: boxing match where a guy's just he's just waiting for
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  Speaker 5: his moment to strike. He's just hitting you with little blows,
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  Speaker 5: little blows here, and then boom, nine runs. You're like, WHOA, Like,
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  Speaker 5: what do how do I recover from that? You know,
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  Speaker 5: how do I recover from that? That that kidney shot
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  Speaker 5: that he just hit me with? You know, in the
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  Speaker 5: in the in the third. Now it's the you know,
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  Speaker 5: we in the sixth and I'm like, yo, I'm still
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  Speaker 5: feeling that kidney blow?
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  Speaker 6: Did he hit me with? This team wears pictures down.
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  Speaker 5: I think we talked about that before, how they're able
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  Speaker 5: to just wear a picture down, get his pitch down, up,
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  Speaker 5: and you.
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  Speaker 6: See it up and down the lineup.
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  Speaker 5: Guys are battling pitches and then they get a pitch
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  Speaker 5: to hit and they don't miss it. That is the
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  Speaker 5: sign of a team players that have bought into this mentality.
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  Speaker 5: Guys aren't being selfish. I started going up there looking
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  Speaker 5: to hit the home run. He knows that his guy
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  Speaker 5: behind him, his teammate behind him, can come up and
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  Speaker 5: do the same thing that he's capable of doing. If
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  Speaker 5: he's not giving me anything to hit, then why am
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  Speaker 5: I gonna try to be the hero right here? When
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  Speaker 5: I know my guy behind me has my back. That's
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  Speaker 5: what it looks like to me when I'm watching these games.
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  Speaker 5: That's what That's what it's exciting to watch, Like you
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  Speaker 5: want to be like a part of that. Like I'm
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  Speaker 5: bought into it. Like I watch it, I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 5: bought into that. He has constructed this this team so
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  Speaker 5: beautifully that it's like, dude, you you have to you
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  Speaker 5: have to buy in. If you're a fan Tigers Tigers fan,
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  Speaker 5: you got to buy into it because it's it's real.
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  Speaker 5: And if, like I said, if you need to look
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  Speaker 5: any further than these games, the games are showing you
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  Speaker 5: that this team and this mentality, this grittiness that this
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  Speaker 5: team UH plays with, it's a real thing. And it's
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter if it's your first year or you
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  Speaker 5: got ten years in the big league. Everybody is buying
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  Speaker 5: into that. And it's it starts with mister A himself,
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  Speaker 5: you know Carden.
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  Speaker 4: The Rangers did take two to three in Detroit, but
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers made a change at hitting coach. They hired
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  Speaker 4: Brett Boone recently, kind of out of nowhere. I wrote
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  Speaker 4: a story about this some of my national coverage for
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  Speaker 4: The Athletic. I was talking to Brett Boone and some
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  Speaker 4: of the things he was saying just kept reminding me
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  Speaker 4: of the Tigers. The Rangers wanted a former player and
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  Speaker 4: established former player, almost to bring some old school back
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  Speaker 4: to their style of play. You know, they have this
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  Speaker 4: slug oriented lineup and some big names, but they had
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  Speaker 4: gotten away. Listened to Bruce Bojie talk, they'd gotten away
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  Speaker 4: from playing to the scoreboard, from playing the game. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they were chasing slug and hoping those homers come and
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  Speaker 4: blah blah blah. Well, Brett Boone's here to like, play
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  Speaker 4: through the scoreboard, move a guy over here. You want
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  Speaker 4: to know what to do, watch the game, You want
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  Speaker 4: to know how to attack a pitcher, Go talk to
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  Speaker 4: the guy. He was just in the box. All like
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  Speaker 4: very simple, older school things, but things the Tigers have
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  Speaker 4: come to do really well. And the Tigers I think
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  Speaker 4: are pretty modern and analytical and their their approaches and
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  Speaker 4: how they prepare and they but they went through this.
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  Speaker 4: There was a point last year where aj Hinch was
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  Speaker 4: saying some of the same things, like the young hitters,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you have to learn not to worry so
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  Speaker 4: much about like oh did I get my a swing off?
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  Speaker 4: You have to worry about playing the game playing to
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  Speaker 4: the scoreboard, So that seems it was another thing that
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  Speaker 4: took some time. But somewhere last year that switch really
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  Speaker 4: flipped and the hitters do this, and I think there
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  Speaker 4: are other teams out there almost looking at this. It
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  Speaker 4: was a little bit of a model because they're saying, wait,
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  Speaker 4: if the Tigers can do what they're doing with Andy
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  Speaker 4: a Bonyez and Justin Hintery Maloy, why are we not
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  Speaker 4: doing that with you know, ex players we have who
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  Speaker 4: on paper maybe are more talented. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think there was any more Tigers moment than Andy a
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  Speaker 4: Bonyez stealing second. You know, that was called from the
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  Speaker 4: dog out, but Roldis Chapman wasn't paying any attention to
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  Speaker 4: him and he was going big leg kick taking his
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  Speaker 4: time to home plate. Indian Bani has had all of
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  Speaker 4: eight career stolen bases in the major leagues. Here you go,
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  Speaker 4: we are a guy who's throwing one oh two. It's
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  Speaker 4: the ninth inning we're sending you. He steals the best
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  Speaker 4: basic easily, ball goes into thinner field, he gets on third,
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  Speaker 4: uh sets up the Jayhens single like I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: for some reason, that's become this trait that's like almost
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  Speaker 4: unique to the Tigers, and we see little instances of
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  Speaker 4: it every single night.
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  Speaker 1: One of those Boston podcasts, they were going live during
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  Speaker 1: the game and I fast forward it to the Jay
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  Speaker 1: Hen single and one of the guys guys was like, look,
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  Speaker 1: if Malloy beats us, like, I'm gonna be xploague exploitgue exploity,
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  Speaker 1: xploy exploit up.
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  Speaker 2: Malloy beat you ass, and you're gonna have to deal
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  Speaker 2: with it, because yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Walk, go ahead, shut up in the morning work.
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  Speaker 1: But like, but like Jay Hen in some ways is
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  Speaker 1: like I don't think aj actually views like somebody as
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  Speaker 1: end of the bench, but like, in some ways, based
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  Speaker 1: on his usage and kind of what his role is
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  Speaker 1: he and what they ask him to do, he is
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  Speaker 1: sort of the quote unquote end.
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  Speaker 2: Of the bench guy.
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  Speaker 1: But I think everybody felt pretty confident that he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna go up there and have himself a nice at bat.
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  Speaker 1: And he only gets that pitch because he is patient
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  Speaker 1: at the plate and he's j Hen at the plate,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets it to a two zero count, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So like like that the end
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  Speaker 1: of the bench guy beats you know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: most intimidating closures of a generation. And and and if
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you're following this team throughout, it doesn't feel like that
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: like monumental of an occurrence. And I think that's probably
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: one of the more beautiful aspects of what this team
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: is is doing.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: In my opinion, it is beautiful because like you have
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: to wonder like, like what are like, how are you
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: you know, how are you buying into?
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Like what made you buy into that?
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Because we can talk about it all day, right, Like
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: we can say, hey, guys, you got to do this,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: this is what it takes to win.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, it's like, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at my bag. It's kind of low.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: You know, y'all paying for home runs and I need
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: to you know, I'm trying to go up top launch angle,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: spin rates and all of this things. But to get
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: a team full of different egos, people from all over
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: the place to buy into that mentality and for it
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: to go out there and translate on the field, I mean,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I think it's one thing to talk about it, but
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: then when guys start to go out there and it
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: translates on the field, it has to do something in
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: that clubhouse. There has to be something in that clubhouse
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: that's going on that are like, Yo, this is this
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: is what it's gonna take. With this type of team
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: we have, we don't have the stars. You know that
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: that that all you know some of these big prestigious
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: teams have.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: You know some of these big uh uh these teams have.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: So with the group we have, we know, we're confident
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: that if we play this type of baseball, we can
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: play with any team out there. We can play with
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: the team that has the big stars, the big pitchers,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: the big hitters. If we stick to this model right here,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: who can Why can't we play with some of those teams? Okay,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: so what you you hit the three run home run,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: But we have a way that we manufacture those runs differently.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: You know, we can get that, we can get nine
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: runs back next inning. But just playing this style of
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: baseball where we don't have to worry about our main
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: guy coming up here and hitting the three run home
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: run or getting guys on base for him to hit. No,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: this guy can do it. Hey, justin go ahead and
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: hop up here. Because we believe in you. The team
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: believes in you. I mean I was watching them on
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: I'm like, man, hey, yo, you know who's pinching right now?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I didn't see anything that showed me that he wasn't
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: ready for that moment. Like the first pitch he took,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yo, that's like, no flint, I'm flinching. I'm
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: doing something. He took it, and then he's ready for us,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: even Harvey or Bias. I love the way he stepped
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: up there and was ready for the first pitch he
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: missed it, Hey just barely missed it. But it's just
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: that readiness, like the guys are just ready. Like it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: not about I'm trying to be the hero, like this
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: is this is what it takes, Like I need to
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: be ready if my number is called, I'm ready. And
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: that's what happened. I mean, the guy you were saying
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: if he beats us, but you don't know that this
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: like he's ready for this. He talked about it in
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: his postgame interview, Like it's the preparation, Like these guys
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: are prepared for these moments. And I truly believe it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's just something guys are just saying
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: just to say. I think that AJ has these boys
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: believing that Hey, This is the style of baseball we play.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: This is the team we are.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: We don't have to look in the and you know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: on ESPN and see what all the highlights and all that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Forget all of that stuff. This is the type of
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: baseball that wins games. Like you said, play the way
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: the scoreboard dictates that, Hey, I need to move this
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: runner right here, Guys go up there and do that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: You see that with the.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: At bats guys are having Like, guys are moving runners over,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: guys are taking short swings, and then hey, when they
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: get a pitch that they can drive, they drive it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: That's what you're supposed to do. But it can't be
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: every pitch of every app back. The game is going
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: to dictate what what the type of swing I'm gonna
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: go up here and take. And that's what you're seeing, man,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: And it's just impressive to watch. Like I'm myself, I'm
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: gonna be honest, there are times where I'm like, all right,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: come on, man.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: Like let me see this might not work right now,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: and then they prove me wrong. I'm like, well, hey,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: I'm rocking.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Like I just need to believe in myself, Like I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: seeing what I'm seeing and I'm calling it, but I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: following it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: It's right.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: These boys can play, and I'm telling you it is
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: super fun to watch. These are not the It's not fluky,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: it does it doesn't look fluky to me, Guys, like,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: come on, now, this is this This looks a lot.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Different than I think a lot of people expect.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So well, one of the different aspects of the team
• 21:17
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• 21:19
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  Speaker 2: All right, coming back here.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I think now's a good time to give some flowers
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit to labor Torres.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And it's not like we've ignored him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I think we've all kind of recognized like what he's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: brought to the team.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: But I think it's it's still a it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: It looks better I think then I anticipated. And I'm
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that I followed every single at
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: bat and play of his career, but I tend to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: follow the Yankees second most closely because that's where a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: lot of my extended family is from. So if I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: want to talk to him about baseball, got talking about
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. So I I tend to follow the Yankees
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and I UH was well aware of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: his reputation amongst the Yankee fans, and he he's come
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in here and done nothing but been like the ultimate
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: professional and and given the Tigers some of the best
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: quality at bats and honestly, balt balt bat to ball.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I should say, Uh skills at the top of the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: order as consistently as Uh as anybody on this team.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Right now, He's got a one thirty oh ps plus
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he's hit in two eighty nine. He's got He's almost
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a one more player right now, and that's with slightly
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: negative defense. But the defense too, I think he made
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: a fine.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Play last night. Defense too has surprised me a little bit.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: He's obviously not a perfect player.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: You get a guy on a one year deal and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a proven deal for for reasons, and that's okay. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I I I I think that this the whole outlook
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of this team looks a lot different without Labor Torres,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and there's an element of the hobby or bias part
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: that like them together I think has been a huge
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: positive for both as well. So so Labor doing this thing,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I just think we got to give him as Flowers
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: man because I I feel I feel very good about
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: having him at the top of the order and honestly
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: pretty good about having him at second base.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Got who you you want it, you can have it,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: because I'm hey, I'm ready. It is something about it, man,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: like it's this He's just it's this comfort like watching
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: him play. Like so there was a play I get
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: I think it was against the Rangers, and y'all can
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: prit me if I'm wrong. This is you know, this
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: this heads up veteran type play where I think it
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: was two out. It was a grandfa hit the swingy
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: that he threw it to labor at at second and
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: if you're watching it fast, I mean you there's no way.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that guy was safe for our I
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: didn't know what but for him to not stop and
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: you know, like maybe a younger guy probably would have.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: You know, well, he said he was out, but just
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: the heads up play as a veteran to know like
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: that was really quick right there knowing this is what
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I think that it was going on all in his head.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: By the way I think that he processed all of
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: this what I'm about to say. I think that he
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: was like I don't know. That was pretty close. So oh, oh,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: you're off the base over there, so I'm gonna throw
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: it to you just in case this dude is safe.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: When they do the replay, you're out because I caught
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: you slipping over there. Man, that was that was unreal.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Like I know that probably doesn't show up as like,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: oh my gosh, that was great, but man, that was
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: unreal to still have the sense of being the Like, No,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: I got to keep this play going because if they
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: do a replay right here, this guy might be safe
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: because that was bang bang.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: And if they show the replay and he's.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Safe and I'm arguing with him, like, oh he was
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: out and he runs around in scores that that it
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: looks completely different. But him to stay in that play
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: and then for them to get that run down and
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: then get four outs. Man, that that's incredible. And not
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: only that, it's it is so like I watched him hit.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And one thing is that it amazes me how I've
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: seen different pictures out of the stretch of the wind up,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: you know, variable different speeds to to the plate, and
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: the way he's still able to get his leg up
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: on time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: It's unreal. I wish I could do that, like I always.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know how he's mastered that to a guy
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: still being out of out of the stretch, quick to
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: the plate. And I've seen him switch it up though
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: and go like to more of a foot down approach,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: and I think he got a base hit. I think
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: it may have been in Colorado. But the how he's
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: able to do that is unreal. He reminds me, and
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I know a lot of Tigers fans will will understand
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: who I'm talking who I'm talking about Omar Fonte. It's
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: something about this short swing, this direct path to the ball,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: like he's so inside the ball, like you can't really
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: fool him. Like he's hit he can hit all speed,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: he hit fastballs up and en. He can you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: hit a base hit to right right field, like it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: unreal to watch like it is.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: It's an art, like it's a it's almost like a
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: lost art of guys being able to stay inside the
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: ball and stay short like that. And then you hang
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: him a pitch and you see what he's able to do.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: He's able to pull it and pull it with power.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Against Boston, he lined out a few times. It was
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: like man dude, that ball was hit well, you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: like and his average would look different if a couple
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: of those balls are hit in different places. So, I mean,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: you talk about a veteran in the way he's able
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: to impact this lineup. I think his style of play,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: his the way he plays this game. It just messhes
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: so much more, so much better with this Tiger's lineup
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: as a pose to a Yankees lineup where you know,
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: you kind of get overshadowed by doing things like that
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: because of who, because of Judge. You know, those things
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: don't they don't make as much sense, and nobody appreciates
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: that style of play as much. But over here where
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: this is the style of play that that that that
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: this is how we played the game of baseball. It
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: fits so perfectly, man, and it's just it is incredible
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: to see how he's he's showing the world like, hey,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I've been this type of player. Y'all just ain't been
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: paying attention.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there is something where Glaber has rubbed off on
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the Tigers, and I think the Tigers have rubbed off
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: on Glaber Torres as well. Like I've been watching this
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: and I've just been in like this is the both
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: on the field and behind the scenes. This is the
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: leader they have needed and lacked for a few years.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: But Glabor wasn't necessarily perceived as that in New York.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: And it's probably because there was Aaron, Judge and Stanton like,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: there were all these other guys in the clubhouse. You know,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: he wasn't necessarily asked to be that guy. I imagine
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: it was probably harder behind the scenes for him to
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: be that vocal leader. Well, he comes here and he's
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: one of the most experienced guys on the team. He
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: plays on the team that has a very different play style.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I think we talked about this before, but the whole
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: extra base is taken thing going first to third. The
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Yankees ranked dead last in that last year. Labor Torres
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: was regarded as a bad base runner. That was just
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: his reputation. That's what the numbers show. Well, he gets
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: over to Detroit and he's taken the extra base fifty
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: three point eight percent of the time. It's by far
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: the highest rate of his career. All Right, so he's
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: bought into what the Tigers are doing. He is doing well.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: The defense kind of is what it is. He's not
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: a great defensive second basement but like he said, like
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: he made some plays when it's mattered. That brought him
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: here for the at bat, the quality of the yet bat,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: and that was the one thing I knew was going
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to show up, And man, has it ever shown up?
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Like the other things I'm I'm trying to when he
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: went out and checked him schoolball on the mound, I
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: think against Texas, you know, and schools like feel my heartbeat.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: The next day we were talking to Glaver and Schoobl
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: walks by and he's like, best mountain visit ever. So
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: all right, you got the respect to Schoobl. You're doing
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: something right.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it kind of reminds me. Now it's
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: not in.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Apples to apples things, so I don't want anyone to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: think I think of it that way, but it does
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: remind me the way Austin the way you talk about
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Tory Hunter when he came to Detroit. I imagine the impact
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that Glaber's having is similar to a lot of these
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: young guys on the team, because you'll you'll bring up
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Tory as much as as anybody as something.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: So he had he must have had like quite an
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: impact on you.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: So I mean, if you want to you know, kind
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of expand on that what Tory meant to those Tiger
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: teams who obviously were better than what we expected coming
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: into this season. But at the same time, he did
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: make an on and off the field impact.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean with Tory, like I mean, we've all
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: watched Tory all the highlights, you know, the Spider Man highlights,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: the highlights of him, and you know Robin Bonds in
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: the All Star Game and Bonds picking him up like
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: a little little rag doll. But you know, Toy man,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: he just brought this energy on a day to day
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: basis that you can't you can't really replicate that. You
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: can try to, I try to do some of those
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: things in the other clubs, but you just have that.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: You know, you have that. That's something that's just embedded
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: in you. And toy you know, obviously playing with him,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: he was more towards the end of his career, but
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: again he was a guy that like, no, I still
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: can play this game.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I can still play this game at a high level.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: So Tory, I'm thinking, you know, had a little bit
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: to prove as well, because people are probably thinking, oh,
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: he's probably just coming over here, just signing a deal
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: trying to get a little extra cashers. Maybe he was
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: trying to do that, but he also he gonna say
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: something me about that. But that's all right, that's what boy.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: But no, But also like he just played the game
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: that way, you know, and that fit the mold of
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: that team, Like we needed that. We needed that veteran
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: leadership to come in and not be like, oh, well,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: you know I'm Tory Hunter and you know I've done
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: all these I got all these personal things that I've
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: achieved in my career. No, it was like, no, I'm
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: one of the boys, Like I'm going to hit behind
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: the runner if I have to do that. When you
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: see a veteran do things like that, it's like I'm
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: buying into that because he believes that that's what it
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: takes to win a game. And he's been around longer
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: than me. He's seen a lot more baseball than I have.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: So why would I not listen to a potential Hall
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: of Famer when he's he's been there, he's been there,
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  Speaker 5: done that.
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  Speaker 6: He understands how to play this game and how to
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  Speaker 6: win baseball games. Labor is the same way you can
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: just tell it's it's it's not it's not about him.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, obviously he wants to prove to people like y'all
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: got it wrong. I am I am a I am
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: a top player in this game. But it's something like
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: he's like, I want to show this team though, that
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: I'm capable of being that leader that y'all needed. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: you can just you can, like I said, you can
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: tell that you said it so perfectly, Cody, that he's
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: rubbed off on this team, and this team is rubbed
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: off on him because of everybody looks the same. Everybody
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: looks the same. Like when they're hitting. It's like this
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: guy stayed inside of a fastball that was middle and
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: he didn't try to hit it out. You know, he
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: hits the line drive. You're just seeing all these hard
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: contact line drives everywhere, and nobody's like it's about me.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: It's like, no, I did that so the next person
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: could come up and drive me over or drive me
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: in or do what I do what I have to do,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: do my job, you know, to to help the team win.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: And that's how Toy was. Toy was, uh, he was
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: just you know, he didn't.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Have this this personal thing that that he had to
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: necessarily prove it was like, I'm here.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: To help this team win ball games, and that rubbed
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: off for me.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I was at his locker made while I was there,
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: and I just I just soaked up so much information
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: about the game on the field, off the field, things
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: that that that that just made me a.
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: Better human being.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: And you know, I believe that that's exactly how he is.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: And I think that, you know, him being in this
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: position was just what he needed at this time in
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: his in his career.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Honestly proven to be maybe perhaps one of the better
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: free agent signings that that Scott.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Harris has had.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Flairty one is hard the top, because yeah,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: he was a borderline All star. You get, you get Sweeney,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you get Loronzo in the deal, and then you sign
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: him back, So like that's gonna be hard the top.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But Labor's Labor's looking like a really good value as well.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: All Right, let's let's wrap up here speaking of energy
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a little, not that the team needed an energy boost,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: but a Kiel bad is back.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: The the great, the great energy of a Kiel Bazoo.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: A guy that will forever be like a like a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: niche fan favorite, like if you if you if it's
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: like one of you, if you know, you know type
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: guys or whatever. How much fun he was on some
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: teams that you know, a lot of times weren't that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: much fun to watch. But he gets to call up
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Cody Jace Young goes down and we had talked about like,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you know, you got a heavy right handed opposition coming up,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and you know it's just the Jase opportunity. Turns out
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it was not the Jase opportunity, but it is the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Akiel ba Doo opportunity who had Let's see if I
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: have it right, I think he had six home runs
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in Toledo this year as as he kind of got
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: settled in from that from that broken bone in his hand.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Obviously didn't have a spring training really, but it's nice
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: to see a Keel and what does he do.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: He makes an exciting player right off the bat, will
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: technically right out the glove with a diving, diving catch
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in right field there. So what can you tell us
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: about the Tigers reasoning for bringing up a Keel?
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they brought him up here because he
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: was hot. He had six ommers in Toledo, but five
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: of those had come and I think like his last
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: nine games, he was starting to swing it pretty well
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: down there. I mean, you can look in the numbers.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: The strikeout rate was still close to thirty percent in Toledo,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: so that's some reason for concern. I did think the
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: timing was interesting, Like we all knew Jase was on
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: thin ice. Jace finally had a game where he got
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: a knock, did a couple of little things that helped
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: him win the Hobby Bayas game. And it's a tough
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: business because he's he gone the next day. And I don't,
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: you know, even asking aj Hinch, I st don't really
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: know why it was the series finale in Boston as
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: opposed to the day before or the day after. The
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Tigers must have seen something in the matchups where they
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: wanted him up there for that last game in Boston.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: They definitely wanted another left handed bat, you know, maybe
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: helping out in the outfield. Uh, Kerry Carpenter and Ryley
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Green have played a lot, so bringing up another outfielder
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: can help those guys get off their feet a little bit. Yeah,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: like I kill the fan favorite, he kills the guy.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: It's hard for me not to just root for But
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I wasn't sure we were gonna see
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Akilba doing a Detroit Tigers jersey again. So in a way,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: it's it's, you know, it's a testament for him for
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: going down there doing enough to earn this opportunity and
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: get another shot.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm I.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Love I love this style of play, and you know,
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: we talk about the numbers and things, but it's just
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: something about the energy that that this guy can bring
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: to a team. And what I'm hoping to see is
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: that this style of play that the Tigers are currently
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: playing kind of rubs off on him a little bit
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: and he can just be comfortable and just play baseball
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: and not worry about my swing in this just do
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: the do the things to contribute to the team.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Because that's what this that's what this is looking like.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: It's looking like, you know, each and every guy that
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: gets an opportunity is doing is buying in to this
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: style of the style of baseball that we're that we're
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: talking about, and it really would be nice to see
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: him buy into that, not that he isn't, but just
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: to start playing that type of baseball because I think
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: that he can bring a lot of energy and I
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: believe the Tigers believe that too. You know, his defense
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: he has, he has great he has good defense, and
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: I think that that, you know, him giving a few
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: of those guys a blow on their legs is going
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: to be crucial, especially at this I know it's early,
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: but they have been playing a lot and it'd be
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: nice to give a couple guys a blow. But it'd
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: be really nice to see him get hot and show
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: the Tiger is that, hey, I'm capable.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Of playing at this level.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: You know, It's just it takes a little bit longer
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: for guys to just get situated and figure out who
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: they are.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Who am I as a player?
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: You know, I know what they say I can do
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: and all these things I need to be doing. I
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: need to hit for power, I need to hit for average,
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: I need to do all of these things. Just play baseball, man,
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: you're you are a hell of a baseball player. You
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: go out there and you play. The style of this
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: style of baseball is almost it's contagious. You know, it's
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: almost like I don't have to do I just got
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: to be gritty. I would keep saying gritty. I like
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: that gritty is just because it's just like you just
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: play hard. You just play the game right, you know,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: and you don't have to worry it. I mean, I
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: know this is a numbers oriented game, but it just
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: seems like if he just buys into the way this
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: team is playing right now, I think we can see him,
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: you know, contribute to to what this team is doing
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: I just like saying his name too. It's pretty cootty
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: to say that name.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Man, that's a that's a that's a very interesting name
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: that it just it rolls off right.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: It was fun to hear the yappadabad and again after
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: they play that the something uh yeah, in a long time.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: It was good.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: It's like you're going to have another big roster decision.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Sounds like Matt Vererling will be back, if not in
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Saint Louis, then maybe next week in Cleveland. So would
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: a kill go back down or would justin Henry molloy
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: go down? We'll see something that might depend on the handedness,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: So maybe has shots get a little bit of a
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: longer runway. That's one decision. Jake Rodgers on a rehab assignment,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: should be on his way back as well. And finally
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: getting some better news with Parker Meadows he's not quite
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: ready for a rehab assignment, but maybe not too far off.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: So the reinforcements are coming.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Good problems to have though, right man. It isn't like, man,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: what are we gonna do?
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: It's like, dude, like we just got so many options
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: right now, like good, good problems to ask for Tigers
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, reinforcements on the way.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: That's uh, it's not great news for the rest of baseball.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But got rivalry weekend this weekend with the Toronto Blue
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Jays and uh, and so we will talk after that series.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It will be very interesting to see if they continue rolling.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Riley Green low key on a five game hit streak,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: so we'll see if if that continues as well. All Right,
• 41:34
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