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Daniella Bruce Joins Tiger Territory · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tigers Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network, a Detroit Tigers podcast. I'm Keeren
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  Speaker 1: Steckley with me as always as Cody staven Hagen and
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  Speaker 1: joining us for the first time. Your broadcast reporter for
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers and Red Wings, Dan Yellow, Bruce, Dan Yellow,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to start off by saying that if you
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  Speaker 3: guys hear any scratching at a door, I have to
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  Speaker 3: lock my dog out of the room when I do
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  Speaker 3: these because she will jump up on me and want
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  Speaker 3: to be a part of it. So I hope you
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  Speaker 3: don't think I'm abusing her or anything, but it is.
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  Speaker 3: It is her just scratching at the door. If you
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  Speaker 3: hear a weird background noise.
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  Speaker 4: We all understand right in Hard Docs have occasionally made
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  Speaker 4: appearances on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Like I said, it's great to have you on, Danielle,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, a very busy time for you. It's
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  Speaker 1: a busy time for Cody, it's busy time for me,
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  Speaker 1: but you especially, so I just got a you know,
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  Speaker 1: from the jump here just kind of I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: joke they say, like, how is your off season? No,
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  Speaker 1: you know for the Tigers, knowing that there is no
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  Speaker 1: off season for you, So what have you been up
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  Speaker 1: to since the last time we saw you do some
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  Speaker 1: Tigers games?
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  Speaker 3: Well, definitely covering some run wings hockey, and they've seemed
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  Speaker 3: to turn things around since about Christmas, so they're fighting
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  Speaker 3: for a playoff spot right now, which has been fun.
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  Speaker 2: I did get a little bit of a break.
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  Speaker 3: The Four Nations Tournament was a two week break this year,
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  Speaker 3: and then I also got married, so I took some
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  Speaker 3: time off for that. In the month of February was
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  Speaker 3: kind of my time off, and then it was right
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  Speaker 3: to spring training and kind of bouncing back between bolts.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm home right now in Detroit for Wings and
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  Speaker 3: then I'll go back to Lakeland for some Tigers next
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  Speaker 3: week and then I kind of I go basically Tigers
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  Speaker 3: from there. So it's going to be a very, very
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  Speaker 3: busy year this year, but I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for anyone who missed it, Daniella was recently named
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  Speaker 4: the sideline reporter for the Tigers broadcast this year, So congratulations,
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  Speaker 4: well deserved. You've come a long way from the word
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  Speaker 4: on Woodwork Days right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, the word on Woodward Rush Beat. Cody
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  Speaker 3: was one of our returning guests that came on to
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  Speaker 3: talk Tigers that show.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, though it did so much, and those that don't
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  Speaker 2: know what.
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  Speaker 3: It was, it was during COVID, during the pandemic, when
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  Speaker 3: everything was shut down and nothing was really happening, and
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  Speaker 3: we were trying to find a wait it and keep
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  Speaker 3: some sort of content coming from the Red Wings and Tigers,
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  Speaker 3: and it became this like two hour live streaming show
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  Speaker 3: where we had guests on talking about both Red Wings
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  Speaker 3: and Tigers. And it was my first taste of doing both.
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  Speaker 3: So even though it feels crazy that we did all
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  Speaker 3: of that now, I think it's what actually got me
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  Speaker 3: into doing both sports and what made me interested in
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  Speaker 3: wanting to pursue baseball a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: It served its purpose, It got us through it. It
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  Speaker 3: was fun while it lasted. But man, yeah, I have
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  Speaker 3: come a long way since then, and thank goodness, we're
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  Speaker 3: back to like regular broadcasts.
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  Speaker 4: For sure. And I asked because I was kind of
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  Speaker 4: curious just to better understand your career path. I know
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  Speaker 4: you went to Michigan State, but is this kind of
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  Speaker 4: what you always envisioned yourself doing or how did things
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  Speaker 4: unfold for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've always wanted to be a reporter, a sports
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  Speaker 3: reporter of some sort. I didn't have an exact path
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  Speaker 3: that I wanted to pursue when I went into college
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  Speaker 3: at Michigan State, But as I started to get into it,
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  Speaker 3: I knew I liked TV. I like the sideline role.
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  Speaker 3: I like hosting a little bit too. If that is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a part of the new position with
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers, so I'll get to do that a little
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  Speaker 3: So I knew that was kind of the path.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to take.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that hockey would be the first sport
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  Speaker 3: that I would break into. I was really open to anything.
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  Speaker 3: I had covered a lot of football and basketball at
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State and some hockey. They I had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of basketball and football, so those were the sports I
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  Speaker 3: thought I might break into. But when I graduated it
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  Speaker 3: ended up being just a year after that that little
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  Speaker 3: Caesars Arena opened, So there were a lot of new
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  Speaker 3: positions that the Red Wings were hiring for at that time,
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  Speaker 3: and one of them was just their arena host reporter position,
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  Speaker 3: which I actually didn't get, and they were like, we
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  Speaker 3: like you, we want to keep you on.
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  Speaker 2: We don't really know in what capacity, but we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do something.
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  Speaker 3: I like, all right, well, I'm fresh out of college,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm going to say yes to that, right especially
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  Speaker 3: with the hometown team. And I became a game night
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  Speaker 3: staff member, hosting a pregame and intermission show that ran
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  Speaker 3: strictly inside Little Caesars Arena for Red Wings games, and
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  Speaker 3: from there my position started to blossom. A year later,
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  Speaker 3: I was hired full time as like a reporter producer
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  Speaker 3: type role, and then I started doing radio with Ken
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  Speaker 3: Cal and I actually got to fill in as the
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  Speaker 3: color analyst back in twenty twenty two when our color
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  Speaker 3: analyst Paul Woods was outsick, I filled in for him,
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  Speaker 3: which was the start of my radio career. So I
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  Speaker 3: did that, did some stuff for Red Wings, and then
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to add the position on the Tigers side,
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  Speaker 3: which basically is a sideline reporter role that I've done
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  Speaker 3: for the past two years with Dan Dickerson on the
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  Speaker 3: radio and then Ken Cal on the Red Wings side.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really just grown from what started as a
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  Speaker 3: game night staff position, which is a really cool story.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm from here I grew up in New Baltimore,
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  Speaker 3: So being from Detroit and getting to be the homegrown
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  Speaker 3: kid that gets to live out her dream here is
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  Speaker 3: really a cool story. And I feel like sometimes I
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  Speaker 3: do take that for granted because it doesn't happen all
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  Speaker 3: that often.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, one of my life philosophies is
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  Speaker 1: you got to be open to possibilities. And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like what you just described there is someone who was
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  Speaker 1: open to possibilities. You didn't know you're gonna do this,
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  Speaker 1: you end up doing that, And I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: great mindset to have. I am curious, you know, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of mindsets, so you mentioned, you know, TV, in game stuff, radio,
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  Speaker 1: you know that that all kind of has its own
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  Speaker 1: flavor to kind of you know, to the medium, Right,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm curious, like, what what do you like most
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  Speaker 1: or which one do you prefer, or what's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the you know, the the give and
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  Speaker 1: take with having to do TV and radio and even
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  Speaker 1: just like the in game stuff, Like what kind of
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  Speaker 1: goes into all of that for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you asked me which one I
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  Speaker 3: liked more, I think I've always wanted to do TV
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  Speaker 3: for obvious reasons right, That is kind of the gold
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  Speaker 3: standard in most cases.
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  Speaker 2: But radio is very underappreciated sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: And I've learned that being involved in it, and these
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  Speaker 3: radio play by play announcers are incredible. We're blessed with
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  Speaker 3: two of the best, and Dan Dickerson and Ken Kelly
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  Speaker 3: have Dan Miller two who's incredible. But just the way
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  Speaker 3: that they're able to describe a game. You have to
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  Speaker 3: remember they viewers can't see anything. If they're listening to
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  Speaker 3: the game, they're likely not watching it. Some people do
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  Speaker 3: watch it with the radio calls on it. But the
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  Speaker 3: way that they're able to describe it and the way
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  Speaker 3: that they're they're so relaxed about it.
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  Speaker 2: Radio is a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit more free flowing than TV is, and that could
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  Speaker 3: be because of certain sponsorship elements. That could be just
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  Speaker 3: because of things that go into a TV broadcast that
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  Speaker 3: you worry about in a radio broadcast. But it's a
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  Speaker 3: little more relaxed. It's very free flowing, and I learned
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  Speaker 3: a lot being involved in radio and just listening to
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  Speaker 3: the two of them and being around the teams each
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  Speaker 3: and every day, and I feel like it was a
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  Speaker 3: great experience for me and it's going to make me
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  Speaker 3: so much better on TV having done radio for two years,
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  Speaker 3: so a couple.
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  Speaker 4: Of years ago you start breaking into the Tiger space
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  Speaker 4: the baseball space. Was that an adjustment at all, because
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  Speaker 4: sometimes baseball is not the easiest thing to just dive
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  Speaker 4: head first right in.
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  Speaker 2: So I was nervous.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie, And I think it's just because
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  Speaker 3: you're going into a new clubhouse, locker room with new
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  Speaker 3: players that you don't have relationships with yet.
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  Speaker 2: You're meeting a.
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  Speaker 3: Whole new group of reporters, the people that cover this
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  Speaker 3: team every day. And I think my experience with the
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  Speaker 3: Wings I built some confidence and just the fact that hey,
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  Speaker 3: I can do this, I belong here. Just go in,
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  Speaker 3: be yourself and have fun with it and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to work out. And that's exactly what I did. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like the beat writers like me write Cody. You
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  Speaker 3: can say that of Christma.
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  Speaker 2: Coas is my favorite. I have to give him a
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  Speaker 2: shout out.
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  Speaker 3: He's not an easy got to warm up to, and
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  Speaker 3: I think I warmed up to him the quickest of
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  Speaker 3: anybody ever.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: No love Christmas, cos he love all the people that
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  Speaker 3: work around the organization. Part of it was obviously working
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  Speaker 3: for the Red Wings. I knew a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: on the public relations side the media relation side that
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  Speaker 3: kind of had done both, so it felt comfortable going
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  Speaker 3: over there. We also have a great group on the
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  Speaker 3: Tigers side. AJ Hinch is super welcoming and great and
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  Speaker 3: answers any question that you have. So he's awesome. But
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  Speaker 3: baseball can be an intimidating sport. But I think having
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  Speaker 3: had some experience in a professional sports setting made me
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  Speaker 3: feel a little bit more comfortable walking in there. But yeah, learning,
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  Speaker 3: learning baseball is something that's kind of crazy to me too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still learning baseball. If I told you I knew everything,
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  Speaker 3: i'd be lying to you. There is so much to know,
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  Speaker 3: so many things that go into it. And I love
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  Speaker 3: learning something new every day. And I think that's part
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  Speaker 3: of the fun of baseball, is that I truly do
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  Speaker 3: learn something different every day.
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  Speaker 4: We're all still learning baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Never never stopped learning. So you mentioned Dan Diggerson. I've
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  Speaker 1: listened to him for years, and then when when Cody
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  Speaker 1: started covering the Tigers, I was like, is Dan a
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  Speaker 1: good guy?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of like hoping for a good answer there,
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  Speaker 1: and ringing endorsement from Cody, just like seemingly everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a ringing endorsement regarding Dan. So we have like the
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  Speaker 1: professional colleague sense, the fans sense. So now someone who
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  Speaker 1: has actually worked with Dan, you know what is what
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  Speaker 1: makes Dan so special both seemingly as a person from
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  Speaker 1: those who meet him and just anyone who listens to
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  Speaker 1: him knows how great he is as job. But what
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  Speaker 1: makes Dan great, Well.
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  Speaker 3: He's the nicest person ever. And I'm not just saying that,
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  Speaker 3: like he truly is just a great human being. And
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  Speaker 3: he if you don't know this, his wife, La Dickerson
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  Speaker 3: Laurian is a professor at Michigan State and I actually
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  Speaker 3: had her when I was there. A lot of students
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  Speaker 3: come in and will shadow all shadow both of us.
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  Speaker 2: She'll set it up.
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  Speaker 3: They've been our production assistants, broadcast assistance.
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  Speaker 2: They've filled that role nicely.
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  Speaker 3: So Dan's always looking to help out anybody that he
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  Speaker 3: can that wants to break into this industry because he
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  Speaker 3: knows how hard it is. Fun quick story about Dan.
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  Speaker 3: I was in LA's class back when I was I
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  Speaker 3: think I was a sophomore at Michigan State and I
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  Speaker 3: was having one of those moments in time where I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: am I doing the right thing? Everybody's telling me there's
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  Speaker 3: no money in this field, Like, am I doing the
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  Speaker 3: right thing?
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  Speaker 2: Should I be pursuing this career? And I was in
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  Speaker 2: her class.
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  Speaker 3: Dan Dickerson was a guest speaker after I went up
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  Speaker 3: and introduced myself and he said, you have a phenomenal
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  Speaker 3: voice for broadcasting.
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  Speaker 2: You better. You got to stick with this. You have
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  Speaker 2: to keep with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, Okay, Dan Dickerson thinks I can
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  Speaker 3: do it, I'm gonna do it. And turns out probably
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  Speaker 3: ten years like no, not a full time Probably six
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  Speaker 3: seven years later, I was working with Dan in the
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  Speaker 3: radio booth.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a very cool full circle moment to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do that with him.
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  Speaker 3: But he's always looking to help other people. Phenomenal broadcaster,
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  Speaker 3: understands the game really really well. He will tell me
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  Speaker 3: anything I need to know, and his preparation that's what
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  Speaker 3: makes him so good, Like the way that he the
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  Speaker 3: work he puts in. He tells me all the time
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  Speaker 3: because I don't really have an off season either. I've
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  Speaker 3: spent some time with my family of course, but he
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  Speaker 3: gets right to it. He's prepping for the next season,
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  Speaker 3: and it's pretty incredible the work that he puts in
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  Speaker 3: behind the scenes to be as good.
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  Speaker 2: As he is.
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  Speaker 4: Dan, we need to have Dan loan sometime. But I
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  Speaker 4: called Dan once this offseason. I was like, Hey, how's
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  Speaker 4: it going. What are you doing. He goes, Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just transcribing every interview I had with AJ from the
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  Speaker 4: entire all last season. And I was like, yeah, why,
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  Speaker 4: that is insane. Why would you do that? And He's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: you never know when you'll find a little nugget that
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  Speaker 4: I can add to my notes and then use on
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  Speaker 4: a broadcast. And I was like, oh, my gosh, that
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  Speaker 4: is next level preparation.
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  Speaker 3: Even the interviews I do with players, he'll have me
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  Speaker 3: send to him sometimes so he can transcribe them. And
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  Speaker 3: that I got and I'm like, sure, you can have it,
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  Speaker 3: no problem.
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  Speaker 4: And for those who don't work in media, transcribing interviews
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  Speaker 4: is like the most tedious, lest, least fun thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: worst part of the job in a way. And this
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  Speaker 4: guy is just in the middle of December, you know,
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  Speaker 4: transcribing something you did with AJ in May. So that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he always he always makes you feel smarter as
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  Speaker 1: you talk about, you know, always learning the game. Listening
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  Speaker 1: to Dan definitely makes you a makes you a smarter
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  Speaker 1: baseball person. Uh, well, we're not going to go back
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  Speaker 1: and listen to interviews from the past, but we are
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  Speaker 1: going to look forward a little bit. Uh a lot
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  Speaker 1: of excitement. Obviously, Danielle, regarding the twenty twenty five Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: you break the streak last season, you will two streaks,
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  Speaker 1: just making the postseason then winning a postseason game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of bounces ago their way. Maybe the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season could have gone a little bit longer,
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  Speaker 1: but that's baseball. As they say, what are your expectations
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty five version of the Detroit Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: You know, a team that is still very young, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not a whole lot of additions to the team, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't necessarily have to talk about that part, but
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  Speaker 1: the fact remains and didn't really add a whole lot,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still a core group that got within a
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  Speaker 1: handful of outs from going to the ALCS.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think they are all aj all the players stepping
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  Speaker 3: into the season and with the mindset that they want
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  Speaker 3: to win the division and that they can win the division.
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  Speaker 3: That they're good enough, they have the talent, and I
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  Speaker 3: feel like that's a realistic goal for them to set.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see how they start off, especially
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  Speaker 3: with the news surrounding Matt Verling and Parker Meadows being
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  Speaker 3: on sheriff. He'll start the season on time, But I
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  Speaker 3: guess the bright side of that is this is happening early,
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  Speaker 3: so hopefully they're back quick and it doesn't happen mid season.
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  Speaker 3: But it'll be interesting to see how that pulls through
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  Speaker 3: because there wasn't a move made. Matt Virling was going
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  Speaker 3: to factor in heavily at that third base spot likely
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  Speaker 3: or is going to when he's healthy. So how does
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  Speaker 3: that play out to start the season, and where do
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  Speaker 3: some of the younger guys fit into this, and how
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  Speaker 3: does the rotation shape up with Alex Cobb being out right,
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  Speaker 3: I think there are some still question marks about that.
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  Speaker 3: We're seeing Kentamieta pitch really well, which is a good
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  Speaker 3: sign for the spring, seeing Jackson Job pitch really well,
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  Speaker 3: which is a good sign. Casey Miss pitch pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that they've set this realistic expectation. They've
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  Speaker 3: got a young core, a lot of talent on this team,
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  Speaker 3: but it's going to take some guys taking steps forward
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully avoiding some of these injuries that we talk
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  Speaker 3: about throughout the season for this team to kind of
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  Speaker 3: make that deep playoff run that they want to make
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 4: Daniella, you were down in Lakeland for several days and
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  Speaker 4: people always ask me, you know, what's the vibe this spring?
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  Speaker 4: And that's always kind of a hard question for me
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  Speaker 4: to answer, And sometimes I wonder if I'm just filtering
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  Speaker 4: things through my own lens. I always say, like, these
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  Speaker 4: guys are almost more business like than you would expect.
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  Speaker 4: I think maybe that's tied to the confidence the team
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  Speaker 4: now has. But what's your answer that question? What was
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  Speaker 4: the vibe?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 4: What stood out to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I think this team is always They're a great group
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: to be around, honestly, the fact that a lot of
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: them came up together and that they are so young
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: and still frankly and experienced, like they have some now
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: that they, like you said, build some confidence on.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: But they they're fun.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: They still have fun, I think, and I know that
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: sometimes when you win a lot, and sometimes when you're
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: chasing the playoffs all the time, like that can go away,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: But these guys still have that vibe and I felt
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: that when I walked into the room for spring training too.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: But there's also a lot of competition this year, and
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: guys know that there's guys that want to make this roster.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: And that's the same said for every spring. But I
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: think this is a really good group where the vibes
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: are always good, Like it's it's not overly competitive where
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: it's uncomfortable, it's it's still a fun room to be in,
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: and they look forward to starting the season. So I
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: think they're all happy to be back to which is crazy.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like, don't you guys want your off season to
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: be a little bit longer. They're like no, after a
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: week or so, we were ready to be back and
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: like crazy, crazy.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good vibes.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: So when I watch any of my favorite teams, I
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: always like, you know, I'm always trying to sell because
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I live in Texas. I live in Dallas, so like
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I got to get people around me interested in my
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: teams if we're gonna be watching. So I'm like, you
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: know this guy went through this, or you know this
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: thing's going on with his family, and you know, like
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the human element essentially to these guys. So I'm curious,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Danielle from your perspective because you're around them so often,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: like who what players or coaches whatever, you know, have
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: some of the best stories about their life, you know
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: what I mean? Like who who do you find just
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: like really compelling and and just like you know, you
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: like have like high human interests like this for this season.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: They really are good people. I know.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I work for the team, and everybody's probably like she
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: has to say that, but they all are pretty good people, right,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: And I feel like I can take the very obvious
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: answer with Trek Skoubel and the fact that where he
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: came from and how he got his or how his
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: career unfolded right from the University of Seattle not having
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: any scholarships, just all the things that he went through
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: to become a cy young pitcher. Like, he has great
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: stories there. His family is wonderful, his wife is great,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and his son is so cute. And you see him
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: running around spring training now, so you get that human
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: element of it too. I think Parker Meadows has been
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: through a lot too in his career to get to
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: where he's at. Last year, he went through some of
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: the struggles of having to go back down to Triple
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: A and kind of coming back and being on its hair.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: So he's great. Jake Rogers has great stories.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: He's a Texas boy himself, so he always tells us
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: some fun stories.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: But I think they all at the Bullpen. Wait, I
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: could just say the Bullpen as a whole.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I got it. They're so fun to be around too.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: They've got all these crazy things that they do. And
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: will Vest is great, another guy who's got a phenomenal
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: family that he's building. His wife is great. Two kids
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: are so cute. But you get to see some of
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: that when you're around it every day. And they really
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: do have a great group of guys, both on the
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: baseball field and off too.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: They're all good people.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there were a couple of moments this spring I
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: like amongst the writers who were kind of like, you
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: know what, we're pretty lucky to have a very good
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: clubhouse to work with.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: We also got the Riley Green building his house story.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I think he was updating us along the entire way
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: last season. While he's playing a major league season, his
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: house back home is being remodeled and all this stuff,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: and he's still he's twenty four now, I think so
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: he was like, this is the first time doing any
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: of that, So it's pretty funny to get.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: That side of them, right. They're learning life and also
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: playing professional baseball.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, there's a lot of that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've I'm a big fan of the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: belief that like these character traits that you're talking about, Danielle,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: you know, they come from the top down. And aj
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Hinch is a guy that is obviously respected around the league.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: We've had him on the podcast, like he was great
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: in your opinion, Like what makes aj Hinch so successful?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And even just like you know from your dealings with
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: him and then just you know the stuff you see
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like on the field.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I just think the way that he builds relationships with
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: everybody is something that not all managers or coaches that
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I've been around have taken the time to do. And
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: when I say everybody, I mean everybody, whether it's media,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: all of his players, and you get results. Players start
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to trust you a lot, right, Like when they see
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the way that aj puts a game together or lineup
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: together and they know that it works, they trust him.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: So he has that ability to get the guys to
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: trust them get them to buy in and just be
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: super personable. We were just talking about personalities. Aja's great
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: and he's fun to be around, and he fits in
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: with the group really well. So the way that he
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: builds relationships is something that I've always appreciated about him,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: and even with me, just the way he's accepted me
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: into the media world and he answers the questions I have,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: even if they are not the best questions. I'm like, hey,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: you know, like help me out here, I'm going to
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: need you to answer that, and he totally does and
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: he loves it and he loves.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Baseball like you have to to be a manager, I think.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: But you can really see that radiating off him still
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: in his career.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I want to go back to something you said earlier
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: when you were talking about walking into the new clubhouse.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: You know you wanted to just have some confidence be yourself.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Building relationships is a big part of all of our jobs,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: and probably even more so when you are you know
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: you're going to be the team sideline reporter. It's important
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: that there's a level of comfortability with these guys. How
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: did you go about doing that? Did it come easily?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: And was there any secret? Because you've been very good
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: at it, well.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Some of it. For me, it is a little well.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And I don't mean that as like, oh, my personality
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: is just great whatever. Everybody like, That's not what I'm saying.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: I just have a more outgoing I'm not afraid to
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: approach people, never really have been. And I think that
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: confidence was a big part of it, because I learned
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: that with the Wings.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I went through it a little bit on that side.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I think as a younger reporter trying to learn how
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: to operate a room, learn what I can and can't
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: do in the room, or who I should be talking
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: to when that's part of the stuff I already knew.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: So going into baseball, I think I was just more
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: confident going and talking.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: To these players.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And my approach has always been get to know them
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: a little bit before you walk right up to them.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: And it's like, well, this is what I need today,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: let me just check the boxes of everything I need
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: for my stories. It's how are you, you know, would
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: you do with your off day? Or is the family
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: in town, or you know, just talking to them about
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: other life things. And this team is great about caring
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit about everybody else too, Like they'll ask
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: me or I walk into the clubhouse after or first
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: spring training this year and they're all telling me, congratulations,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: we saw you got married, you know. They they're very
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: good about that too, and making a little bit of
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: a personal relationship before the work relationship, And I think
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: that's super important to have with them and to build
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: their trust, like make sure you they do trust you,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: and that you don't do anything to kind to jeopardize
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: that trust, because that can make it really tough to
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: go back in there and rebuild the relationship.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Well, since you deal with both, I'm just kind of curious, like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: what's what's the main difference between baseball players and hockey players.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Hmm. This is a tough one because I get this
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: question a lot, and I truly love being around both sports,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: and both teams right now are kind of in the
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: same on the same track, right Like they're both trying
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: to get over the hump of being a playoff team
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: and being a consistent playoff team and making runs like that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: So I think they're they're in similar spots. Hockey players
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: tend to be a little bit more.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Serious in my experience, They're.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: A little more serious all the time, a little bit
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: more buttoned up all the time than the baseball players
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: have been with me. And I think that kind of
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: does come from the every danus of baseball. We're around
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: them every day at some point, right, whether it's you know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: in the morning, after the game, whatever, We're around them
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: at some point.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So I think that that has something to do with it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: But I've noticed that that hockey players just tend to
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: be slightly more serious, at least on the record.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's very interesting because yeah, the everyday
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: thing is. But also at the same time, its not
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like hockey is a short season either, you know, those
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: those are those are long seasons as well, so you know,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and also I think being on skates would bring different
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: personality traits for different guys as well. Actually, who do
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you think is the best ice skater on the Tigers.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Probably Torque because he played hockey.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, actually that was an easy one. That was
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: an easy one.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Jake Rodgers thinks he can be a goalie, so that's
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: that's a real I'm pretty sure he's just like, yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I can catch, so I must be able to play
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: goalie too. No, you kind of don't, you know. What
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: pitches are coming. I'm not sure you know what kind
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: of shots coming at you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Well about the other way. Any Red Wings players think
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: they can play baseball, No, you.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Know, I've never talked about baseball with them. I've talked
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: about football a lot with them. I feel like they'd
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: all h who would be the best baseball player Dylan Larkin's.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: For some reason, I feel like Dylan Larkin could play baseball.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: But that's just me speculating.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna report back on this.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I've asked the hockey question, but I've never asked the
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: hockey players a baseball question.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I bet there could be some pitchers in that room.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know why, just like the physique, like I
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: feel like they could. They could throw hard with a
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: little bit of work.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I have asked Alex Lyon because of the Jake Rogers converse.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I said, Hey, do you think since you're a goalie
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: you could catch? And he said absolutely not.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure how Jake equates it in his head,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I'd like to see it try.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I'd like to seem dry. I would.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Speaking of the personality, thing like Baseball's I mean, hockey,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I guess is too, But baseball is just such a
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: silly game sometimes, like it's so long, so many things
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: are out of your control, just stupid things happen throughout
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the course of the season. I think these guys learned,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Like I mean, it's not like they're all loose all
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: the time. They're also under a lot of pressure, but
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: some of them learn to just like shrug at it
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and laugh sometimes. I think, I think you can see that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And I think it's it's so with baseball players in particular,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: like they can go through really bad slumps and still
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: get themselves out of it and be okay and just
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: kind of look at you and tell you, yeah, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: mean it happens.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: It's baseball.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Like you're not going to be great all the time,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: and most sports don't. I don't really have that that
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: attitude about it. And I've noticed it heavily in baseball.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: If you're a hockey player and you're on a nine
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: game scoreless streak, like you're not feeling very good about it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You know, And I don't.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying baseball players feel good about being in
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: a slump, but I think they feel confident that they
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: will get out of it, and they've done it before,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: they've seen it happen before, they know what work they
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: have to do, and with hockey players, they'll get out
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: of it. But it seems a little bit more serious
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: when things like that are happening where baseball players can
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: kind of, you know, just go at the flow day
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: by day. We play every day, We're gonna I'm going
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to get back into it at some point.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: So I was curious, Daniella. You know, Cody one time
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: told the story on the podcast of seeing Kirk Gibson
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and Dennis Eckersley like past each other in the hallway
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, what's up. And these two guys
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: are linked in history for one of the most you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: important moments in World series history, and it's just like
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: he was like, it's just like, wow, this is my life.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I just saw you know, Gibson Eggursly just kind of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: like walk in the you know, walk in the hallway.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Curiod.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just chills, like what just happened. So I am
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: curious if there's a moment or moments with you, especially,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you know, given these are your hometown teams where it's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: just like like hot, damn, like this, this is my career,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: this is my life. I just saw like I couldn't
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: imagine like seeing something like this or interacting with this person,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you know, ten years ago or when I didn't know
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: what I was going to do with my life or whatever.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's like a moment or a moment
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: or two with you for that, well.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I have a few because of the whole Detroit sports tie,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: but I do have to say one that wasn't Detroit
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: sports related. The first time I saw Aaron Judge in person,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I was like walking to the clubhouse and we kind
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: of walked past each other. I was like, oh my gosh,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: that's Aaron Judge, which is you know, and he's huge,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Like he's massive. So that was another thing where it
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: was just that was one of the things that was shocking.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: But Miguel Cabrera, I was so excited that I got
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: to work as at the end of his career, cover
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: his final season as a Tiger.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: That was really really cool and for me, I had
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: never met Jim Leland.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Before I started working with the Tigers, and that lived
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: up to every expectation I ever had.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I love every time I see Jim Leland.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Now I actually have a funny story, no secret that
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: he likes to smoke a cigarette or two.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: He asked me one time. He goes, hey, do you want
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: a cigarette? And we were like in the dugout and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I'm good. I don't smoke cigarettes.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And I look back on that all the time, like,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: why didn't I just smoke a cigarette with you?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Take it? There was an intern twenty fifteen. I'm covering
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: the Texas Rangers. Ron Washington was an assistant with the a's.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I was doing a story and met him down on
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: the dugout. I'm twenty twenty one. Sit down next to
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: this guy and I'm kind of nervous just to talk
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: to him. He crosses his legs, pulls out a heater,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: you want one? And I was just like, I'm an intern.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I Number one, I don't really smoke. Number two, I'm
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: not going to smoke in the dugout.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So I said no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: And just like that, I think all the time, why
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: did I not smoke a cigarette with Ron Washington? Come on, Jim,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: a cigarette?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: What the hell I'm doing it?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: If Jim Leland ever offers me another cigarette, if you
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: see me smoking it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: No, you did it, because.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Everybody's got to have a everybody's got their limits, right,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and Jim Leland and Ron Washington definitely check that box, right. Yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: it's okay. Yeah, the expression doesn't count. Those cigarettes don't count.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: There's some good hockey ones too, obviously. Steve Eiserman is
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the Red Wings general manager. Nick Lindstrom is around all
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: the time. Chris Draper, so those guys, and Darren McCarty
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: he's around all the time.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I see him all the time.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: So those guys were like your childhood heroes at some point,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: right when you're growing.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Up with those teams in the nineties.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I've met some pretty cool people along the way,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and now it feels kind of normal, which again sometimes
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I have to like step back and be like, don't
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: take that for granted.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That's pretty freaking cool that that's what you have to
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: do for work.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. So I guess we'll wrap up this way.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I know we talked about expectations, but is there something
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that you're most looking forward to? I know it kind
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of seems like a similar question, but what are you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: most looking forward to with the team or you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: particular player or whatever. With the Tigers this year.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I think what I'm most looking forward to this year
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: is just seeing how they respond after a run like
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: last year, because it was pretty magical, it was pretty improbable.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: How do you respond to something like that? And I
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: think that'll say a lot about this team. And watching
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  Speaker 3: Trek Schooble pitch a cy young season, how does he
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  Speaker 3: respond to that? But what does his follow up year
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  Speaker 3: look like? I think there's so many good storylines surrounding
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  Speaker 3: this team. There's battles at third base, which is going
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: to be interesting to see what they do there. There's
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: going to be the Spencer Torkelsen. Is he going to
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: make a bid to be on this opening day roster?
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to want to write like that's
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: the goal here and seeing how his story pans out.
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  Speaker 3: So I think there's a lot of really good stuff
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: to watch this year and how the rotation is gonna
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: finish out for they say this, and I know it's cliche,
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  Speaker 3: but the opening day roster.
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  Speaker 2: For pitching, like it's great, but everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they're gonna need all of these pitchers,
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  Speaker 3: so to have everybody pitching well is a.
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  Speaker 2: Really good thing right now.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully we see that kind of go into the
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: season as well. But I think overall, it's just how
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  Speaker 3: how does this team respond because now there are expectations
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  Speaker 3: not only internally but externally, fans, the organization, everybody has
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: some higher expectations for them this year.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I feel like every time we talk about this team
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: and the roster battles, were like, I mean, but we'll
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: see them all at some point this season.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: That I guess the hard thing is because is it
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: really that third or do we know that they'll probably
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: platoon since they don't have the everyday third basement. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: know Aj has told me he would love in every
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: day third basement and hope somebody does take the reins
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: on that, but I don't know if that's gonna be
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: the case on the on the take right now?
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  Speaker 4: Well no, then I'm just like, in a way, you
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: hope we don't have to see all them because that
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: means people are either struggling or injured. But also it's
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: baseball and the reality is no, we probably one way
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: or another are going to see every single So.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, status battle he made the opening day roster or whatever.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's like, you know, starting starting
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: five in basketball? Does it really matter or does it
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: matter who finishes the game? You know, So that's kind
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of That's kind of how I look at it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: And there's the Hobby Baias story too, like did the
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: surgery help him? Is he going to be better this year?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: So Tray Sweeney has been great for the Tigers leading
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: up to this point, so how that position plays out
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: too is interesting.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Lots of stories and how the fans are For me,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: it's like how the fans are, like, you know, what
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: kind of environment is Camerica gonna be, especially like you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: look at the highlights from last season. You know a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: lot of those games, it's you know, there's a lot
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of seatbacks that you see, you know what I mean.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So I'd like to see k America kind of return.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be every game obviously, but kind of
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: return to, you know, basically what I grew up with,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: that being, which is one of the most fun venues
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in baseball. So that would be one of the things
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to as well. All right, Well, a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: lot of fun discussions, a lot of fun little stories
• 32:10
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• 32:12
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• 32:34
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