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Tigers Pitching, Hitting Hot In 5-Game Win Streak · 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.
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Speaker 2: Gay with Tiger's podcast. I'm exactly with me.
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Speaker 1: As always a man who knows the difference when good
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Speaker 1: wings and bad wings.
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Speaker 2: He's Cody Stavenhagen. How you doing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were trying to find what caused Cody Bellinger's
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Speaker 3: food poisoning scratch from the Yankees lineup against the Tigers.
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Speaker 3: I was mentioning one of our Yankees guys. It was like,
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Speaker 3: let me know where you got these wings so I
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Speaker 3: can stay away from there. Then we started talking about
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Speaker 3: Sweetwater Tavern and then I was like, number one, Sweetwater,
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Speaker 3: you would never get food poisoning. Number two. I don't
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Speaker 3: think Cody Dollinger was posted up amongst like the old
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Speaker 3: school detroiters at Sweetwater. He probably ordered from some terrible
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Speaker 3: place out in the suburbs, got it like delivered to
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Speaker 3: his room, and the wings were probably bad and in
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Speaker 3: addition to literally being bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it could have been from whatever
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Speaker 1: like hotel or Yeah, it was most likely a chain.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he was scavenged.
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Speaker 1: Mark Canna scavenging you know every town for you know,
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Speaker 1: the local food.
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Speaker 2: What the food he is like?
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Speaker 3: So still an important topic. If you guys think we're
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Speaker 3: wasting time here, we're not. Just an important topic. That's
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Speaker 3: why we're leading with it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly. It's investigative journalism at its finals. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: we are recording this Tuesday night as of now, Cody,
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Speaker 1: the Tigers. Tigers are hot. The Tigers are hot. Don't
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Speaker 1: let them get hot because they already are hot.
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Speaker 2: That's five in a row. Today was a five nothing.
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Speaker 1: Victory over the New York Yankees on Monday, six to
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Speaker 1: two for those keeping score at home, that's eleven runs
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Speaker 1: for the Tigers and two for the Yankees, who came
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Speaker 1: into this series kind of heavy with one game there,
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Speaker 1: but when they plus thirty one run differential, So not
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Speaker 1: nothing there, Cody, And I gotta tell you they're they're
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Speaker 1: playing a brand of ball that makes you one.
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Speaker 2: If you're watching on TV.
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Speaker 1: If you're at the games, you know this, but you're
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Speaker 1: watching on TV, you forget how cold it is. You guys,
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Speaker 1: got ron Don out there with no sleeves on, and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of sunny, so it looks nice.
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Speaker 2: And then two.
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Speaker 1: Kind of makes you forget about the injuries like this,
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Speaker 1: they are playing a complete brand of baseball and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna break it down here a little bit. But like
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Speaker 1: everything seems to be working for the Tigers right now.
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Speaker 1: It's on accident. I would say that they've won five.
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Speaker 2: In a row.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Karen really impressed with the way the team has played,
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Speaker 3: especially these last two days against the Yankees. This is
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Speaker 3: not the White Sox. This Yankees pitching is not in
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Speaker 3: the best shape right now. But Rodin's no easy matchup.
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Speaker 3: This is still not an easy opponent by any means.
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Speaker 3: Casey Miz looks terrific again in his second start. We're
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Speaker 3: gonna talk a lot more about him, I'm sure. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: like you mentioned the injuries, I think it's incredibly important
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Speaker 3: to note that Tigers are doing this without Pargrimetto's, without
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Speaker 3: Matt Feeling, without Labor Torres. Those are three guys who
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Speaker 3: are going to be on any roster throughout the year.
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Speaker 3: Also without wintled Perez. You know, now Manuel Mark goes
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Speaker 3: on the injured list now. Unfortunately, as of Tuesday, Jake
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Speaker 3: Rodgers is on the injured list. These are stacking up
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Speaker 3: a seven and four start, isn't It's a very small
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Speaker 3: sample over the course of a long season. I believe
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Speaker 3: the Tigers were seven and four at this exact point
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Speaker 3: last year then kind of quickly fell off a cliff
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Speaker 3: before they had to make their monumental comeback. But to
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Speaker 3: stack wins when you don't actually have your real team,
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Speaker 3: and to be hitting the ball well when you don't
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Speaker 3: have some of your more impactful offensive players in the lineup,
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Speaker 3: that's not nothing.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 3: That makes me pretty encouraged. If the Tigers can keep
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Speaker 3: playing good ball in April, there's it's not hard to
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Speaker 3: see things only trending up as the summer, as we
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Speaker 3: get in deeper into the summer.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, with.
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Speaker 1: The Casey Mais piece of this, I had said previously
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Speaker 1: that if you're for ways that you're gonna boost your
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Speaker 1: overall ceiling as a team is having Casey Mice come
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Speaker 1: out and be more or less a number three.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine him as a number two. It was
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Speaker 2: kind of like what we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: And then we'll go out and we see him against
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Speaker 1: the Yankees to open this series. He goes six, he
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Speaker 1: strikes out six, he has the three walks in their
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Speaker 1: four hits. He's getting he's getting overlay videos on Pitching Ninja.
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Speaker 1: I believe it's Pitching Ninja. It was one of those
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Speaker 1: popular accounts with the fastball and the split action, and
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Speaker 1: just like like, how like this is the most dialed
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Speaker 1: in Casey Mice I've ever seen.
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Speaker 2: I assume probably the same for you.
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Speaker 1: And then like I it blew my mind. He had
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Speaker 1: not recorded a win, you know, wins whatever, but you're
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Speaker 1: not recorded to win since twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 2: At home, Cody like, I know that injuries and this
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Speaker 2: and that, but no, that's crazy.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy, And he like, if you, I think this
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Speaker 1: is a good way to put it with Casey Mice
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Speaker 1: without kind of breaking down every single little number.
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Speaker 2: If you.
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Speaker 1: Were to see this version of Casey my say circa
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, you're like, oh, cut, homie looks like
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Speaker 1: a number one overall pick you know that that kind
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Speaker 1: of outings, two starts, whatever. But those are the kind
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Speaker 1: of things that we're seeing right now from Casey Mice.
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Speaker 1: And and based on everything that he's been through and
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Speaker 1: how he carries himself, couldn't be happier for the guy.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's a boom for this team to get
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Speaker 1: this kind of production out of you know, your literal
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Speaker 1: number five starter.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the split continues to be what stands out most.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he is throwing still three different variations of
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Speaker 3: the slighter mis joked like, you guys probably shouldn't even
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Speaker 3: look at stack cast because it doesn't actually know what
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Speaker 3: I'm doing, Like he has stat cast all confused, and
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Speaker 3: so that's giving him some different stuff to go to.
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Speaker 3: But I think the split is tying together this entire arsenal. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the overlay, I mean it's been straight up north vertical
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Speaker 3: set fastball, south diving splitter. Good luck deciphering which is
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Speaker 3: which until either that ball moves or it's by you.
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Speaker 3: There were times when the pass I was like, why
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Speaker 3: doesn't maze pitch like that? You know, we hear hitters
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Speaker 3: were kind of laying off the split. Maybe it was
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Speaker 3: just too detectable. Maybe that wasn't actually a good game plan.
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Speaker 3: Truth was, the split just was not moving like it
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Speaker 3: is now. He generated six whiffs on the split. Yankees
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Speaker 3: better swung out it eight times, so they whiffed three
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Speaker 3: fourths of their swings against Casey Mizus splitter. The fastball
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Speaker 3: continues to look good. The variations of the slider all have,
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Speaker 3: you know, varying degrees of usefulness through two starts, only
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Speaker 3: two starts. But I could not be more impressed with
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Speaker 3: what we have seen from Casey Mice. If this splitter
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Speaker 3: keeps moving like this, I think he's going.
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Speaker 2: To have a very very good year.
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Speaker 1: So you're what you're saying, is that Casey Mice and
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Speaker 1: in an arrow where you know the machines are taken
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Speaker 1: over with AI, he's he's he's conquering artificial intelligence because
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Speaker 1: they can't even figure out what he's trying to do
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Speaker 1: with the ball. So so it's so Casey Mice boon
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Speaker 1: for mankind as well in addition to boone for the Tigers.
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Speaker 1: Uh well, we'll get to another stellar pitching performance here
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Speaker 1: in a second.
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Speaker 1: So what we we got to see today Cody was
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Speaker 1: another stellar pitcher with pitching performance and that's Trek schouogball
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Speaker 1: and we if you're watching on YouTube, we have a
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Speaker 1: little tongue in cheek graphic here.
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Speaker 2: School Ball is back. Now obviously he never left, never
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Speaker 2: never left. He never left. But like we we talked
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Speaker 2: about how he you know, location wasn't great.
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Speaker 1: You know, the velocity was there and everything, everything was fine,
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Speaker 1: you know, no concerns there, but location wasn't great. He
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Speaker 1: had allowed some hard contact and he finished his Seattle
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Speaker 1: start really strong. So I said, you know, metaphorically, gonna
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Speaker 1: bet on Trek Scooble in his next outing. Well, his
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Speaker 1: next outing was today Cody, and he was stellar against
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Speaker 1: six six innings, six strikeouts, four hits, zero walks, though
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Speaker 1: he had at one point he helive hits you know,
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Speaker 1: not soft contact either, hits to the first two guys
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Speaker 1: in the Yankee order, and after that he went sixteen
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Speaker 1: in a row and the seventeenth was probably one that
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Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about that a little later. Maybe
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Speaker 1: should have been at least seventeen, but that's okay. So
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Speaker 1: school bol Uh, this was a perfect scenario. And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna kind of be spacey here, but this was a
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Speaker 1: perfect scenario where you could have had some sort of letdown.
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Speaker 1: You have the series opening, when you know, it's as
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, it's it's cold outside.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's dealing with it. But that's just a variable, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. And then.
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Speaker 1: Like you believe in the school aspect that he's gonna
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Speaker 1: come back, but you don't necessarily, it's not a guarantee.
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Speaker 1: And this is the Yankees, right, It's not like he
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Speaker 1: got the quote unquote bounce back start against the White
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Speaker 1: Sox and then you throw in the Rogers day. So
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Speaker 1: it's like there's like all these variables that could have
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Speaker 1: been some sort of yeah now.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't. It wasn't.
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Speaker 3: I think that was the most interesting thing about it
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Speaker 3: is that this is the first time he had not
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Speaker 3: thrown to Jake Rogers since what the end of twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three. It'd been a very long time. And not
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Speaker 3: only that, it's not this was planned. Dylan Dingler found
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Speaker 3: out he was catching about an hour before the game.
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Speaker 3: Jake goes down to the batting cage, shakes a swing,
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Speaker 3: feels a tweak and his oblique and then it was
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Speaker 3: kind of, you know, chaos mode from there. Obviously, Dylan
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Speaker 3: had worked a little bit with Jake or with Trek
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Speaker 3: in spring training, that was by design, largely in anticipation
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Speaker 3: for something just like this, So you know, clearly they
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Speaker 3: worked together pretty seamlessly. Trek said he only shook one time,
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Speaker 3: so it wasn't necessarily a huge deal. But in addition,
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Speaker 3: it was the Yankees, but he faced four left handed
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Speaker 3: batters in this lineup. Now Trent Grisham has left as well.
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Speaker 3: Geticism was a good hitter. In a way, it was
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Speaker 3: actually tailored toward Trek having a good day.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the rise piece of this, I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: the guy that you feel pretty good about, you know,
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Speaker 1: being able to take advantage of if you're the Tigers.
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Speaker 1: But he's still a talented young cat and we saw
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Speaker 1: that in the previous games. So like it was again,
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Speaker 1: all these kind of weird elements were in place and
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Speaker 1: school ball had none of that. And it's not like
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Speaker 1: he pitched flawlessly. I thought there were several instances where
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Speaker 1: he left balls over the plate, you know, change ups.
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Speaker 2: That you know you are a little bit more up
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Speaker 2: than you want.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he went middle middle a little bit too
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Speaker 1: much that I think generally speaking, you feel that comfortable with.
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Speaker 2: But at the same time it's schooble.
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Speaker 1: You kind of trust that like if he if I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna say he meant to do that, But at
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Speaker 1: the same time you kind of say, like you'll take
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Speaker 1: your chances with Schooble in those situations. And and and
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Speaker 1: he didn't even have like he didn't even have to
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Speaker 1: like get that like emotional high.
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Speaker 2: Like he was pretty like kind of calm majority of
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Speaker 2: this game. Made a nice defensive play, not like webjam.
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Speaker 1: Or anything like that, but like you know, the swinging
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Speaker 1: bunt to Jazz where he's got to pick it up
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Speaker 1: and up it with his left hand down the line,
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Speaker 1: like that's not nothing.
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Speaker 2: Those are a nice athletic place.
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Speaker 1: He did have the juggle there to begin the game,
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Speaker 1: but he's still maintain his composure and and got the
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Speaker 1: out first.
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Speaker 2: So overall, it was you're playing.
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Speaker 3: They're one of the things that stood out. Talking to
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Speaker 3: Terrek after the game, it was just like, you guys
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Speaker 3: have won five in a row despite all these guys
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Speaker 3: who were injured. What does that say about the team?
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Speaker 3: Terrek being Trek being the ultimate competitors, Like, yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: it should be eight in a row, except we lost
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Speaker 3: one of my starts. He's like, that's on me, that's
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Speaker 3: my fault and then someone was like, really, man, that
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Speaker 3: still bothers me. He's like, no, I'm not, I'm just joking.
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Speaker 3: But it would be like it was like, clearly that
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Speaker 3: tells you the thing something about Yrek school right there.
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Speaker 3: I guess it's cool for an athlete to say, ah,
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Speaker 3: like you flush that, you move on to the next one.
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Speaker 3: Terrek was still irked that they lost one of his
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Speaker 3: starts in Seattle, and so maybe that played some sort
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Speaker 3: of psychological role in him coming out on Tuesday and throwing.
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Speaker 1: Six score well at the same time, like I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, like, it's the Yankees and you're on You're
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Speaker 1: the only game going on. Yes, it's a week day
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Speaker 1: and you know, and it's midday, so it's not like,
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Speaker 1: you know, prime time, but you're the only thing that
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Speaker 1: people are talking about. You know, the same that goes
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Speaker 1: for Casey Miz but he doesn't have the burden of school.
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Speaker 1: You're the only thing people are talking about in the sport,
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Speaker 1: you know, leading up up until you play, and then
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Speaker 1: your performance is gonna is gonna dictate the social media
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Speaker 1: that n will be network, you know all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: So like it's it's I always like when you're a
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Speaker 1: team on the come up, which on a off of
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Speaker 1: surprise playoff appearance, you still kind of are for the
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Speaker 1: next season. I believe like you got to kind of
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Speaker 1: show up in somewhat big moments and this isn't like
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Speaker 1: a big moment, and it's early April. I understand that,
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Speaker 1: but this is the entire baseball world is gonna watch you,
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Speaker 1: and will Be Network is promoting you like that stuff
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Speaker 1: like matters from a team reputation standpoint, UH is basically
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Speaker 1: my big point there. But well is back. We'll have
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Speaker 1: a graph that ask to somebody else's back. We gotta
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Speaker 1: we gotta give credit here, Cody, because we were like,
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Speaker 1: you spurned it on me in our last episode and
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I know what you're I see,
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Speaker 1: I see what you're saying because I'm I'm thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten there yet, but I'm thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: And then Andy A Bonyez against the left handed pitcher.
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Speaker 1: It's a three run home run that sparks a Uh,
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Speaker 1: sparks a victory to open the series and a pitch
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Speaker 1: that he got a hold of in a in a
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Speaker 1: big way.
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Speaker 2: So credit to Andy and Bonyez.
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Speaker 1: If you watch the Yankees broadcast, they're kind of like, ah,
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Speaker 1: you gave him a home run to a guy hitting
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Speaker 1: five or whatever. His battering average was coming in. Uh,
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Speaker 1: But Andy A Bonyez kind of reminding us who Andy
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Speaker 1: A Bonnyez really is.
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Speaker 2: So credit to him there.
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Speaker 3: I like to envision Andy was sitting at his locker,
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Speaker 3: he had hit a little tiger territory on YouTube, and
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Speaker 3: he's watching. He's the these guys are starting to doubt me,
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Speaker 3: and that was the fuel he needed. That's that's got
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Speaker 3: to be the true backstory, right, No, I found it
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Speaker 3: hilarious talking to Andy. We as you alluded to earlier,
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Speaker 3: we live in this age of all this data and
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Speaker 3: all this all these metrics. You know what Andy Abanyez
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Speaker 3: did to go get himself right. Kieran showed up to
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Speaker 3: the park early, got in the cage with the hitting coach.
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Speaker 3: Lance's Awadski. In this case, the number three hitting coach
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Speaker 3: probably doesn't get a lot of credit. Start swinging a broomstick.
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Speaker 3: This guy's swinging a broomstick, all right, and because it's
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Speaker 3: long and I think I think you split your hands.
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Speaker 2: For this drill.
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Speaker 3: His top hand wasn't coming through, right. He was kind
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Speaker 3: of pulling it in, so he's cutting himself off. He's
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Speaker 3: not making good contact. It's a drill to keep your
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Speaker 3: top hands strong. So he goes and he does that
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Speaker 3: drill all morning, and he gets in the game and
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Speaker 3: he gets a change up that's a little bit over
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Speaker 3: the plate, and what.
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Speaker 1: Does he do.
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Speaker 3: He keeps that top hand strong, hard through the zone,
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Speaker 3: connects on the barrel a three spot, a three run
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Speaker 3: home on and that was huge in Monday's victory Andy
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Speaker 3: against the lefty. Maybe just maybe that swing can get
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Speaker 3: him going a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I love all these like weird drills that just like
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Speaker 1: looks silly. You know, the two glove you know, glove
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Speaker 1: on each hand and then and then you'll swing in
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Speaker 1: a broom.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's perfect. That's perfect.
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Speaker 3: These you've speculated about that too hand drill for two
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Speaker 3: years now, never really got a fooling. I asked that
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Speaker 3: mckinstree recently, So why do you guys do that? He said,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I do think as someone once told this,
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Speaker 3: it is it's basically like you know, cross training for
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Speaker 3: your brain, your you're training. I don't know. I'm not
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Speaker 3: smart enough to understand it. But it's kind of like
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Speaker 3: neurologically related, is my understanding.
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Speaker 1: There you go, and if it's unlocking things, more credit
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Speaker 1: to McKinstry went bomb today, as did Torque, as did Dingler.
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Speaker 3: McKinstry, Hey, no, we're gonna so off that. Like you're
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Speaker 3: training your brain and your eyes to move and sync
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Speaker 3: with your hands. You know what the King Street does.
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Speaker 3: If he's on the bench and he's going into pinchhit,
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Speaker 3: you know what he does. He juggles. He gets three
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Speaker 3: baseballs and he juggles highly that that was pretty interesting.
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Speaker 1: These guys are all nuts, man, They're they're crazy people.
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Speaker 1: They get they have so many, so many ways to
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Speaker 1: get them, get them psyched, get them going and and
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Speaker 1: and he got here. It's obviously working, uh so, so
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Speaker 1: credit to him there. We're not gonna spend a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of time on on Torque because he's just continuing
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Speaker 1: to uh to to do what he's done this entire
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Speaker 1: regular season. But he's among other people making things more
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Speaker 1: complicated that we'll have time to to discuss later on.
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Speaker 1: But Carry Carpenter, you know I can't have an episode,
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Speaker 1: why don't shout out Carry Carpenter getting a home run
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Speaker 1: off a lefty, just saying like like it had it
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Speaker 1: happened today. Yeah, And he's got four right this year.
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Speaker 1: Code he's got four home.
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Speaker 3: Runs, four homers, two against the lefty.
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Speaker 2: That's a pretty it's pretty good ratio. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think he might be ready for Chapman.
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Speaker 1: But you know, good on him, because that's also a
18:11
Speaker 1: weird lefty to to hit against, you know, with with
18:15
Speaker 1: the with the release, and I mean, that's good on him.
18:18
Speaker 2: I hope that's a good confidence booster for him.
18:21
Speaker 1: And and same thing with Dingler, who's now gonna have
18:24
Speaker 1: to be you know, we'll talk about him here in
18:26
Speaker 1: a second, but he's gonna have to be carrying a
18:28
Speaker 1: little bit more below it. All right, we are going
18:31
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18:34
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Speaker 1: All right, coming back here, Cody, a lot of and
19:46
Speaker 1: again talk about the weird day, the thing I was
19:48
Speaker 1: referencing earlier. It's just like a lot of like good
19:50
Speaker 1: news and kind of ant news and mystery news with
19:53
Speaker 1: the team, and you know the chaos surrounding that. So
19:55
Speaker 1: the fact that they are to come out with a
19:56
Speaker 1: shutout when I thought was like really reassured for you know,
20:00
Speaker 1: a lot of like intangible type reasons, but the big,
20:04
Speaker 1: the head the big headline is Jake Rogers, as we
20:07
Speaker 1: talked about going on the on the i L with
20:10
Speaker 1: the oblique Manuel Margo the knee inflammation, that's also a
20:15
Speaker 1: ten day i L stint for him at least for now,
20:18
Speaker 1: and the corresponding moves so with Rogers, see if you
20:23
Speaker 1: follow me along here, for Rodgers, they had to bring
20:25
Speaker 1: up Tomas Nito not on the forty man, so to
20:28
Speaker 1: make room for Nito on the forty man they put
20:31
Speaker 1: Wenzel Perez on the sixty day i L. And then
20:36
Speaker 1: to replace Manuel, they called up Brewer Hicklin, who was
20:41
Speaker 1: the only outfielder not in the majors or injured on
20:47
Speaker 1: the forty man roster, so by process of elimination, he
20:51
Speaker 1: was literally the next guy up. Good for him, he's
20:55
Speaker 1: he's he's got an interesting story. I'm sure we'll talk
20:57
Speaker 1: about it here in a second, but just just a
21:00
Speaker 1: litany of stuff going on. And it all started with
21:03
Speaker 1: you putting out on X at Cody Sabenhagen.
21:06
Speaker 2: Brewer Hickland is in the clubhouse and then and then
21:09
Speaker 2: the fallout occurred from there.
21:11
Speaker 3: So yeah, there was a lot going on that day.
21:14
Speaker 3: We'll talk about Brewer real quick, because this guy seems
21:17
Speaker 3: like he kind of came out of nowhere, right Tigers
21:19
Speaker 3: cleaned him toward the end of spring training or acquired
21:22
Speaker 3: him for cash considerations from none other than the Milwaukee Brewers.
21:27
Speaker 3: Brewers him or his bio on Instagram now, says Brewer
21:32
Speaker 3: Tiger Hicklin. So I don't know that much about him
21:36
Speaker 3: as a player. I mean, he has an ability to
21:38
Speaker 3: dominate the strike zone, get on base a little bit.
21:41
Speaker 3: He can he can swipe some bags, swipe forty four
21:44
Speaker 3: bases in Triple A last year and maybe even yeah,
21:48
Speaker 3: twenty two homers. I mean, so for Triple A, it
21:50
Speaker 3: kind of impressed of you to forty six last season.
21:53
Speaker 3: There's obviously a skill set there to like. He is
21:57
Speaker 3: twenty nine years old. But if this guy gets you
22:00
Speaker 3: run with the Tigers, and I don't know if he
22:01
Speaker 3: will or not, you know something that will probably depend
22:03
Speaker 3: on whether Glaber Torres does a rehab assignment or not.
22:07
Speaker 3: That's TBD right now. But I think fans might like
22:09
Speaker 3: this guy. He's got some speed, he can he can
22:11
Speaker 3: do multiple things, and he's got a cool story. Seems
22:14
Speaker 3: like a very outgoing, talkative guy. I mean he was
22:17
Speaker 3: talking it just met him. He's talking about like crying
22:20
Speaker 3: in his car when he got DFAD. But then, you know,
22:24
Speaker 3: trusting God, and God opened this new door and new
22:26
Speaker 3: opportunity for him. So he's a man of faith. He
22:30
Speaker 3: has gone through a lot to persevere. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
22:36
Speaker 3: He had stayed there, drove up to Nashville, where he
22:39
Speaker 3: thought he was going to begin the season, learned he
22:41
Speaker 3: got DFAID, went back to Huntsville, found out he was
22:44
Speaker 3: going to Toledo. So he goes back to Nashville, packs
22:46
Speaker 3: up his apartment, moves gets to the Toledo. He's there
22:49
Speaker 3: for a little bit, plays a road series in Round Rock.
22:52
Speaker 3: Back to Toledo. Hey, Budd, you're coming to Detroit. Been
22:56
Speaker 3: quite a two plus weeks for one Brewer Hicklin. I
23:00
Speaker 3: kind of hope we get to see this guy on
23:01
Speaker 3: the field because he's had two very brief stints in
23:04
Speaker 3: the major leagues, one with the Royals, one with the Brewers.
23:07
Speaker 3: He's oh for nine in his major league career, so
23:09
Speaker 3: he's still looking for that elusive first major League.
23:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this year's version of Ryan Balaide so, you know,
23:20
Speaker 1: and he got his hit last year, so hopefully, hopefully,
23:23
Speaker 1: look he called him up.
23:24
Speaker 2: I haven't.
23:25
Speaker 1: I have to imagine we'll see him at some point
23:28
Speaker 1: because AJ I don't know if you know this, Cody
23:30
Speaker 1: but A likes to he likes to use his betch
23:33
Speaker 1: every now and then, so so hopefully.
23:36
Speaker 3: In my hotsake, though, man, they probably could have just
23:38
Speaker 3: called up Jase Young, who's off to a nice start
23:41
Speaker 3: in Triple A. In a way, you almost need another
23:45
Speaker 3: left handed bat, believe it or not, and you'd have
23:49
Speaker 3: to play Jahn in the outfield more, I guess. But
23:51
Speaker 3: like you, I don't know. I wish the best for
23:56
Speaker 3: Brewer Hicklin, but I kind of think maybe you should
23:59
Speaker 3: just do this simple thing and called Jason.
24:03
Speaker 1: Well the best news from this, you know, injury stuff,
24:08
Speaker 1: and it was and it was literally buried on the
24:10
Speaker 1: injury report. So they buried the lead a little bit,
24:14
Speaker 1: the Tigers did. Matt ver Lane can start throwing a baseball.
24:21
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has already. I assume he
24:23
Speaker 1: probably has.
24:24
Speaker 3: But he threw I believe for the first time Tuesday
24:27
Speaker 3: out in the thirty degree cold, AJ Hinch that he
24:30
Speaker 3: raced out there that's how excited he was.
24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:32
Speaker 1: So so Matt ver Lane is on a they just
24:36
Speaker 1: call it throwing progression throwing program. That's obviously the biggest thing,
24:41
Speaker 1: because I think the longer this went on, the more
24:43
Speaker 1: your mind was kind of going to longer term injury
24:49
Speaker 1: concerns considerations, and so the fact that he got this
24:52
Speaker 1: news today, I imagine that he's going to do everything
24:56
Speaker 1: in his power to try to get back get back
24:59
Speaker 1: playing as soon as possible. So you might you might
25:01
Speaker 1: have some outfield help on the way sooner than we
25:04
Speaker 1: thought just twenty four hours ago. So that's that's good
25:07
Speaker 1: for the tires and torres too. Like it seems like
25:10
Speaker 1: if if this was September, he might already be.
25:13
Speaker 3: Up, so like there's yeah, I'm still a little leery
25:16
Speaker 3: with Glaber. This is an oblique I don't know many
25:19
Speaker 3: guys who come back from obliques in ten days. Even
25:21
Speaker 3: though Glaber seems to be on a great track. Vierling,
25:26
Speaker 3: I was worried Virlin could be headed for the sixty days.
25:28
Speaker 3: Sounds like he got great news on his last MRI,
25:31
Speaker 3: and if it tells you anything, Winsl went to the
25:33
Speaker 3: sixty day and Matt Verling did not no a J.
25:36
Speaker 3: Hinchick kind of caution, like, hey, he has to build up,
25:38
Speaker 3: he has to I don't think Matt Vierling's going to
25:41
Speaker 3: be back in like five days. He's got to go
25:43
Speaker 3: through a throwing progression. He has to be able to
25:45
Speaker 3: make all sorts of throws from outfield, from third base,
25:49
Speaker 3: from different arm angles, and then he's gonna go on
25:51
Speaker 3: a rehab assignment. Given how much time he's missed, you
25:54
Speaker 3: could envision that being he's somewhat longer rehab assignment. But
25:59
Speaker 3: sounds like it. You know, it's not going to be
26:00
Speaker 3: a sixty day thing or anything of that nature. So
26:03
Speaker 3: certainly good news. And then with Jake Rogers, we're still
26:06
Speaker 3: kind of waiting to learn more about it. It's an
26:08
Speaker 3: oblique so they didn't use the word strain yet. They
26:13
Speaker 3: only called it tightness. But when I hear the word oblique,
26:16
Speaker 3: I tend to automatically think a month, I guess somewhat
26:20
Speaker 3: a good thing. You do have a legit experienced backup
26:23
Speaker 3: in Thomas Nido, who drove up from Toledo, arrived in
26:27
Speaker 3: about the fourth inning of Tuesday's game, just as the
26:30
Speaker 3: Tigers were launching balls out of the park. A J.
26:33
Speaker 3: Hinch said, Nido should get a little bit of credit
26:36
Speaker 3: for that, and then obviously a lot of responsibility now
26:40
Speaker 3: will fall on Dylan Dingler.
26:43
Speaker 1: Which brings us to our fan Dual Sports Network player spotlight,
26:48
Speaker 1: and it is Dylan Dingler. This was going to be
26:51
Speaker 1: the case prior to him have himself a nice day
26:54
Speaker 1: to day because it's his It's not gonna play every day, obviously,
26:59
Speaker 1: but it's his pitching st now like he is, he
27:01
Speaker 1: is the head of the backstop committee. And the fact
27:05
Speaker 1: that I know you kind of AJ I thought didn't
27:10
Speaker 1: act with job kind of downplay. It's not like he's
27:12
Speaker 1: never caught schooble, but first time catching school ball in
27:14
Speaker 1: a game and then having to find out, like you said,
27:17
Speaker 1: Cody about an hour before, AJ said, like he was
27:20
Speaker 1: already in the meeting room with fat and going over
27:22
Speaker 1: everything and so all those kind of little things that
27:25
Speaker 1: you like to hear about Dingler. A reminder, this guy
27:28
Speaker 1: is a like he's an athletic. He was an athletic prospect.
27:33
Speaker 1: Now he's just an athletic major league catcher. And you
27:37
Speaker 1: know he's got two home runs already. It took him
27:40
Speaker 1: a while to kind of get going. I thought a
27:42
Speaker 1: little bit last year, understandably so, but this is this
27:46
Speaker 1: is a guy that I think if you've been following
27:49
Speaker 1: the Miners' rebuilds for a long time and kind of
27:52
Speaker 1: waiting to see what you got out of Dingler. We
27:55
Speaker 1: obviously still don't know the full extent, but Dylan Dingler
27:58
Speaker 1: is a guy that I feel pretty comfortable about giving
28:02
Speaker 1: this opportunity. I'll phrase it like that, feel pretty comfortable.
28:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one reason that Tigers are off to
28:07
Speaker 3: a nice start to the season, given the injuries We've
28:09
Speaker 3: talked about some of the players we entered the year
28:13
Speaker 3: with questions, Dylan Dingler, Trey Sweeney, Zach McKinstry. These guys
28:19
Speaker 3: have played well. And then Haave Baias has played pretty
28:22
Speaker 3: well in kind of his new role as well. So
28:25
Speaker 3: Dingler has been a big part of this. He's producing
28:27
Speaker 3: at the plate. He looks more than comfortable defensively a
28:31
Speaker 3: j Hinshe's the word Lions share for the playing time
28:34
Speaker 3: he may it until Jake Rodgers returns, So I don't
28:37
Speaker 3: think it's going to be a fifty to fifty split
28:39
Speaker 3: with Nido. And then, yeah, there's some allusion to Dingler
28:43
Speaker 3: behind the scenes. This is obviously a smart guy. He's
28:46
Speaker 3: a catcher. There is a pretty intense dude too. Now
28:48
Speaker 3: he's I hope he ups his quote game a little bit.
28:51
Speaker 3: For a catcher, he's not near as colorful as Jake Rodgers.
28:55
Speaker 3: But when you see Dylan Man, he's usually working on something.
28:58
Speaker 3: He's usually got his head in the buy ind game planning,
29:00
Speaker 3: or he's got a bat in his hands, or he's
29:03
Speaker 3: you know, he I think he takes his craft very seriously,
29:06
Speaker 3: a little bit more of a serious, stoic persona, and
29:09
Speaker 3: you can see why he's probably able to remain calm
29:12
Speaker 3: and help a pitcher remain calm in some big in
29:14
Speaker 3: game situations.
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29:38
Speaker 1: up here with some off the field news. We we
29:42
Speaker 1: talked about Sam Mensen resigning. You had broke that news
29:47
Speaker 1: on the All the Days Run Together. Was that Monday,
29:50
Speaker 1: it was that Sunday, I think Thursday.
29:53
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't even put any days together.
29:56
Speaker 1: But since then, you have reported, along with your colleague
29:59
Speaker 1: Britt Girl, about the nature of the alleged misconduct that
30:04
Speaker 1: led to this situation where sam Mensen is no longer
30:07
Speaker 1: employed by the Tigers. So I know there's a lot
30:11
Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of stuff with this, and
30:13
Speaker 1: it's a very serious nature. But what can you kind
30:15
Speaker 1: of share with our listeners.
30:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, do the sensitivity of this and kind of the
30:21
Speaker 3: legal sensitivities around publishing a story. I'm gonna have to
30:24
Speaker 3: keep this one pretty straightforward. But we promptly learned the
30:29
Speaker 3: reason behind sam Mensen's resignation, which was only a week
30:32
Speaker 3: end of the season. Seemed a little bit odd from
30:34
Speaker 3: the start. After making some calls and having some people
30:38
Speaker 3: step forward with information, which is deeply appreciated in my opinion,
30:42
Speaker 3: important we learned Minzen was under investigation from the Tigers
30:46
Speaker 3: HR department. This investigation was related to his conduct toward
30:51
Speaker 3: women in the workplace. Between Britt and I, we spoke
30:55
Speaker 3: with three women who alleged they received unsolicited lewd photos
31:00
Speaker 3: from men'sen and it turns out the Tigers were prepared
31:05
Speaker 3: to fire him as a result of this investigation. He
31:08
Speaker 3: resigned before he could be fired. So there are some
31:12
Speaker 3: more details from that story in the Athletic. I hope
31:16
Speaker 3: you guys will check it out. I hope you guys
31:18
Speaker 3: will consider you know, you know that things like this
31:22
Speaker 3: are important. Obviously, this behavior has no place in any
31:26
Speaker 3: working environment.
31:29
Speaker 2: I agree, don't not much to add. I encourage everybody
31:32
Speaker 2: to go read the story.
31:34
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of work goes into doing something like that,
31:38
Speaker 1: and and I agree that no place, no place in
31:41
Speaker 1: any workplace, no place in society for that kind of behavior. Okay, well,
31:47
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to have to end the episode on on
31:50
Speaker 1: such a serious Now, we try to keep a light here,
31:52
Speaker 1: but that was that was That was a serious, serious topic,
31:55
Speaker 1: and it merited discussion. Cody and I want to commend
31:59
Speaker 1: you and for the work that you guys did there.
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32:24
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