Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. You start telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the Nats. Hey, what's going on? Glad you're with us here on Exis in Bros. Throughout the great state of Michigan. We're with you Monday through Friday, six
until nine. The Meyer hotline is open for you eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three, and you could text the program Sports Radio to twenty one thousand. It was an afternoon affair yesterday for the Tigers, and the Marlins shut them out again to nothing. So the Tigers haven't scored in the last nineteen innings. Brian dal Lacruz's first inning to run homer able to stand up for a Miami team that is not good. They're just they're
one of the worst teams in baseball, at least so far. How long this lasts, I don't know. All we can do is judge teams and leagues and players to the point of which we've seen them. And Miami has thirteen wins on the year. That is the fewest in Major League Baseball, fewer than the Chicago White Sox. Folks one fewer than the Chicago White Sox. Miami and Chicago have the worst run differential in all of baseball, that minus eighty seven runs. And you might be rolling your eyes right now,
because, man, why do you always bring this up? Check? I bring it up because it's really important. That is a really important statistic in all the world of baseball, where we get wrapped up in certain numbers, that is really a vital number. Go back through history and look at it. You know why Atlanta was so good last year? You know why the Dodgers were so good last year. There's a lot of reasons, but one is they could outscore their opposition. That's the name of the game, right,
you just heard HERM Edwards. That's the name of the game. The name of the game is to win the game. Well, Atlanta was a plus two hundred and thirty one and run differentially a year ago. Texas was a plus one sixty five or one eighty five. Excuse me. Those two teams were the gold standard a year go in their respective leagues. Baltimore was up there too for the American League, but they two had a really high
run differential. They were at one twenty nine. Tampa won the division the American League East last year ninety nine wins, one ninety five, a plus one ninety five. You don't think it's important, Okay, Minnesota won the Central Division. They were the only team with a plus run differential. The Tigers were a minus seventy nine. White Sox were a minus two hundred. You know why Oakland stunk last year with just fifty wins. They were a
minus three hundred thirty nine run differential. Sometimes those numbers are tough to comprehend, man, I mean that is incredible. Look at the teams right now. Who's winning, who's struggling. I told you who struggled in the Al Central Chicago White Sex. They're the only team with a minus run differential. You just don't find it very often where a team is going to outperform its lack of offense. I know defense wins championships. I know pitching is really
important, but this is ridiculous. Miami doesn't shut out the Tigers once. They shut them out twice one nothing in two nothing. You may not have felt two nights ago that they had a lot of scoring opportunities. They didn't yesterday they did. Couldn't take care of business. Casey Mace pitched well enough to win. He made a mistake, came in the first inning, came in the second hitter. He went six innings, two hit, two run, ball, struck out six sixty one of his eighty nine pitches or whatever
it were, strikes ninety pitches. He retired eleven in a row, one point eighteen in the last nineteen. That's good enough. You can't expect your pitcher to go out there and be perfect just not realistic. Detroit's one through six hitters, We're two for eighteen. This team left ten men on base, they advanced a runner in scoring position just twice, and they lose the
series. Was it possible? Anything in baseball is? But Trevor Rodgers had an ERA of eight point five seven going into the game against Detroit yesterday, yet somehow handled the Tigers offense. So now the Tigers are under five hundred for the first time this year, at twenty one to twenty two. They have now lost four straight series. Remember, this is a team that started what six to zero, and everyone was like, hey, don't it's a
fun team to watch. This is why you we think they've turned the corner. So on and so forth. How do you feel now you lose four straight series, You've lost nine of your last twelve games. You're headed to Arizona, which initially would make you go, Okay, that's not terrible, that's doable. Arizona's won seven of ten. They're under five hundred, but they've won seven of ten and they have a plus in the run differential. And I know what you're hoping for, so am I you want to turn
it around? So on and so forth. How do you do it? You get the day off, so you're traveling to Arizona and you're going somebody please save us. Oh it's Terrek Schooble. Thank goodness, he's going to make the start. He gets the nodding Game one against Ryan Nelson. No question who the better pitcher is is Trek Scuble. It's just you want to rely on the one guy. You know what, You're still gonna have to score a damn run or two because you haven't been able to do it for
the last two games against a bad Miami team. And I try to keep this in perspective, knowing in baseball that things fluctuate and change so quickly. I understand that it's how you play. I don't want to sound like Current Edwards here. It's how you play the game though, and played well. That's very simple, isn't it. But it's also very true. Can't canntinue this way otherwise we are going to be having a miserable summer. I'll reiterate
this, and I'll say it on a pretty regular basis. Expectations have to be higher. Expectations for this team have to be higher. Absolutely no reason they should be under five hundred. Right now, they may come back from the road trip playing much better baseball, and we won't even think about this right now. But at some point this year we're going to look back like we did during the Red Wings and say, oh my god, how'd you lose to the Coyotes two straight games. We're gonna say the same thing about
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the hour at wut you on extras and Bros. Matt Shephard, would you manage our producer? You can reach him by going to the Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. You could text the program Sports Radio twenty one thousand, Tiger's a loser yesterday to nothing to the Marlins shut out yet again, their offense rearing its ugly head again in a negative way, and the statistics continue to jump out at you and just how bad
this team truly is offensively? Right now? I keep saying right now because I really want this team to turn it around. I'm so hopeful, but I'm looking at it, and the more I see it, I think you probably see it too. The more you see it, the more you think this is not happening because we've given them. We've given this team a lot of room here, a ton of room, and we're just not seeing it. Can this team drastically change? There could be there could be a little
bit of a margin for air here. I'll give you an example. All right, let's try and be let's try to be positive here for a second with this situation. Do you think the Toronto Blue Jays have a potent offense? Yes? So do I so do. Why it's a team I think with a ton of offensive talent. Vladimir Guerrero Junior bo Bishett, George Springer, Dalton Varshow. They added Justin Turner in the offseason, along with Isaiah Kiner, Falefa Sure, Kevin Kiermeyer. They're scoring fewer runs than the Tigers.
The Toronto Blue Jays have scored fewer runs in more games, I might add, than the Detroit Tigers. Now, keep in mind, it's a Toronto team last year known for its offense. Last year, that Toronto club was a little bit below league average, but scored a hell of a lot more runs than Detroit did. This is becoming a little bit of a pattern. What about Seattle? Do you think Seattle is a good baseball team? I know we don't follow them every day. They lead the West. They're
twenty four and twenty. They've scored fewer runs than the Tigers. Again, I'm trying to I'm trying to be positive here for us. I'm trying to give us a reason to believe. And after yesterday, actually they've scored the same number of runs as the Tigers. But it's a dangerous situation for Detroit in the sense that we have seen this become more of commonplace than not. Remember, this is a Tigers team. That scored the second fewest runs in
all of bass players last year. The only team who scored fewer runs than Detroit last season with the Oakland Athletics, they scored five hundred and eighty five runs. Detroit scored six hundred and sixty one. Actually, Chicago, the White Sox, I apologize, the White Socks scored fewer runs too. So only the A's and the Athletics scored fewer runs than Detroit. Is it a pattern? It's troubling. Two years ago Detroit was you know, the league
average is about six hundred and ninety four runs. This is in twenty twenty two. Nothing great about the Tigers' efforts there either. It's a problem. This team is not gifted offensively. So we've seen it for a few years in a row now where you're like shaking your head, relying solely on your pitching and it's constant. Hey, we're going to talk with Colton Pouncey of
the Athletic at eight thirty five. Looking forward to that for sure. We'll talk about the Lions schedule, We'll talk about the golf extension and more in the NFL. There are when you see the release of the schedule and it's pretty creative. Man. I don't know if you folks saw this much, but a number of different teams social media events kind of expressed how this team was going to celebrate the release of its schedule. And it's pretty creative.
It was really good. If you saw any on social media, let us know. Tell us which one you think was the best and how you thought the Lions did. Because the Lions had a couple of comedians showcasing theirs, we'll get to that coming up here. Former Tiger Willie Castro had an embarrassing moment last night. Did you see this? Willie Castro plays for the Minnesota Twins. He's actually been a really good find for them. He's played well for them. He's not gonna be an All Star. He's a firstatile player.
He could play a number of different positions. He could play second, he could play short, he could play third, he could play any outfield spot. He was playing center field for them yesterday in the game against New York Yankees won at one for nothing. They were up one nothing with a man on third when a fly ball was hit to center field. Willie Castro thought there were two outs when he grabbed it. He thought he made the
third out, nonchalantly starts jogging into the infield. I think it was Anthony Volpi at third base. He breaks for home and scores easily to make it too nothing New York, and it's an embarrassing moment for Willy Castro. I saw that highlight and I thought to myself, there are scoreboards and ribbon boards. You know what the ribbon board is right around a stadium. There are scoreboards in so many different spots of the ballpark. Obviously it's in centerfield or
left center field. It's tough for a center fielder to look at that unless you're absolutely turning around. But to his right there's a ribbon board, and to his left there is a ribbon board. They're in Minnesota. It's not hard to locate, so it's easy. As a quarterback walking on the line of scrimmage and seeing the play clock. After every out, most players signify and scream how many outs there are? Willie Castro was in a daze.
I suppose he screwed some things up pretty bad right there. NBA last night Boston ns Cleveland season with a one thirteen to ninety eight game five win. They are into the Eastern Conference for a third straight year and a six time in the last eight years. You want your best players to elevate their games at the biggest moments. It's such a cliche, but it's so true.
Jason Tatum did twenty five points, ten boards, nine a SIS, But I'm going to give you probably a bigger reason why they won that game, and it comes from a wiley veteran. We'll get to that. We'll get to the Dallas OKC game, We'll get to the Loan hockey game last night, and of course we will get to the Lions' schedule release and we will talk about that with Colton Pouncey of the Athletic He will join us at eight thirty five. We'll get your thoughts on it when we return here on XS
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the mindset, like you said coming into tonight, just hard mentality. We know the last game we played against them at home, we let it go. You know, it was our mistakes and they hit shots. So our mentality is just in the playoffs. It's first to four, so you gotta win for before they do, so you gotta go game by game. He couldn't do it with all my teammates. You know, everybody that came on the floor, give one hundred percent energy, and we play as the team.
We win as a team, we lose as a team. And this team is special. Man. We've only been too better for what five months? And you know, I'll be having a lot of fun with this team. That's Luca Jogs Following the Mavericks win in Oklahoma City, A little surprised at this series, I thought, Okay, see, I mean, they are one of the younger teams in the NBA, but I really thought that's a team that would take care of business because I was unimpressed with Dallas's defense.
But give credit where credit is due. The Mavericks hold Okay Seed to ninety two points. That's the fewest points they've scored all year. Dallas shoots fifty two and a half percent. Doncic leads the way thirty one points, ten boards, eleven assists, seventh time he's had a thirty point triple double. They win at one O four to ninety two. Dallas is up three
games to two. Charles Barkley as much as anybody else needs Okac to come back, because last night, while they were talking post game of the Boston Celtics win, you heard Draymond Green kind of downplaying Boston's ability to win three straight or reach the Eastern Conference Finals three straight years in six out of last eight years. He downplayed it. And Charles Barkley when they had Jason Tatum on Green had talked about the Knicks and talked about either Dallas or Denver coming
out of the West. Jason Tatum wouldn't bite. Charles Barkley said, you're wrong, because Okase he's going to beat Dallas. Well, now they go back to Dallas and the Mavericks are up three games to two. Can they finish off? Jay Gilgis, Alexander chet Holmgram company. We'll soon find out. But the Boston win saw Al Horford, at age thirty seven, in his one hundred seventy seventh career playoff game, score twenty two points and grab
fifteen rebounds. At his age thirty seven, he's the oldest player to ever have fifteen points or more, five or more triples in a playoff game and have double digit rebounds and he had six threes. Overall, really impressive win. NHL last night, Colorado up ended Dallas five to three. Been a high scoring series. The Avs score three times in the third and have pulled and keep their playoff hopes alive or keep their Stanley Cup Championship hopes alive,
because that was an eliminigation game for them. They're down three to two in the series. Game six is in Denver. Nathan McKinnon, Artury Li Likenan each had a goal in an assist, and Cale mccarr, one of the best defensemen in the world, had two goals. The PGA Championship begins today at Valhalla. Scotti Scheffler is the favorite. Rory McElroy and Brooks Koepka right there in the mix. Lion's schedule has been released. The NFL schedule has
been released. The Lions I told you yesterday, I said this team is going to be on national TV quite a bit. They're on national TV six times. That includes the Thanksgiving Day game against Chicago six times. They've got the eleventh toughest schedule in the league. Here are the national games they are going to be on. Matthew Stafford and the Rams visit Ford Field on opening night September eighth, Sunday Night football. They're going to play Seattle on Monday
Night Football September thirtieth at home. This is kind of the beauty. The beauty is that Detroit is getting a number of games at home on the national stage. That's pretty cool, man, It really is because of how loud Ford Field gets and the passion that you folks show all that stuff. Love it. So there's two of them. They're at Houston week nineteen Sunday Night Football. They got a Thursday night game December fifth against Green Bay, so
another Thursday Night football. December thirtieth is a Monday night football tilt at San Francisco in a rematch of the NFC title game. So those five, in addition to Thanksgiving Day national TV six times. You want to showcase your brand, showcase your talent, and in a lot of situations, here showcase the city of Detroit. Here's your chance. Not that it has to be proven, Don't get me wrong. It doesn't have to be proven. We already
know that there's a reason they want to be in Detroit. But you get Sunday Night football twice you get Monday Night football twice, you get Thursday Night football once and a Thursday day game tradition on Thanksgiving Day. Absolutely love it. I am not I said this yesterday. I'm not going to break down what their winning record is going to be. Writers have to do that. Unfortunately for them. Writers have to go about Okay, now the prediction game
begins. Like we had Dave Brikett on not too long ago, the Detroit Free Press does an outstanding job. We're gonna have Colton Pouncy of the Athletic on at eight thirty five, but he had to go out and predict, you know, an eleven and six record. Why Well, because they're editors. We gotta find we gotta fill space. Writers don't like doing that stuff. They don't want to be married to that because they understand all the stuff
that's going on with it. But that's just the way it works. There are some very interesting matchups, very interesting matchups in terms of playing against one another for specific reasons. Specific matchups is what I'm looking at. For example, you've got the Steve it the Falcons opening week. Most people think, what's the big deal there? The big deal there is that's it's in all likelihood, Russell Wilson the starter for Pittsburgh, Kirk Cousin, the Steeler of
the Falcons starter. Those two clashed in the twenty eleven Big Ten Championship game while Russell Wilson was at Wisconsin, and of course Kirk Cousins with Michigan State. That's kind of fun. I'll give you another one. Week twelve, that's when Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh match wits. I know you're probably rolling your eyes a little bit and you're thinking to yourself, this gets really old.
It's going to be in Baltimore, it's going to be a nationally televised game, and it's going to be what Jim Harbaugh hopes to be the first time he beats his brother John, who has won the previous two meetings. If you don't think that matters, you're crazy. It absolutely matters. So that kind of jumped out at me. Speaking of Kirk Cousins, Week fourteen, he goes back to play Minnesota. How long do this stuff lasts? Like? Do we ever would we make a big deal if Kirk Cousins played
Washington, considering that was his first team. Probably not. We've gotten pass past that right, Like Saquon Barkley is now with Philadelphia, Folks, they're going to play the Giants twice a year. I don't know how long Saquon Barkley is going to be in Philadelphia, but at least this next season he's gonna play the Giants twice because they're within the division. They're gonna play Week seven. Is that a big deal? I don't know. Not when you're
seeing it twice. It probably will be when he goes back to New York. Russell Wilson playing in Denver against Sean Payton. Yeah, that's probably a pretty big deal Super Bowl rematch. You love this stuff. Right Week seven, it's Kansas City at San Francisco. Stefan Diggs really good player for Buffalo for a long time. Put up a ton of highlight reel grabs, had
a great on field chemistry with Josh Allen. Do we think about Stefan Diggs going back to play against Minnesota. No, but we do think about him playing his old team Buffalo because Stefan Diggs is now in Houston and that'll take place Week five, So that is an interesting little tidbit for those two teams. That'll be kind of fun. To me, like I was looking through
the schedule. Oh, I noticed Derek Carr, who quarterbacks in New Orleans, used to be for the Raiders. The Raiders are playing at New Orleans a week seventeen. I don't think that's a big deal. That's just my opinion. Who cares? Does it matter to you that Aaron Rodgers is going to get his first game back? Not really. I'm sure people will make a big deal out of it, but to me, not really. But
some of the highlights that I just gave I think are pretty interesting. So you can follow along with that Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty eight forty three. The text line is sports Radio to twenty one thousand. I know what matters to you more than anything else is the Lions schedule. What do you think of the Lions schedule? They're gonna take on the Rams at home, Tampa at home. First road game is Week three at Arizona.
Then you get Seattle at home on a Monday night kick, So three of the first four at home and the road game based on last year's statistics, very wittable. Then you get the bye week. In a perfect world, your bye week comes in week seven or eight. When Dan Campbell and others are asked after the game against Seattle during the week of week five, hey, your bye week is taking place? Is it too early? They will say no, not really, this is good. They're never going to
admit that, right, But that's when the bye week comes. It'll give them two weeks to prepare for Dallas in Dallas, and we all know what happened a year ago. So out of that bye week they get at Dallas and at Minnesota, back to back road games against two teams, two pretty good teams. Right, Dallas is better than Minnesota, you would think going in, but two good teams have to be careful. Then a home game
against Tennessee road game at Green Bay, road game at Houston. That defense will be tested by C. J. Stroud and company and Stefan Diggs and others. Then it's a home game against Jacksonville, a road game at the Colts home to Chicago, that's Thanksgiving home to Green Bay, Thursday night game home to Buffalo. Defense will be challenged against the Bills offense at Chicago at Frisco on Monday night, and Minnesota at home. That is kind of like
almost like a flex game. The date is yet to be determined. The NFL would like to use their power of being able to flex games and do all that stuff by scheduling Detroit Minnesota for a certain situation, certain night right which game excites you. We don't know yet. I don't expect you to know that, because I think with this schedule it gives you a lot of pregame storylines. Stafford and the Rams is obvious, and it's a rematch of
the playoffs. Tampa a rematch of the playoffs, Seattle the team that beat them at home a year ago in their first home game, Dallas and the controversy that ensued there. Green Bay is always special. Houston gives you a really good idea of a young team that is on the rise in a Houston club that's going to test your defense. Chicago with Caleb Williams at the helm, Buffalo kind of a standard in the AFC with Josh Allen under center,
and of course San Francisco with the rematch there. There's a lot of storylines, a lot of good stuff on this Lions schedule. We'll talk more about it with Colton Pouncey of the athletic There is a bit of a disturbing situation in the NBA that you have complained about before, and it's starting to creep in into another sport, and I can't figure out why. I guess I guess I could figure it and understand it a little bit more in this sport
than I could in the NBA. It's called load management. How many times have we talked about this where people are starting to look I think when it first started, probably Greg Popovich and San Antonio made it most popular with the Tim Duncan era trying to rest his guys because they had deep NBA playoff series. So I think a lot of people were a little understanding, you know what, he wants to rest Manu Ginobili at age thirty six. I get
it, he wants to rest Tony Parker. I understand that Tim Duncan deserves a night off on a tail end of a back to back. I get it. It's starting to creep into another sport. Sports used to be about well, pride in being out there and available every single day. I've got a theory on why it is taking place. It's not going to happen in football. They rest players at the end if they've already got a playoff spot or if they have a division title wrapped up, they can do that because
you know they generally go to at certain positions, maybe three deep. But it's still hard to just play your backups and put your starters in street clothes because you only have what forty eight dressed on game day and you got to play twenty two. But this sport, it used to be a prideful thing to be available every day, and apparently it is moving away from that. We'll get to that when we come back on Exis and Bros. After this
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