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00:00I didn't find myself angry.
00:03I wanted them to win. I believed they were going to win.
00:04I certainly didn't think Scuba was going to give up a grand slam.
00:07That wasn't on my bingo card.
00:09I'm proud of this team.
00:11As I look back on this season, I'm proud that this team fought and scratched and clawed
00:15and gave us a taste. Gave us a baseball team to believe in again.
00:19No question that you're proud of this team.
00:22And the fact that
00:25they
00:26accomplished so much. They overachieved.
00:30They did something that's only happened once in the history of baseball.
00:34Coming back from where they were. In the depths.
00:38So far behind.
00:40With so little time left.
00:42And we laughed
00:44when Tom brought up, and Tom, I don't remember the exact numbers, but they were
00:48going to have to go
00:5033 and 11 is what they went.
00:54And it was
00:5535 and 11 or something like that.
00:58That we had mentioned at the.
01:00It was
01:01we speculated like August 27th, that they would need to go 33 and 11 to get to 88 wins.
01:06And then we said
01:0786 or 87 may do it.
01:10And we all laughed.
01:11And then they went 31 and 11 and got the 86 wins and then called off the dogs and
01:14clinched.
01:15I mean, it was
01:16we brought up the math and we just said the math
01:19is
01:20you're asking for a miracle.
01:21Well, you're asking for a miracle because it wasn't just what the Tigers had to do,
01:25but you needed to continue to have a Minnesota Twins collapse.
01:29Yep.
01:29Both had to happen at the same time and they did
01:32and they gave us
01:34so much to cheer about
01:37and so many moments
01:38where it's where were you?
01:40What were you doing
01:42when Kerry Carpenter hit the home run?
01:45And and it's it
01:47memories like that happened both good and bad.
01:50Jim, what were you doing when Tarek Skubel gave up the Grand Slam?
01:54Sweating through every pore in my body because the bases were loaded and he had
01:57already hit Jose Ramirez.
01:58I mean, that's the feeling but what were you doing?
02:00I was on the couch.
02:01Yeah, and so that that's it's kind of one of those moments where I was listening
02:04to Dan Dickerson.
02:05I was painting the front of my house
02:07and I'm up on a 20-foot ladder
02:10and all of a sudden Skubel gives up a Grand Slam and I'm it was like
02:14my body just it was inaudible
02:17and a visual sigh of
02:20disbelief.
02:21I mean my instant reaction is that that's all like it's over now.
02:24They they've still fought true to this team.
02:26They still scratched across across a couple more runs in the game.
02:29But like you're not recovering from
02:32your best pitcher your one anchor
02:34giving up a home run that scores four runs
02:38and it really showed that this team had no margin for error.
02:40I mean the way they did this was on the thinnest
02:44of balance beams.
02:45So they had no margin for error couldn't step off up
02:48pitch gets hung over the heart of the plate and it's over.
02:51I mean, there's a bloop infield single in that inning.
02:53Their margin was so thin
02:56and we didn't think it was possible with Skubel on the mound
02:59and I'm sure we'll take a bunch of calls
03:02and about how
03:04you know, maybe we were the jinx.
03:06Sure.
03:06I know you're taking some bullets on that one.
03:08That's fine.
03:08I'm coming to the territory.
03:10I'm fine for those to zing right past me even though I was right along with you
03:14but
03:15it we were wrong.
03:17I was wrong.
03:18I thought I didn't think that they were going to lose two in a row.
03:21I didn't they could lose that second one in Detroit.
03:23All right, that's fine.
03:24But you got a two-two tie and you're going to Cleveland with Skubel on the mound.
03:28That's why
03:29I will never forget the moment when Skubel gave up the Grand Slam and it's
03:34it's Skubel had an amazing season.
03:37He's going to be the Cy Young Award winner and he had 13 scoreless innings
03:42before he even took the mound in Cleveland for the second time.
03:46He was phenomenal.
03:49And I just didn't see that
03:52as
03:52it was unwavering the faith that I had in him
03:55and still have in him.
03:56Yeah, and they had earned a level of trust
04:00maybe a level of
04:01confidence
04:03because they've been the best team in baseball baseball for two months.
04:06And I didn't think that Skubel of all people would be the guy giving up a
04:10Grand Slam in the do-or-die elimination game.
04:12So hey, listen, what we're going to do is we're going to speak our mind
04:16say what's on our mind.
04:17We thought they'd win.
04:18They didn't win.
04:20And I don't know what your overall feeling was
04:23when that game ended, but you can let us know 248-539-9797.
04:27How did you feel when it was finally over this magical run that ended in
04:30Cleveland?