Sipping Bourbon & Talking Baseball: Trivia Time with Big E and Ronnie

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Welcome to the big show. You got the Big E and Ronnie show coming at you. I am, of course, Big E.
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I'm Ronnie. We got Ronnie here. You know, we were just hanging out today.
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Today was not necessarily going to be a recording day. No.
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But pack up all the gear just in case.
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And, you know, it's so hard to, you know, find the time.
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They're like, once we chilled, we had something to eat. We watched the game.
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Lit some cigars. We've got a Goose Island Bourbon County Stout brand reserve.
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Yep, this is barreled, or aged in like four barrels.
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2022, it was 36% Bookers, 33% Knob Creek, 17% Basil Hayden, and 14% Bakers.
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So it's aged in the Jim Beam small batch barrels, which is pretty cool.
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It's not it's not cheap no it's not cheap
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this is the one that comes in the box too on top of that
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with a little neck tag no i've been sitting
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on this for two years now two years it's got
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a great flavor actually i've been sitting on it only for a
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year i think when i got it a year ago
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yeah it was already a year old well you
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had picked one up a couple years ago and you
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had given it or traded it or somehow i ended up
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with one yeah that i know you had picked up but bourbon
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county brand stout still a lot of fun they still do the uh
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thanksgiving yeah uh black friday release i
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didn't do any this year no i feel like i knew i had two i was sitting on yeah
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well they don't need to get out of don't need to get out of your nice warm bed
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go hunting for something you already have no thanks got that right we only do
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that with baseball cards and cigars and bourbon and and Sometimes a beer,
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right?
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So we thought, you know, once we had kind of chilled for a while and it's like,
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ah, who knows? We got some weather coming up.
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Like maybe we should just get out the equipment and do something a little different.
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You know, we've talked about doing like bonus episodes and things like that.
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But for the most part, we've just been churning out our usual content.
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Well, I thought it might be fun for Ronnie to look up some Detroit Tigers trivia and
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and i'll see if i can answer it i really don't
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know you know as much as what he thinks that's what
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i'm afraid of you know and i'm of
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course dummy though of course i'm coming like hat
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in hand hopefully i blow everybody away but
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with any kind of trivia it's funny like there are times like
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i'll watch jeopardy with big with have watched jeopardy
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with friends in ages you know sometimes you
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do you're sitting there watching jeopardy and you're just knocking it
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out of the park and people are like holy cow like you're a genius and then the
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next night you literally get none of the questions like not even the 200 questions
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and it's like people just you know what you know and it's there's nothing like
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a game of trivia to like you know make you figure out.
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You know what you know or you don't know like a lot of people don't know something
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as simple and easy as like oh the tigers won the world series in 1984 so you
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get that answer right and people are like, oh, ah, he knows something.
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But you can ask 10,000 questions about the 1984 World Series or year,
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and I might not know those things.
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So I'm a little nervous, and I'm going to try, even on the ones where I know
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the answer, I'm going to try to not be so excited. I'll try to give some time
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so that the listeners can play along as well.
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So Ronnie's going to grab his phone. He is going to look up some Detroit Tigers
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trivia for us, and I'm going to see if I can.
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And please, of course, obviously, I hope this appeals to some of you.
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I hope there are people out there who are excited to show off their Detroit
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Tigers knowledge. Of course, you can brag about beating Big E if you are able to.
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And let's see what happens if you're not a huge fan you know we're gonna keep
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it entertaining so even if you don't care about the trivia stick around see
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what happens see how much fun we have,
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you ready to go we'll find out all right
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i'm gonna do these in order i'm not gonna skip around it's easy just
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for me to do them in order because you don't know the order
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i don't i don't know the orders i'm going all
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right i'm robin let's do it in one year did
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harvey kuhn win the rookie of the award okay so i know that harvey kuhn's rookie
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card is 1954 but back then it was even like today like luis gill just won the
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rookie of the year but his rookie cards are 2023 not 2024.
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I'm gonna say i'm gonna
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say 1954 1953
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so i should have gone back a year
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i'd tie it anyway all right that's close
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you don't get points almost only counts in horseshoes and
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hand grenades but i feel okay about that what's
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the andy dwarf saying about what is he saying
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about that i can't think of it off the
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top of my head like something about i think or
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like i know he gets yes exactly
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you're completely wrong like michael scott's of course i wish i could remember
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it's funny every time i hear it yep i laugh all right number two okay this isn't
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easy you can't say that because when you're looking at it things seem easy but
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when you're sitting no this is without no stop it.
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Can't give it to him.
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In 2012, what time you hit for a 330 batting average?
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Why do you say that that's easy? It's not exactly easy. To my point,
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like, I think it's Megalio.
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So that's my guess. Is it Miguel Cabrera? It is.
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That's the thing. Everybody wants to sit here and say, yeah,
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but once you see the answer, you know everything.
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Every question that's in your head. I think it's triple-counier. Sure.
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It doesn't feel like it was that long ago. And you feel like easy.
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Like I said, I'm not going to hear it from you. What do you think?
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Because 330, 42, or not 42, like 37 and 144 RBI.
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No, I don't remember. I remember the Triple Crown, obviously.
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But yeah, I mean, again, people who are good at trivia are calm.
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They're good under pressure.
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You know, these aren't necessarily my strong suits. Okay.
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Fair enough. But, you know, I do have it too.
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I remember watching, I was watching the mom from, she played the mom on everybody.
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Loves Raymond and she was doing what I just did where
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she was so like upset about someone
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like referring to something as being easy that she
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missed an actual easy question and I was so mad at her I was like shut up quit
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making excuses but that's what I just did right if you had said it was easy
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and I would have taken half a minute and caught gotten my composure of course
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it is easy But it's scary not having the information in front of you.
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So let's go. I got to focus up. All right. I'm off to a terrible start here.
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The Detroit Tigers began playing baseball in the American League in what year?
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1901. Correct. Oh, baby. I'm off the schneid. Detroit was one of eight original
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charter American League cities. The other cities were.
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Oh, I bet I don't know this. This is not part of the question,
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but it's a good trivia. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm going to say, I'm going to say New York.
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You have to give me yes or no as I go. Okay, no. Then I'm already wrong.
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I don't want to go through the rest.
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Okay, it's Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee,
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Philadelphia, and Washington. Okay.
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I probably would have gotten about half. You know.
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How many World Series did the Tigers win in the 20th century? In the 20th century?
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That's a weird way of phrasing it. I know.
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I don't like that. because they won all
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of their world series in the same
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century exactly so four yes yeah all
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right it's a tricky question because like
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if you if right you don't know you would
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think yeah good deal
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good deal denny mcclain won 31 games how
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many losses did he have oh boy i was in
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1968 year of the pitcher he had
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31 wins bob gibson had a
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1.12 era and it was the the result of those two and a couple other people they
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lowered the mound after that year because they needed to take the advantage
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away from the pitcher i believe he had 7 losses 6.
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McClain were the first to win 30 games in the season since Dizzy Dean on St.
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Louis in 1934 I could have told you that too The American League Detroit franchise
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began in 1901 What was their team name in 1901 I think it was the Wolverines,
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The answer is the Tigers Is it?
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Okay That's a little bit tricky but I should have known it. Well,
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let me read the description.
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The Tigers were one of the very few teams that did not go through a name change,
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for the first 100 years in Major League Baseball.
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Under manager George Starling, the team finished third in AL with 74-61 record,
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only eight and a half games back of the pennant-winning white size.
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That's about it. Yeah, I do think that there were Detroit teams with other names,
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But I also should have known that because it's specified starting in 1901.
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And I did know that, you know, they've always been the Tigers.
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But again, it's scary on this side of the, I got to lock in though.
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Because even close again, close is not good enough. I need to start getting some right.
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And if you need me to clarify this question, let me know.
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All right, all right. I can clarify it because I'm reading it.
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I wouldn't know if you were to ask me.
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Which second sacker wore jersey number two during the 1929 season.
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Charlie Garinger. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I didn't know if the second soccer was.
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Oh, yeah, that's old-timey speech. It is his old-timey.
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I just, it went through me for a little bit of you, whatever, told me that.
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Charlie Garinger is so underrated, and that's, again, part of what works against
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Lou Whitaker, is that Lou Whitaker is like the sixth best second baseman who
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ever played, maybe ninth.
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But Charlie Garinger, it was better than him. Yep.
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Not by a mile, but better than him, and he didn't get a lot of love.
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However, when he was playing, Babe Ruth said that Charlie Geringer was the best
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player in the American League. And he probably was.
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Number eight, what was the catchphrase of the 1984 Detroit Tigers?
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Bless you boys. Yes. I had the 68 one, so I'm not going to say it in case it comes up. Right.
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But the 68 one was stuck in my head. It took me a minute to get to 84, the year I was born.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. and it wasn't supposed to
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be a good thing either was it that i was born no
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the catchphrase the bless you boys well it's never
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it's such a it's such a southern a
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southern thing like oh bless your heart right it's like oh bless you boys but
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it turned into like a really positive thing right yep what tiger set a team
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record for hitting 58 home runs in a season hank greenberg correct one One of
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the most underrated players of all time,
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Nate Greenberg and Ted Williams are two players who just, they had the absolute
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like meat of their careers was lost to World War II. Right.
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So Ted Williams, you know, was able to do more with his other years,
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which is why he's considered, you know, and he was better, but Hank Greenberg
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lost a huge chunk of his prime, but yeah, 58 home runs.
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And who was number two on that list?
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For the tigers for the tigers so who has the second
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most home runs season cecil fielder no
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yeah cecil fielder with 51 correct okay
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yep i was like whoa i was trying to figure out
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where you're going took me a minute they had a couple other sluggers
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you know in the in the 40s like
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you're i'm not gonna say but there's some other players
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that i i hesitated but yeah Cecil Old Tire Stadium is on the corner of Michigan
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And what avenue See I'm pausing only Because I want You know I panicked after
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I got off to a bad start And so now But I want people to have the chance to answer,
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Trumbull The corner,
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Who was the manager of the Tigers in 1984? George Sparky Anderson.
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We're running. Captain Hook.
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What other teams did he manage? He managed the Reds. Yep.
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The Big Red Machine. It was funny. In 1984, Dick Williams was managing the Padres.
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Sparky Anderson was managing the Tigers. and Sparky had World Series wins with
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the Reds and Dick Williams had World Series wins with Oakland.
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And so no matter who won, was going to be the first manager to have a World Series in both leagues.
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And it ended up being, of course, Sparky Anderson.
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So Sparky Anderson also in the late 1979, he was on WKARP in Cincinnati after the Reds fired him.
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So he was already the manager for the Tigers, but he was on WKRP in Cincinnati,
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which is a great show. And his appearance on that, you can find it on YouTube.
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It's great. Nice. Nice.
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Where was Navin Field? Where was Navin Field? Yeah. Michigan and Trumbull.
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Oh, City. Detroit. Okay. So the Tiger Stadium has been Navin Field,
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Briggs Stadium, and Tiger Stadium.
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Mm-hmm. So it's the exact same location.
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When they opened, I think home plate was in a different location.
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But yeah, Detroit, same spot, same corner.
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Bless you. Excuse me. Yeah. All right. I'm just going to ask you the question.
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I'm just looking for the right answer. That's good. I love it.
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Even though some of these questions seem monotonous and repetitive I like those
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it's helping me catch back up who was the MVP of the 1984 World Series?
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Alan Trammell you know that one of my favorite I went really quick there I'm
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supposed to go slower one of my favorite bits of trivia on the planet is that in 1984 the NLCS,
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and the ALCS.
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MVPs were both Michigan State football players.
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Oh, yeah. So Kirk Gibson was the ALCS MVP for the Tigers.
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Michigan State football player. Steve Garvey was the NLCS MVP for the Padres.
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Michigan State football player. Speaking of Michigan State, did you see that
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Tariq Skrugel was at the Michigan State basketball game?
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I saw that. He's all over the place. He was hanging out with Devin Booker the other day.
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Did you see that picture? I did not see that. Well, there's a picture of Buck and Scooble.
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Yeah, Tarek's just doing his. He's blowing up.
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And he needs to. I mean, his cards especially have not, they don't match the
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talent that he is. I don't have a lot of his cards.
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It'd be nice if it's some of the cool little inserts I do have.
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And we were looking through cards earlier. You've got a couple numbered rookies, I think. Yeah, I do.
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Those are cool. And I'm just torn a little bit Because if his cards didn't peak
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now You're starting to wonder Like are his cards ever going to peak,
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So, you know, you see his, like, numbered autograph as the best pitcher in baseball
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right now in the American League, Cy Young, next to other pitchers,
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rookies, guys who have never won a Cy Young.
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And his autograph number is, like, a quarter of the price.
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But I can't say it's the time to buy because I just don't know that the market ever appears.
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But you're certainly not going to get a bad deal on a Tarek Scrooge right now. No, no, no, no, no.
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But at the same time, it might not be a great deal.
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All right, bring it on. Let's go. Who was the first team to play the Detroit Tigers at the corner?
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I'm going to say Boston. No. Baltimore?
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No. Okay, then I have no idea. The first game was held April 28,
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1886, when Detroit slammed Columbus 17-2.
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Frickin' Columbus. see again the wording and
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the wording matters they didn't do anything wrong but they're like
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who was the first team they played at the corner
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right so it's like like i said they've
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always played at the same location but does that mean the 1901 american league
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detroit tigers apparently not so they got me there all right bennett part yeah
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bennett i didn't even remember bennett when I was listening to Navin Briggs
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and Tiger Stadium, but yes, it was Bennett.
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All right. Which famous Tigers broadcaster once said, Opey Day Troy is an event.
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It's New Year's, Easter, Christmas, all rolled into one unique afternoon.
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Do you know what Ernie Harwell also said? He said, you are a fine young man,
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as he put his arm around my shoulder.
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So the answer, of course, is Ernie Harwell. Ernie Harwell.
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And yeah, I got to meet him. he did in fact
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call me a fine young man the picture i have
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with him is one of my most cherished pictures and
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like literally in the same like
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you know he's signing autographs he
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came out took a picture i mean it was ernie freaking harwell right like
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ichiro when he came to america was
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like i want to meet ernie harwell this guy is a legend and
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then at the time i sort of liked brandon ninge
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and he was at the end of the table on his
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phone didn't even look up like i had a ball i
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wanted him to sign and he just slid his already autographed headshot across
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the table without even looking at me and i just left it there and i never felt
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as good about brandon ninge right uh simpson i don't hate him he does great
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stuff for the university of michigan he was coaching there or was.
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I'm not mad at him. There's some plays, right?
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That was just, you know, when something like Ernie Harwell takes the time to
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do that and the up-and-comer like Brandon, you know, maybe Brandon Inge was
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like, oh, these people don't know me. They don't care.
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But it's a little bit of a sour taste. The funny thing about this question, too.
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So some of these questions are not pulled from the same spot.
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They're pulled from all sorts of different trivia and quiz
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places online cool so this one gave you
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an option on multiple choice all right the first one i ran into that was a multiple
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choice interesting the options would have been as shit i should have read a
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little bit further and gave you that but you know i knew you knew this answer
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i should guess who the other options are how many options does it give it's
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multiple choice out of four out of Four. Yes.
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Does it also list George Kel? Yeah. Okay.
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Does it also list Paul Carey? No. No? Al Kaline? Yes. Okay.
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Dan Dickerson? No. Okay, so who's the one I didn't get? Kirk Gibson.
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Gibby. All right. Love it.
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When Gibby was in the booth with Al Kaline and George Kell, it was the most fun broadcast ever.
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Because George Kell and Al Kaline were unique. Because George Kell went and became a broadcaster.
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He was a Hall of Fame baseball player, but he became the true broadcaster.
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Then Al Kaline filled that color commentary role But they were both so old school
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And then Gibby comes in And he is just the wild hair The,
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you know, say whatever And that combination of those three It was just for If
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it wasn't for a couple years It was for a couple of, you know,
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Groupings over a couple years It was as much fun as you could have Listening
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to a broadcast Alright Yep,
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so this one is multiple choice, too.
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So I'm actually going to- Don't give it to me unless I need it.
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You don't want all four answers? Not if I don't need it. Okay.
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Which Tiger won a batting title with a 360 award batting average? Norm Cash.
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Yes. Ah! And I'm going to say it never hit over 282 in 12 seasons after that.
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Well, so much for me letting the- I'm doing a terrible job of letting the listeners
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play along, but hopefully they're getting a kick out of it.
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Yeah. I knew immediately that Norm Cash won the batting. And it's true.
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He never had another year quite like that.
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He need any other four options. Yeah. Let's see who they would have put out
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there. They probably would have put Al Kayline out there. Yep.
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They probably would have put Alan Trammell out there. Nope. No.
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Oh, cause they, they told us 1961. No.
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Oh, they didn't say 1961. Okay. yeah the
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fact that al k line let's try uh jim northrup nope no
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bill freehand i'll give you one more guess i
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just give it to me that's plenty george cowl cowl of course and harry hillman
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hillman all right yep all right this one's just a standard answer all right
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mark fitteridge was a rookie of the year in 1976 but what other category did
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he lead the mlb in that year well Well,
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he definitely led it in war, but I doubt that's the answer to the question.
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I think it's wins and if it's not wins, it's ERA. So I have to think back.
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Because he actually, so he won Rookie of the Year.
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He came in like fourth in Cy Young and like 10th in MVP.
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But he led the entire American League and National League in war, which is crazy.
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I think it's, I'm going to kick myself either way, but I'm going to say wins.
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Wrong. It's ERM.
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He finished with a 2.34. But he had 19 wins, right?
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It doesn't say. It doesn't say. Yeah, ERA. I should have gone with ERA.
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But if I had gone with ERA, it would have been wins. You know, that's just.
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Which Tigers pitcher won the 2011 MVP?
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Berlander. Correct. That was when I gave the listeners a chance on that one.
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They give you an option, but they're a stupid option. Yeah, screw that.
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We're going to keep going. And I'm done guessing options. All right.
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Which was the only pitcher to ever pitch a perfect game at Tiger Stadium?
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So it wasn't a Tiger, because no Tiger has ever pitched a perfect game.
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Come on, man. Well.
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We've talked about it. We'll go completely. That was like our first episode.
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Wasn't it very early? Because we watched the documentary. of
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course armando galarraga i want to say don larson no now this didn't have multiple
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choice no okay i will take one more guess now just for fun what team are they most known for,
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north side chicago really i don't know the white sock yeah of course it is charlie
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robertson okay I would never have gotten that so I feel okay,
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All right, number 20. All right, okay. I don't know what I'm going to do.
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We're rolling. We're rolling.
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It's fun. It's fun. I like it. It's fun. Good, good, yeah.
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The Tigers lost their first game of the season to Boston, but then reeled off nine wins in a row.
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This pitcher had three of those wins to go 3-0 after just eight Tiger games.
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Who was this young, lucky lefty? Did they tell us what year this was?
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I'm going to say 1968. Will you read that question again? It was worded very strange.
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The Tigers lost their first game of the season to Boston. To Boston.
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But then ruled off nine wins in a row.
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Nine wins in a row. This pitcher had three of those wins to go 3-0 after just eight Tiger games.
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Who was this young lucky lefty? Mickey Lulich?
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No john warden correct that's
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crazy john warden still does the circuit for like
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the 1968 tigers he was a rookie
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he was 21 year old rookie and that's the only year i believe that's the only
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year he played yeah he finished the season for a woman so the obvious answer
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for a lefty is mickey lolich right but i was rolling around i almost led with
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john warden and i would have felt so cool If I had,
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but if I had said John Warden and the answer was Mickey lowly,
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John Goddard buried my head in the ground.
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So it was one of your favorite Tigers. Of course.
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Of course. Big fat lefty. Why not?
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All right. 21 in the 1901, 1902 seasons, the Tigers could not play baseball on which day of the week.
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It's probably Sunday because of the, the Detroit Catholic diocese.
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All right. Nailed it. What year did the Tigers win their first World Series?
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1935. Correct. They lost three in the 19 aughts to the Cubs and the Pirates.
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They lost in 34, and then they won in 35, and they were not favored.
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Can you guess this? Did you know this? The franchise is only 35 years old, too, in 1935?
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Yes. Well, don't guess it. It's math. I know it's math.
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Well, you know, for me, most math is guessing anyway, so that's fair.
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It just seems like a strange coincidence.
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All right. Which team came in second for the AL pennant in 1968?
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Boston. No. They finished fourth. Baltimore. Yes. Okay.
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If I got two guesses, I would be knocking it out of the park right now.
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This actually did have multiple choice.
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Okay, fair enough. But if Boston was on there. Boston is on there.
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Yeah, it would have got me anyway.
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But I came down to Boston. Boston won the pennant in 67. Right.
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The Detroit franchise was the first American League team to go to three consecutive
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World Series from 1907 to 1909.
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As I was just talking about, the three.
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See? Okay, what's the question, though? How many times did they win the World
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Series in that stretch? About zero.
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Unfortunately, in 1935, jersey number five was worn by which Detroit Tigers first baseman? Easy.
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This is easy. Obviously, it's Maglio Ordonez. I'm just kidding.
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It's Hank Greenberg. That dude could mash. That dude was something else.
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All right. 26. Dave Bergman and Willie Hernandez were traded from the Phillies
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to the Tigers late in spring training. and both made major contributions to the success of the team.
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For which two players were they traded?
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There's no multiple choice, no hints, no nothing. Oh, there is multiple choice. Okay, alright.
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How do they do the multiple choice? Is it in pairings of two?
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Or it's in pairings of two. Okay,
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give me the multiple choice because I guarantee you I will get it right.
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Marty Castillo or Steve Kemp? No. Rick Leach and Rupert Jones? No.
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Johnny Grubb and Enos Cabell? Nope.
00:29:34.068 --> 00:29:37.088
Glenn Wilson and John Walkenfuss. Yes.
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So I knew it was Johnny Walkenfuss, but I couldn't remember Glenn Wilson.
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So that's why I needed to know if they were grouped.
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Walkenfuss was a just absolute beloved Detroit Tiger.
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Like a fan favorite type. People were tooked when they made that trade.
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But that trade was hugely instrumental.
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I mean, Willie Hernandez won the Cy Young Award and the MVP that year,
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so it ended up being a good trade, but, yeah, not popular.
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All right. This former Tiger handed the flag from the Tiger Stadium flagpole
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to a Tiger's tri-captain in 1999 after the final game was played at this historic site.
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What was his name? Multiple choice? Multiple choice.
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This former Tiger handed the flag from Tiger Stadium's flagpole to a Tigers
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tri-captain in 1998 time after the final game was played at this historic site.
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Fitterich. What was his name?
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It wasn't Mark Fitterich? No. So then the other one is, I can't remember his
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name, but I believe he was the oldest living Tiger at the time,
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but I cannot think of his name.
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Who was it? Eldon Auker. Eldon Auker.
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And does it say there that he was the oldest living tiger? No, it is.
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An awkwardly sob mariner for the great tigers of the 1930s wrote a book called
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Sleeper Cars on Family Uniform, in which he gave a moving account of this moment.
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We'll have to check that out. I've never, uh, yeah. Oh my gosh,
00:31:14.917 --> 00:31:17.457
this is a repeat. I'm going to skip that one. Well, good.
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For nearly 30 years, one wild tiger stadium hot dog vendor peddled the delicious ballpark Franks.
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With a style all his own, he was affectionately known as Crazy Blank. I don't know.
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Crazy Gus. Crazy Gus. The son Jimmy continued the family tradition and also
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worked as a vendor until they closed the old park.
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Repeat. Who was the first? Okay. When was the first game that Nevin Field played?
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These ones are tricky. I'm going to say 1901. April 20, 19, 12. Okay.
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Got it. That must have been when they moved the, that's probably when they moved
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the home plate and built some grandstands.
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Okay. Denny McLean won 31 games in 1968. Who was the last pitcher or who was
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the last major league pitcher before him to win 30?
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I can't remember. i don't think it's not
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like a household name but i
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don't know i won't get it dizzy
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dean is dizzy dean that's definitely a household name
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um and i feel like i should have known that i think he was part of the the answer
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for the earlier denny mccain yeah i mean he played for the he played for the
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for st louis in the mid-30s so like we i think i think we pitched against him in,
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like in the world series is back then but yeah it's i'll have to i'll have to
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lock that into my memory bank how many players are hit home runs over left field grandstand,
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well this one's kind of a weird they don't emphasize it but it has i have to
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say tiger stadium right how many players so mickey mantle cecil fielder.
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I'm going to say three. Four. Yeah. You want to know the player's names.
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I do. I do want to know the player's names.
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Hold on. Let me think. How many? And one of them that you just said is not right.
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Mickey Mantle or Cecil Fielder? Mickey Mantle. Okay.
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But Cecil Fielder is. Cecil Fielder is one of them. Okay. Give me a minute.
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Give me a minute. That lists all four. It lists all four.
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And is Cecil Fielder the only Tiger? Correct. Yep.
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Babe Ruth,
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Let me do what I had I think we're going too far back Oh are we?
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Alright alright Just read them Herman Killebrew Frank Howard,
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He did play a year for the Tigers At the end of his career That dude was huge Like 6'10,
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and built like a train Mark McGuire Mark McGuire and Cecil Fielder you know
00:34:24.418 --> 00:34:29.118
what Harmon Kilbrew's nickname was like literally they talk about him this way
00:34:29.118 --> 00:34:33.418
they talk about it to his face Harmon Kilbrew's nickname was the fat kid,
00:34:34.378 --> 00:34:40.898
he's not even that fat I mean maybe he was when he was a kid but yeah the fat
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kid I always got a kick out of that we're not gonna read that one.
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We've already answered that one Who has hit the most lifetime home runs as a Tiger?
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Al Kaline What's that number?
00:34:56.398 --> 00:34:59.238
399 And until the day he
00:34:59.238 --> 00:35:05.918
died I said somebody needs to groove him one But he said he didn't care He said
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he never gave it a second thought Like when he retired He wasn't even chasing
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it And I always thought because Denny McLean grooved one Mickey Mantle in his last appearance.
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And that's a funny story. If you ever, you can hear him talking about it.
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It's funny too, because when Mantle talks about it, when Denny McClain grooved
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him for his last home run, he thought it would be his last home run ever.
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And he talks about Bill Freehand, you know, telling him, you know,
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swing and he wouldn't do it because he didn't believe him.
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It was actually Jim Price behind the plate, but you just assume the Tigers.
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It's going to be Bill Freehand, but it wasn't.
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And so, yeah, finally, you know, Denny McClain said, tell him I'm going to throw
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it, you know, chest high.
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And he took it for a strike and
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he's like, what the heck? And so finally Mantle, you know, hits the bomb.
00:35:59.878 --> 00:36:04.698
And so Joe Pepitone comes up next and he looks at Denny McClain and he goes right here.
00:36:06.898 --> 00:36:15.158
And Denny immediately plunked him. yeah so sorry pep you are not mickey mantle,
00:36:16.508 --> 00:36:23.648
superstar second baseman won the AL Rookie of the Year award in 1978 and went
00:36:23.648 --> 00:36:28.648
on to become a five-time all-star before retiring in 1995.
00:36:29.308 --> 00:36:33.648
Superstar is right. That's the most important part.
00:36:34.348 --> 00:36:38.648
Hey, they told us the game was options. Are there options?
00:36:39.448 --> 00:36:43.468
There's definitely a multiple choice one. Is Damian Easley on there? No!
00:36:44.568 --> 00:36:51.108
Just for fun. I want to try just one more that's too funny I don't even know
00:36:51.108 --> 00:36:55.968
who they put on there anyway it's Lou Whitaker of course the other three options
00:36:55.968 --> 00:36:59.048
were Amitrammel Dean Cain,
00:37:00.128 --> 00:37:05.648
and Jose Iglesias alright fun you would think David Easley would have been on.
00:37:08.508 --> 00:37:13.988
Who'd you see the Tigers in the 2012 World Series alright so,
00:37:14.888 --> 00:37:19.468
it's funny i know the answer right obviously and
00:37:19.468 --> 00:37:27.008
that world series sucked and the panda right that fat little third baseman he
00:37:27.008 --> 00:37:35.548
murdered us yeah the best series ever so the giants yeah that was terrible that was not fun,
00:37:36.308 --> 00:37:38.908
that's how the Warriors game film oh no,
00:37:39.928 --> 00:37:46.828
April 30, 1939 Tiger fans watched the final game of which great Yankees career?
00:37:47.388 --> 00:37:49.608
Oh, Lou Gehrig yes, yes.
00:37:52.328 --> 00:37:55.868
Why i know you're waiting for me to have a great story you
00:37:55.868 --> 00:37:59.048
know why you because he had lou gary's disease
00:37:59.048 --> 00:38:01.868
sorry yeah we all do that right
00:38:01.868 --> 00:38:05.528
okay als if you prefer bennett part
00:38:05.528 --> 00:38:08.368
aka tiger stadium was located at the
00:38:08.368 --> 00:38:11.348
famous corner of michigan and trumbull avenues how
00:38:11.348 --> 00:38:14.408
many years the tiger play ball on that
00:38:14.408 --> 00:38:17.308
site i don't know well that's
00:38:17.308 --> 00:38:20.888
it i'm doing years right because obviously
00:38:20.888 --> 00:38:23.688
they played i got it wrong because
00:38:23.688 --> 00:38:30.328
they played some game against columbus in 1896 right and then they closed in
00:38:30.328 --> 00:38:40.408
1999 so you would think it's 104 years no sorry 103 years no how how how long
00:38:40.408 --> 00:38:42.868
Are they going to say 1912?
00:38:43.348 --> 00:38:45.168
They're going to say 99 years.
00:38:46.768 --> 00:38:50.088
They're going to say 1901 to 99.
00:38:50.928 --> 00:38:59.428
See, and that's the answer I would have given if it wasn't for all those other weird questions.
00:39:00.328 --> 00:39:03.268
That's the reason why I did it. That's fair.
00:39:04.728 --> 00:39:10.468
Who are the Tiger's original mascot? The Wolverine. Yeah. Ah, thank you.
00:39:11.648 --> 00:39:16.408
Vindication, sort of. The nickname comes from Michigan's nickname of the Wolverine State.
00:39:16.888 --> 00:39:20.148
Which, of course, makes no sense at all to begin with.
00:39:20.688 --> 00:39:24.768
Oh, man, that was 40 of them. We're going to go to Detroit Tires Prizes.
00:39:25.008 --> 00:39:27.688
Is that 40 questions? You think our listeners are still having fun?
00:39:28.248 --> 00:39:32.908
Why don't you take a minute and tell them about our very special card of the day?
00:39:33.408 --> 00:39:38.268
What is that? Oh, you know. The one I bought? Well, we weren't going to say
00:39:38.268 --> 00:39:44.608
how you got it necessarily, but it's your biggest investment piece to date, right? Yeah, it sure is.
00:39:45.648 --> 00:39:48.968
Tell us. Tell the people. Bought it.
00:39:49.328 --> 00:39:54.128
Procured it. Acquired it. I mean, I don't have it in my possession.
00:39:54.128 --> 00:39:56.888
Right, you don't. And he's got mixed feelings.
00:39:57.088 --> 00:40:00.068
And this is all collectors know this feeling.
00:40:00.528 --> 00:40:03.948
Is you spent up. You spent up on a... I spent up by accident.
00:40:04.828 --> 00:40:08.348
It's it's uh Leo
00:40:08.348 --> 00:40:11.708
DeVries Jose Ramirez International
00:40:11.708 --> 00:40:15.388
Impact Dual Auto number 299
00:40:15.388 --> 00:40:22.168
number 299 beautiful card beautiful card on card autos top 5 player in baseball
00:40:22.168 --> 00:40:26.788
over the last 10 years yep man you get an up and coming prospect very young
00:40:26.788 --> 00:40:32.948
very hot prospect people seem to really love and want and they're trying to collect like.
00:40:34.819 --> 00:40:38.759
A cool card. It's definitely going to be a card. A little bit of buyer's remorse.
00:40:38.979 --> 00:40:43.819
It's buyer's remorse, but I know I need, because I'm getting back into the card game.
00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:47.959
And the cards I got, sure, I might be able to flip one card for,
00:40:47.999 --> 00:40:49.399
I might have bought it for $3.
00:40:49.419 --> 00:40:52.379
I might be able to flip it for $12, $13, $14.
00:40:53.139 --> 00:40:56.239
Who knows? But this card I definitely paid more for.
00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:02.259
And I just, I'm the kind of, I feel like I'm kind of at the top of the market already. Yeah.
00:41:02.959 --> 00:41:07.019
Which is fine. But with any luck, if you've got the cleanest corners,
00:41:07.659 --> 00:41:11.379
you know, if you've got the smoothest surface, if you've got the best autos,
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:17.839
I mean, these premium cards can vary that much in, you know, price. Right.
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:23.919
You know, you might right out of the gate have the best card with the value then being there.
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.279
You might not. But I thought it was cool, you know, because he's only just sort
00:41:28.279 --> 00:41:32.179
of started getting back into collecting because of this podcast.
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:35.259
Right. So for him to make that big purchase, it's like, ah, cool.
00:41:35.459 --> 00:41:38.719
You know, he's, you know, even if you make mistakes, as I told him too,
00:41:38.839 --> 00:41:43.259
I've said on twice now, I've said on the air, we're done. I'm done buying boxes.
00:41:43.379 --> 00:41:45.819
Ronnie's done buying boxes. I'm done buying boxes.
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:51.979
I bought a box yesterday and you know, realistically I took a bigger hit than
00:41:51.979 --> 00:41:53.639
Ronnie will ever take on that card.
00:41:53.819 --> 00:41:58.839
And I pulled some cool stuff, but I took a big risk. I bought the Logo Fractor box.
00:42:00.223 --> 00:42:02.943
Did not come close to getting my money back you know so
00:42:02.943 --> 00:42:05.623
you see my cards i got right now how many do you think i
00:42:05.623 --> 00:42:09.043
have right now like 300 could be i've yeah
00:42:09.043 --> 00:42:13.703
probably between 200 and 300 i know i mean i spent like all night on friday
00:42:13.703 --> 00:42:18.943
night stay up until 230 yeah i blew through over 100 pennies yeah yeah and i
00:42:18.943 --> 00:42:24.603
saw and that wasn't all my cards right and our collection mine might he went
00:42:24.603 --> 00:42:27.763
around He's catching up fast, but I had a little bit of a head start,
00:42:28.183 --> 00:42:35.183
but we focus on, we're looking at numbered cards, auto cards, star rookies,
00:42:36.363 --> 00:42:36.963
short friends.
00:42:37.463 --> 00:42:41.403
And then, you know, we've got some where we are saying, I'll take a flyer,
00:42:41.523 --> 00:42:44.123
right? We've got a lot of players who are taking a flyer on.
00:42:44.383 --> 00:42:49.983
And so I can build lots of cards and, and our,
00:42:50.283 --> 00:42:56.743
both of our collections are kind of built for and primed for some whatnot action
00:42:56.743 --> 00:43:00.163
so we're we're talking we were talking already today about,
00:43:00.663 --> 00:43:03.803
how's that gonna look are we gonna pull that trigger yeah i
00:43:03.803 --> 00:43:07.863
think we should i think we will we're still trying to go through the logistics
00:43:07.863 --> 00:43:12.543
of it but we've got enough where we can do dollar starts you know and if it
00:43:12.543 --> 00:43:16.843
only goes for a dollar yeah no big deal but enough cards that you can throw
00:43:16.843 --> 00:43:21.883
in with a five dollar stack a ten dollar stack all the way up to you know a couple hundred.
00:43:23.203 --> 00:43:30.163
So should be fun I think like Evan said or Big E hey I'm Evan,
00:43:31.023 --> 00:43:36.083
I just like to go by Big E like Big E said you know this is an investment card
00:43:36.083 --> 00:43:40.443
and like I can't get anywhere and like if I'm trying to do this this is gonna
00:43:40.443 --> 00:43:43.823
have to be an investment like I'm I'm looking to not,
00:43:44.303 --> 00:43:48.323
just hoard the cards and just not do anything I'm gonna have to like I wanna
00:43:48.323 --> 00:43:52.083
be able to give it to people or sell it to people that want to...
00:43:52.779 --> 00:43:57.499
Their collection or improve their collection, but I also want to make money on it.
00:43:57.859 --> 00:44:03.859
This is most of my collecting. I've always been a collector and a flipper at the same time.
00:44:04.479 --> 00:44:09.179
90% is I do it for quick flips. You know, I look at it and I say,
00:44:09.259 --> 00:44:17.519
okay, that, that 1961 Ron Santo rookie card, you know, it's buy it now for 25 or best offer.
00:44:17.779 --> 00:44:24.639
It looks like condition wise, it's a $50 card. So I make an offer at $20, win it.
00:44:24.959 --> 00:44:29.079
Now I say that's a $50 card, but I want to move it quick. So now I sell it for
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:34.279
$40, double my money, sell it for $10 less than where it should be.
00:44:34.359 --> 00:44:36.819
And then you just keep moving. You keep moving.
00:44:36.939 --> 00:44:41.339
And then 10 years later, you see that card, which is probably a nine,
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:43.399
sells for like two grand.
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:48.319
And you can't beat yourself up because you took that money, you reinvested it,
00:44:48.319 --> 00:44:52.299
probably made two grand in that 10 year span.
00:44:52.939 --> 00:44:57.839
So, but now I do have a couple, you know, we were looking at my cards and I've got, I don't know.
00:44:57.959 --> 00:45:01.179
It feels like I got 20 numbered Jace Youngs. You do.
00:45:01.339 --> 00:45:05.839
And it's cause I went big on Jace Young at the same time as Parker Meadows.
00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:09.479
And I was telling Ronnie, the Parker Meadows have mostly been flipped,
00:45:09.479 --> 00:45:14.259
you know, and the Jace I've got to wait at least in the, and if he doesn't pay
00:45:14.259 --> 00:45:20.119
off, I think if he does pay off, I think he'll pay off as a Yankee or, uh,
00:45:20.399 --> 00:45:23.819
you know, I have tried to buy some of them on, on the one that happened.
00:45:24.019 --> 00:45:26.259
Like people are buying them up, man. It's actually kind of shocking.
00:45:26.619 --> 00:45:28.339
Yeah. I think they've been overpaying right now.
00:45:28.959 --> 00:45:32.779
It's because of his brother, you know, people know the name and Jace Young is,
00:45:32.979 --> 00:45:35.279
I think he will turn into a great player.
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:39.859
I just haven't been willing to spend the $25 on a card. Exactly.
00:45:41.139 --> 00:45:45.959
The one I've got the auto in the white caps Jersey and that's numbered to 99.
00:45:46.439 --> 00:45:50.139
But I only paid like 20 bucks for that. Right. And it's selling right now for
00:45:50.139 --> 00:45:52.799
about 20 bucks, but it was one. I wanted that one.
00:45:52.939 --> 00:45:55.559
Like it's hometown uniform. You got to love it.
00:45:56.452 --> 00:45:59.672
A little bit of baseball card chat i want to do a little bit more trivia hopefully
00:45:59.672 --> 00:46:04.672
you guys will keep listening yeah i think i think i got it up and one more thing
00:46:04.672 --> 00:46:10.032
about baseball yeah like people talk about pc their personal collection and
00:46:10.032 --> 00:46:13.612
then their selling collection yeah and people are like refuse to like pull cards
00:46:13.612 --> 00:46:17.172
out of their pc itself right i guess well all my cards are.
00:46:18.512 --> 00:46:22.192
Exactly if someone wants i guess what you can have yeah that's what i tell people
00:46:22.192 --> 00:46:25.972
too is like Like if you, if you want to, and I actually was just admitting to
00:46:25.972 --> 00:46:29.212
Ronnie earlier that I currently do the exact opposite of this.
00:46:29.372 --> 00:46:33.952
If I put something up for eBay, I move it. I move it out of sight,
00:46:34.152 --> 00:46:37.172
out of mind. I have one spot where I keep everything that's for sale.
00:46:37.332 --> 00:46:41.512
Cause right now I don't want to consider that. I want to already consider it gone.
00:46:41.892 --> 00:46:45.612
And that way, when it sells, it's just money. Like, Oh, there's money in my
00:46:45.612 --> 00:46:46.712
account. Where'd that come from?
00:46:46.832 --> 00:46:51.352
Ah, nice. But if you want to, you can put your cards, you can put your whole
00:46:51.352 --> 00:46:58.132
collection up at, you know, a 25%, you know, premium, and then just go about
00:46:58.132 --> 00:46:59.692
your day. It's your collection.
00:47:00.172 --> 00:47:04.532
And if it sells, well, you sold it for 25% premium. Great.
00:47:05.112 --> 00:47:08.952
Everybody's happy. But if it doesn't sell, it's just your collection.
00:47:09.092 --> 00:47:12.672
Right. And you can play with it and you can show it to your friends and,
00:47:12.672 --> 00:47:15.732
you know, pick up ladies with it, you know, whatever.
00:47:15.732 --> 00:47:21.512
I mean, I got two cards I accidentally bought this weekend that are technically
00:47:21.512 --> 00:47:25.752
going to be my investments.
00:47:25.992 --> 00:47:30.532
But really, they're going to be my PC because they're two cool cards that, like, yeah.
00:47:31.111 --> 00:47:34.291
Think most people are gonna have well i like to pc the cards
00:47:34.291 --> 00:47:37.131
to where you spend 150 on a
00:47:37.131 --> 00:47:40.231
box and you pull a 35 card right right
00:47:40.231 --> 00:47:43.211
awesome but you're not getting your money back
00:47:43.211 --> 00:47:45.931
so pc it and be like oh this card
00:47:45.931 --> 00:47:49.431
is especially meaningful to me but why because
00:47:49.431 --> 00:47:52.311
i took 110 hit on it
00:47:52.311 --> 00:47:55.271
you know that's why i just nearly bought a
00:47:55.271 --> 00:47:58.211
50 dollar paul skeins rookie card
00:47:58.211 --> 00:48:01.211
number to 50 yeah that's a real happy accident i think
00:48:01.211 --> 00:48:03.871
in the end that's gonna be nice it's gonna
00:48:03.871 --> 00:48:06.711
be a nice card yeah for sure like well i
00:48:06.711 --> 00:48:10.131
do want one dot if i try to drive you fall asleep just
00:48:10.131 --> 00:48:13.611
rubbing your thumb i just try to drive the place off don't admit
00:48:13.611 --> 00:48:17.051
to that it almost makes me dislike you and i
00:48:17.051 --> 00:48:20.031
know you very well like people
00:48:20.031 --> 00:48:22.851
people who know a card's worth a
00:48:22.851 --> 00:48:25.731
certain amount a dollar a month no i agree it is
00:48:25.731 --> 00:48:28.751
really frustrating yeah like those
00:48:28.751 --> 00:48:31.311
guys that are trying to say well screw up we're gonna
00:48:31.311 --> 00:48:34.191
put out for three dollars yep cool i'm gonna also
00:48:34.191 --> 00:48:37.171
i'm gonna bid it up where it should probably should as
00:48:37.171 --> 00:48:40.151
long as you pay your tab every time then there's
00:48:40.151 --> 00:48:44.031
really nothing wrong with it no you know but if you get caught with your hand
00:48:44.031 --> 00:48:48.851
in the fire and you're like don't pay or you ask for a refund i just want i
00:48:48.851 --> 00:48:54.191
never then i'm gonna break your knuckles even with the j-ram j-ram car i said
00:48:54.191 --> 00:48:59.371
i said you know what sucked it up i sucked it up i said i'm just gonna deal with it.
00:49:00.331 --> 00:49:04.711
That's the right answer it is from a seller too that i see all over that i'm
00:49:04.711 --> 00:49:09.151
in the team groups with i just can't i don't i don't have the balls of doing
00:49:09.151 --> 00:49:13.651
well i popped into i opened up whatnot and i was like you have one friend in
00:49:13.651 --> 00:49:17.611
this and it was my favorite guy what's his name with Rippity-Doo-Dah. Yep.
00:49:18.051 --> 00:49:21.671
Rippity-Doo-Dah. Follow Rip. Big E freaking fit in one car.
00:49:22.371 --> 00:49:24.871
He knows I was trying to go I did it on purpose.
00:49:25.791 --> 00:49:29.691
I was like I was driving. I wasn't even at home. I was driving.
00:49:29.851 --> 00:49:30.871
Don't admit that either.
00:49:31.231 --> 00:49:34.351
You're going to lose you're losing fans left and right.
00:49:35.711 --> 00:49:39.611
Was just having fun i saw he was in there and i had just told him we had actually
00:49:39.611 --> 00:49:45.311
like set some ground rules for like not bidding against each other exactly the
00:49:45.311 --> 00:49:51.351
colton couser pops up and he was one ronnie bends i bid immediately so then
00:49:51.351 --> 00:49:54.211
when he when he won it i was like oh you punk,
00:49:55.231 --> 00:50:01.091
and rippity dude i was like oh hey hey hey very nice he was handling it the
00:50:01.091 --> 00:50:05.191
way he should have And I was like, I said, oh, no, that's my BFF. We're friends.
00:50:05.891 --> 00:50:09.631
And then he started chuckling. But we really like Ripa-dee-doo-dah.
00:50:10.111 --> 00:50:13.951
He does a really good job. I love it. He don't care if the car sells.
00:50:14.571 --> 00:50:20.211
He don't care at all. He's very laid back. And I'll be like, no bidders? Okay.
00:50:21.511 --> 00:50:25.771
All right, sweet. He's in a strip right now where I've seen almost every car
00:50:25.771 --> 00:50:26.671
he's been selling lately.
00:50:27.031 --> 00:50:30.551
So I've been buying a lot less for him. Right. whereas for the
00:50:30.551 --> 00:50:33.891
first week like i got new stuff from oh yeah every other
00:50:33.891 --> 00:50:37.611
day everything's new i'm like gee yep
00:50:37.611 --> 00:50:40.351
no but shout out shout out to
00:50:40.351 --> 00:50:43.251
ripity do that i wish he did the tear system and i get cute
00:50:43.251 --> 00:50:45.991
but he doesn't do that yeah i think there's a lot
00:50:45.991 --> 00:50:49.551
of you know i think he's still building up his leg and
00:50:49.551 --> 00:50:53.271
once you get like like we're talking we haven't done anything yet because you
00:50:53.271 --> 00:50:56.811
know obviously without doing it you don't have the hang of it i think as people
00:50:56.811 --> 00:51:01.151
get more comfortable and make more money you know then they start to lean into
00:51:01.151 --> 00:51:05.371
some of the you know the tier systems the bronze the silver the you know and
00:51:05.371 --> 00:51:08.111
the buyers giveaways and stuff like that so,
00:51:08.591 --> 00:51:12.011
uh anyway let's do a little bit more trivia and then and then we'll get out
00:51:12.011 --> 00:51:17.631
of here all right let's get back let's get back to the old interwebs just please.
00:51:19.714 --> 00:51:25.674
I'm smoking a crowned head juarez and uh ronnie's smoking a liga privada t52.
00:51:27.014 --> 00:51:30.474
Falling out all right i'm just
00:51:30.474 --> 00:51:33.334
gonna do this one because it was easy yeah i
00:51:33.334 --> 00:51:37.674
can go to a website now and maybe choose like different places i want to be
00:51:37.674 --> 00:51:42.934
the easiest way easy for you this is a tiger's jersey trivia quiz oh boy i don't
00:51:42.934 --> 00:51:47.454
know how i'll do this is this is interesting i like it You already did this
00:51:47.454 --> 00:51:50.874
one I'm not going to do that one It's all multiple choice,
00:51:51.474 --> 00:51:56.934
Don't give me the multiple choice unless I ask for it Unless I ask for it every
00:51:56.934 --> 00:52:01.754
time We'll just roll into it The first two we've already answered in the first
00:52:01.754 --> 00:52:10.154
part Number three Jersey number 16 Was worn by which Detroit Tigers pitcher During the 1944 season,
00:52:10.874 --> 00:52:15.434
Holy crap Schoolboy Ro Hold on,
00:52:16.554 --> 00:52:19.454
No, I know what it is. It's not schoolboy, Ro.
00:52:20.754 --> 00:52:24.034
Why don't you give me the answers? I don't like this.
00:52:24.974 --> 00:52:28.674
God. Is this one where you have to, like, it tells you at the end of the quiz
00:52:28.674 --> 00:52:32.674
if you got it right around? I think so. All right, screw that. What year did they say?
00:52:33.154 --> 00:52:36.654
1944. I bet it was hell new house. It was hell new house. That's why I,
00:52:37.354 --> 00:52:40.514
Prince hell. I was like, damn it.
00:52:40.874 --> 00:52:44.474
It's starting to piss me off. Yeah, that's not cool. As soon as I guessed,
00:52:44.514 --> 00:52:49.414
I wanted it to be Something a little bit But yeah, like I said I don't multiple
00:52:49.414 --> 00:52:51.694
choice, I just want Straight answers,
00:52:53.860 --> 00:52:54.420
Leave it to us straight.
00:52:56.680 --> 00:53:01.180
Sorry, just bear with me for once. Yeah, we will. Lou Whitaker wore number one.
00:53:01.680 --> 00:53:05.360
Charlie Garinger wore number two. Alan Trammell wore number three.
00:53:06.060 --> 00:53:09.320
I might have to put on the internet something different.
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Just Google up something. Google something up here. In the meantime,
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I see this card left over from our last time. We got Will Clark and Raphael Palmeiro.
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We had a really good discussion talking about those. Don't get distracted,
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all right? I know. I'm talking to the listeners.
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I forget how I found that card. I found that card stuck up in the window or
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something. I was like, what the hell is that?
00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:37.620
I gave it the old toss. The old toss last time.
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I think I like this one. This one gives me the answer. It's still a multiple
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choice, but it gives me the answer. I don't have to scroll through or find it.
00:53:45.980 --> 00:53:49.640
In what Florida city do the Tigers play their home spring training games?
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A pause so that the listeners can get all
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excited lakeland at joker marchant stadium hopefully big e and i will be at
00:54:01.520 --> 00:54:04.920
we've got we've got a plan this spring there's a couple of dates for a couple
00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:08.920
of things that might work out nicely we'll see and we will for sure broadcast
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live yes i have four weeks of pto.
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My pto resets end of march so
00:54:16.240 --> 00:54:19.100
mine's at the beginning of february okay and i've
00:54:19.100 --> 00:54:22.820
got jury duty i just got freaking job duty so it's
00:54:22.820 --> 00:54:28.160
not that bad of what people think it nah so i did it a couple weeks ago a couple
00:54:28.160 --> 00:54:32.680
months ago i had it for the city like a year and a half ago and that was a breeze
00:54:32.680 --> 00:54:37.720
but this is for the county gotta go downtown gr and oh this might be a federal
00:54:37.720 --> 00:54:39.880
chase huh yeah hopefully they don't pick me,
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yeah well i will give you a piece of advice don't
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be a jerk i know i know better because when
00:54:47.540 --> 00:54:50.520
i was that dude the judge was so mad he said
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you're excused but i should make you sit in the audience for this whole thing
00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:02.400
i was like oh boy i was getting ready to do the same thing if i got called up
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:09.800
now i'm like well thank god i play it cool i don't want to be there but i will do my duty.
00:55:10.900 --> 00:55:14.620
Which player won the American League Cy Young Award in 1968?
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Denny McClain. Not John McClain. Nope. Not John McClain. You are correct.
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Which Detroit Tiger was MVP of the American League in 1937?
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Mickey Cochran. No.
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Charlie Garinger. You're right. It is Garinger. Yep, yep, yep.
00:55:40.600 --> 00:55:47.780
Which baseball player for the Detroit Tigers was MVP of the American League in 1940?
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Hank Greenberg. Correct. You want to hear the choices?
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Joe Dimashio was wonderful. Sure. How cute. I would not have guessed that. I promise.
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:06.520
As a warrior, you go back to school. They give you four choices.
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The two are obviously. That is one of those instances where which Detroit Tigers
00:56:14.160 --> 00:56:16.920
was MVP of the American League in 1945?
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Luehauser correct an option with ted williams okay teddy ball game why not good
00:56:26.278 --> 00:56:30.398
nicknames in there teddy ball game prince style who else were the options let's
00:56:30.398 --> 00:56:35.358
see if we can do the nicknames marty marion i don't even know who that is mark cooper.
00:56:37.998 --> 00:56:44.358
Wow which baseball player for the detroit targets was mvp of the american league in 1984,
00:56:46.058 --> 00:56:54.258
guillermo willy hernandez you got that right who hit a team leading 27 home
00:56:54.258 --> 00:56:58.698
runs for the 2004 tigers oh my god.
00:57:00.618 --> 00:57:04.978
This is the most obscure question
00:57:04.978 --> 00:57:07.958
the answer is fine it makes sense but
00:57:07.958 --> 00:57:10.878
the question make sure my years and everything i
00:57:10.878 --> 00:57:13.978
read i've already proven my years can get shaky is it
00:57:13.978 --> 00:57:17.118
pudge no okay we're talking
00:57:17.118 --> 00:57:20.558
about like awful tigers baseball
00:57:20.558 --> 00:57:25.658
you're out here that was bad back then i mean that was it's not bobby hickinson
00:57:25.658 --> 00:57:34.778
is no tony clark no he was gone by then 2004 you want a hint dean palmer no
00:57:34.778 --> 00:57:39.038
i will give you all right give me a hint you should know this with this hat sure Well,
00:57:39.138 --> 00:57:43.358
I should know this because we watched a lot of – He is – In the worst years.
00:57:43.778 --> 00:57:50.298
He works for MLB Network and – Pena? Yeah. After the money ball trade.
00:57:51.138 --> 00:57:54.258
After the money ball trade, Pena. Hilarious.
00:57:55.498 --> 00:58:01.958
Who averaged – Carlos Pena, for those of you. Yeah, Carlos Pena. Plakata.
00:58:03.798 --> 00:58:09.618
Who averaged a 334 to lead the Tigers in batting in 2004?
00:58:13.338 --> 00:58:21.578
Wow! If you want to go to a bar, you're the host, and you want to win all the money.
00:58:22.038 --> 00:58:28.358
2004, this isn't fake. This isn't fake. You worked really hard to forget some of these years.
00:58:31.038 --> 00:58:36.118
Jiminy Crickets what position did they play well I give you that here that's
00:58:36.118 --> 00:58:44.558
not fair so it is Pudge yeah you're right it's not fair but I wasn't going to guess Pudge again,
00:58:46.678 --> 00:58:50.218
alright Yvonne Rodriguez he really led the,
00:58:52.338 --> 00:58:57.338
alright who won the most games pitching for the Detroit Finals,
00:58:58.254 --> 00:59:04.054
I believe that that answer is Mike Marath.
00:59:05.274 --> 00:59:11.714
No. Bondo? No. Golly, 2004. Suck an egg.
00:59:13.974 --> 00:59:20.774
You like to wear goggles a lot. Nate McClough? No. Nate something. Yep.
00:59:21.554 --> 00:59:25.754
Nate. Yeah, as soon as you said, they called him Shrek. What the heck was his
00:59:25.754 --> 00:59:27.294
last name? No, Nate Robertson.
00:59:27.414 --> 00:59:30.394
Nate Robertson. not who i was thinking not who
00:59:30.394 --> 00:59:33.494
i was thinking but yeah yeah yeah he did the gum rally
00:59:33.494 --> 00:59:41.474
he was the one with the gum rally i like robertson who is 2000 tigers who on
00:59:41.474 --> 00:59:52.194
the 2000 tigers knocked in 100 runs during the regular season one gone no uh higginson yep yeah.
00:59:53.274 --> 00:59:57.354
When was Juan Gonzalez, like 98, 99? Yeah, he was.
00:59:58.274 --> 01:00:03.394
I can't believe Higginson was. I forget he even existed.
01:00:03.614 --> 01:00:08.094
Yeah, I know. Like, that was such a dark time. I almost bought a lot on eBay
01:00:08.094 --> 01:00:10.594
because there was a couple of Bobby Higginson cards.
01:00:10.794 --> 01:00:12.734
I was like, I just wanted them. Absolutely.
01:00:13.354 --> 01:00:16.414
I occasionally go searching. Like, he was a pirate to watch.
01:00:16.694 --> 01:00:21.354
Oh, he was fun. And he probably would have been a legit star somewhere else,
01:00:21.414 --> 01:00:25.854
but he was just – and he would have been like a two or three guy on him.
01:00:25.914 --> 01:00:28.514
But, like, you look at the Yankees now, and they've got eight,
01:00:28.514 --> 01:00:30.474
you know, superstars. Right.
01:00:30.634 --> 01:00:34.154
Like, Bobby Hickinson would have been – he would have gotten a lot more love.
01:00:34.534 --> 01:00:38.554
He would have been fine on that Yankee. Like, he just had a – he had a freaking
01:00:38.554 --> 01:00:40.434
career team. It was a bad time.
01:00:40.594 --> 01:00:46.714
Like, I don't think anybody could carry – Jeter could have came to that team.
01:00:46.894 --> 01:00:51.234
Right. And I don't think he would have had a career like he did. Facts.
01:00:51.814 --> 01:00:55.594
Or he would have had the same career, but it wouldn't have gotten the same fanfare.
01:00:56.494 --> 01:01:00.534
What position did Chris Shelton play in 2006? First base.
01:01:00.914 --> 01:01:05.474
Yeah. He ended up, he was leading the league in home runs. He was going home
01:01:05.474 --> 01:01:07.234
run for home run with Albert Pujols.
01:01:07.634 --> 01:01:11.234
Until they both got to like nine in the first week and a half.
01:01:11.394 --> 01:01:13.594
And then I think Chris Shelton ended with nine.
01:01:14.294 --> 01:01:18.594
He didn't finish him very much more. But it was crazy. That year was nuts.
01:01:19.714 --> 01:01:25.654
Which Detroit Tiger, whose career spanned from 53 to 74, and who played the
01:01:25.654 --> 01:01:31.454
entire 71 season with no ears, was the first player ever to win a Golden Glove
01:01:31.454 --> 01:01:32.954
at two different positions?
01:01:33.434 --> 01:01:36.114
From 53 to 74? Yep.
01:01:37.594 --> 01:01:40.874
One in left field yeah okay line
01:01:40.874 --> 01:01:43.534
yeah of course i was just trying to think you know i
01:01:43.534 --> 01:01:46.674
don't think he ever played center or did he win it at first base
01:01:46.674 --> 01:01:49.694
he ended up you know he played some first anyway
01:01:49.694 --> 01:01:52.554
yeah okay yeah i don't they don't give me the position but yeah
01:01:52.554 --> 01:01:56.974
he definitely that's interesting people would talk a lot more about al k line
01:01:56.974 --> 01:02:01.474
in right field if it wasn't for roberto clemente right because everything that
01:02:01.474 --> 01:02:05.674
and i remember you know coaching soccer i had like pretty much the two best
01:02:05.674 --> 01:02:10.534
players in the history of this school played at the same time.
01:02:10.814 --> 01:02:15.174
And so he only talked about the one where both players were breaking records.
01:02:15.174 --> 01:02:16.854
One was just doing it better.
01:02:17.254 --> 01:02:20.594
And so that's what Al Kaline was to Roberto Clemente.
01:02:20.734 --> 01:02:25.694
Al Kaline had an incredible arm, but Clemente had an even more incredible arm.
01:02:25.874 --> 01:02:26.994
He had incredible range.
01:02:27.214 --> 01:02:30.714
He had incredible everything. He won a ton of gold gloves, all-stars.
01:02:30.994 --> 01:02:34.534
Yeah, Al Kaline. You're breaking my records, right, Al? Probably.
01:02:36.094 --> 01:02:40.734
Which is a while. I only played one year at that position too.
01:02:41.394 --> 01:02:45.234
Yeah, but anything worth doing is worth doing right. That's what I was saying.
01:02:45.894 --> 01:02:47.394
And you were always mad at me.
01:02:48.174 --> 01:02:50.594
I was always mad at everybody.
01:02:51.534 --> 01:02:55.834
You did not like me without the playing sweeper. I liked you fine.
01:02:56.014 --> 01:02:58.954
I liked your style per se.
01:02:59.774 --> 01:03:03.434
So you keep your butt back here where it belongs. I just want to score a goal.
01:03:04.954 --> 01:03:11.034
All right. Anyway, that's good stuff. What was Ty Kyle suspended for in 1912
01:03:11.034 --> 01:03:15.894
to let his Tigers teammates boycott a game in sympathy?
01:03:17.094 --> 01:03:23.474
Sympathy with Ty Kyle? Wow, that's almost unheard of. That's got to be sliding in spikes up.
01:03:24.514 --> 01:03:28.854
It wasn't for going into the stands and beating up an onlooker, was it? It was.
01:03:29.574 --> 01:03:35.074
See, this is very disappointing to me because the way I understand it is the
01:03:35.074 --> 01:03:37.134
onlooker was of African-American...
01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:44.500
Bums me out that his teammates would stand in solidarity with him.
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:48.000
I would rather they stood in solidarity with him for like, oh,
01:03:48.020 --> 01:03:49.860
I didn't really go spikes up.
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:54.180
But if you really went in the stands and beat up. It was all 1912. Exactly.
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:56.380
Still not a good look.
01:03:57.640 --> 01:04:04.500
Yeah. In July of 2005, Kenny Rogers was suspended for doing what?
01:04:05.100 --> 01:04:11.700
Did they punch a cameraman? shoving shoved a cameraman yeah can he which Detroit
01:04:11.700 --> 01:04:22.000
Tiger was the only one that pitched a no hitter between 59 and 2007 between 59 and 2007 Bunning,
01:04:23.080 --> 01:04:29.740
no okay say it again who which Detroit Tiger was the only one to pitch a no
01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:37.300
hitter between 59 and 2007 oh Verlanders was in 06 Verlanders It was in 08.
01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:40.680
It was in 08, so it's not Verlander. It's not Verlander. It's not even often.
01:04:41.080 --> 01:04:43.800
Crazy. Okay, so there is. It's multiple choice. Multiple choice.
01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:49.020
But you guessed one of the options. One of the options. So they tried to trick us with bunning.
01:04:49.680 --> 01:04:52.080
I don't want it yet. Give me just a second.
01:04:53.300 --> 01:04:56.820
I'm surprised you remember all this. I'm not trying to disparage you.
01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:00.860
No, like I said, there are certain things. I'm not crying like I was at the beginning,
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.740
but there are some things where when you're on this side of it,
01:05:04.740 --> 01:05:15.440
like any blank spot or any blind spot just was it closer to to 2006 i was closer it was further back.
01:05:16.180 --> 01:05:20.080
50 51 is it hell new hauser no george
01:05:20.080 --> 01:05:23.300
mullins no i don't know jack morris
01:05:23.300 --> 01:05:26.380
oh freaking is that one of our yeah i
01:05:26.380 --> 01:05:29.460
just favorite yeah i don't i don't
01:05:29.460 --> 01:05:32.380
like jack actually i know he pitched it on April
01:05:32.380 --> 01:05:35.620
7th April 7th 1984 I'll try
01:05:35.620 --> 01:05:38.800
to do my math I think it's like like almost dead
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:42.200
smack in the middle yeah yeah that's embarrassing I
01:05:42.200 --> 01:05:45.100
know obviously I know Jack Morris threw a
01:05:45.100 --> 01:05:48.020
no-hitter that year it was just I I
01:05:48.020 --> 01:05:50.940
wanted to be close to 51 or to
01:05:50.940 --> 01:05:53.760
oh so yeah that's on
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:56.680
me Jack Morris Jack the cat he one
01:05:56.680 --> 01:05:59.460
time said a lady tried to interview him in the locker room and
01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:02.440
he said uh well actually i won't repeat it but
01:06:02.440 --> 01:06:05.460
he's look it up look it up he's just
01:06:05.460 --> 01:06:10.740
not a good dude we're gonna talk about it after all right
01:06:10.740 --> 01:06:13.800
who was the second player in detroit
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:16.800
tigers history to hit 400 or better
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:23.180
during a single season who was the second player yes harry heilman yes yeah
01:06:23.180 --> 01:06:28.580
ty cobb was first obviously yes which was the name of the detroit tigers home
01:06:28.580 --> 01:06:34.260
field immediately before it was named Tiger Stadium immediately before it was Briggs yep.
01:06:35.137 --> 01:06:40.697
O'Briggs who bought it from Navin. Anyway, I think that's right.
01:06:41.097 --> 01:06:44.417
Who became the owner of all the Detroit Tigers in 1992?
01:06:45.277 --> 01:06:50.097
Illich. Pizza man. Bought it from the pizza man. Michael Illich.
01:06:50.257 --> 01:06:52.537
Mike Illich. Little Caesars owner.
01:06:52.777 --> 01:06:55.097
Bought it from the Domino's owner. John Fetzer.
01:06:55.637 --> 01:06:59.337
Which Detroit Tigers player was nicknamed the bird?
01:06:59.697 --> 01:07:02.737
Mark Fidrich. I met Mark Fidrich
01:07:02.737 --> 01:07:05.397
twice and that dude is a cool was a
01:07:05.397 --> 01:07:08.297
cool dude passed away terribly sad story love
01:07:08.297 --> 01:07:11.417
the picture though him and big dude yeah it's a great picture it's
01:07:11.417 --> 01:07:14.137
iconic i i sent ronnie a
01:07:14.137 --> 01:07:17.717
picture i found on the internet a while ago of him and his truck the
01:07:17.717 --> 01:07:21.557
truck unfortunately that killed him but yeah
01:07:21.557 --> 01:07:24.737
mark fidrich was the most famous baseball player
01:07:24.737 --> 01:07:28.577
for a year of any baseball player ever yep unheard
01:07:28.577 --> 01:07:31.537
of and cover of rolling stone i believe he's still the only
01:07:31.537 --> 01:07:34.257
baseball player to ever be on the cover of
01:07:34.257 --> 01:07:37.877
rolling stone yeah crazy rich
01:07:37.877 --> 01:07:43.157
detroit tell your mlb hall of famous spent four years serving his country in
01:07:43.157 --> 01:07:48.637
world war ii that sounds like hank greenberg yep man he gave so much and as
01:07:48.637 --> 01:07:54.257
a jewish ball player it was very important to him he wanted very badly to be a part of that.
01:07:55.717 --> 01:08:01.817
And randy johnson's 1990 no hitter against the tigers how many batters did he
01:08:01.817 --> 01:08:08.077
walk randy johnson yeah a bunch i bet i would say it's really high like nine
01:08:08.077 --> 01:08:12.237
less than that less than that six yep yeah okay,
01:08:13.532 --> 01:08:22.352
guesses and i'll set the world on fire man how much
01:08:22.352 --> 01:08:25.752
more do we got yeah we're probably about there i'll give you three more let's
01:08:25.752 --> 01:08:30.152
do three more i'm gonna i'm gonna make it my goal to get all three of these
01:08:30.152 --> 01:08:36.452
don't pick anything special not do that one just as i said sorry that was easy
01:08:36.452 --> 01:08:42.272
oh it's too easy it was too easy i'm a all right that was too easy we just talked about.
01:08:44.532 --> 01:08:47.192
This one's fun because i don't know if i
01:08:47.192 --> 01:08:49.992
would have guessed this one uh yeah we did do this one already
01:08:49.992 --> 01:08:52.932
who left the major leagues with 51 home runs
01:08:52.932 --> 01:08:55.692
as a tiger in 1890 we did this we did
01:08:55.692 --> 01:09:01.212
do that one big daddy sess yep only two
01:09:01.212 --> 01:09:04.272
baseball players in the history of baseball have ended their careers
01:09:04.272 --> 01:09:07.232
with 318 home runs effort
01:09:07.232 --> 01:09:11.072
i gotta have to one of them is prince fielder
01:09:11.072 --> 01:09:14.812
and the other is cecil fielder how about that that's
01:09:14.812 --> 01:09:18.672
pretty neat uh who okay
01:09:18.672 --> 01:09:24.692
let's go sorry like we really are rolling into stuff that we already did well
01:09:24.692 --> 01:09:29.192
that's a good indication that we're probably at the end but i do want my final
01:09:29.192 --> 01:09:33.172
three we are at the end of the quiz though well google something completely
01:09:33.172 --> 01:09:38.612
random you know just ask me a question off the top of your head and see if i know it.
01:09:39.572 --> 01:09:48.092
All right hold on i'm coming yeah i can't uh i'm just waiting for some trivia over here,
01:09:48.972 --> 01:09:52.392
and the listeners they're dying for the final three dying
01:09:52.392 --> 01:09:55.232
for the dying for the final three they stuck with us
01:09:55.232 --> 01:09:58.352
this long everybody's having such a good time you're
01:09:58.352 --> 01:10:01.172
having i hear some people are screaming like more than
01:10:01.172 --> 01:10:04.252
three more than three but yeah we're
01:10:04.252 --> 01:10:07.352
gonna leave it at three more let's do three we're gonna
01:10:07.352 --> 01:10:11.552
leave it at three more let's go
01:10:11.552 --> 01:10:18.112
i'm gonna shut it down here in a minute all right let's start shutting what's
01:10:18.112 --> 01:10:23.132
going on we'll see if i can think of anything just a good way to wrap it up
01:10:23.132 --> 01:10:27.452
here unfortunately it just it's too many other repeats yeah,
01:10:28.412 --> 01:10:33.832
If only we had stopped three questions ago and said, hey, these are the final three.
01:10:34.292 --> 01:10:39.532
I found a quiz, but I couldn't figure out the answers without me having to do another. Exactly.
01:10:40.132 --> 01:10:44.052
No, that was good. That was fun. I hope everybody had as much fun as we did.
01:10:44.532 --> 01:10:47.692
This is, of course, the Biggie and Ronnie show.
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We talk about whatever the heck we want. We sure do. And you love it.
01:10:53.212 --> 01:10:55.492
So we'll be back in a week or two.
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Look forward to it alright see ya peace my mouse isn't working and we don't
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edit so this is the Big E and Randy show.