And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050.

Online, the big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Ira, Wynentrop, on the other side.

And so, Ira, we talked the other day to John Marosi.

Great, great resource.

John is when it comes to anytime we want to talk red wings and certainly we want to talk tigers.

He is an encyclopedia.

And he said something about the Kevin McGonigal signing.

You remember we having a discussion about what is the rush?

Why don't you just wait a way to spell spell to get this, to try to get this deal done?

Because it's not like he is not under team control for the foreseeable future. Why don't you wait to see if the bloom comes off the row?

Someone, there has to be a reversion to the mean on some level, right?

No guy just comes into the majors and just rakes from start to finish, do they?

And you watch this kid, man.

And the way that John explained, he said, listen, you weren't able to get the, uh, the extension years for

Terek School because you didn't, you didn't bet early. You can, sure, you can look at the examples where

you, where you, where you bet early and lost like Colt Keith.

Like, okay, that didn't work out.

But that doesn't mean that it was the way I took it.

That doesn't mean that it's the wrong decision to take that gamble if you're the Tigers.

Because the opposite end of the spectrum is Terrick Scoople.

And what if that dude winds up being a guy?

You're getting them way cheaper than he's going to be if he winds up hitting free agency,

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