Uh, at least you didn't include the whistle in there.

Thank God.

Rico on vacation, if you want Tiger Talk and my bold proclamation,

Odyssey.com, rewind.

Kenny, I don't do this to anger you.

I don't do this to anger fans.

But, man, as optimistic and positive as I was about the Tigers to open the show

as negative as I'm about to be about this.

The Elliott Friedman Report on Steve Iserman.

Whoa, buddy, I'm going to read it to you.

No editorial.

I'm just going to read it.

And I'm going to give you my thoughts.

Then I'll probably turn my microphone off and just tell Kenny, take it to four o'clock.

Elliot Friedman writes the following. I think he had some interest in Arvinson. He ended up in Boston.

I heard the wings liked Mason Marshman, ended up in Seattle.

So there were some things that Eiserman wanted to do, but he wasn't able to do.

Friedman believes the current direction of the Red Wings will be hard to sell to diehard fans of the Red Wings.

I challenged that point.

There's plenty of bathwater drinkers in

this down. It's a hard sell in Detroit. It really is. It's been too long without the playoffs.

The thing about Eisenman is he believes in himself. Even if nobody else believes in what he's doing,

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